A Hotel's 'Symbolic' Guest Room

Where: Albrecht-Achilles Str. 58, Berlin, Germany, 10709

12/08/2006 at 4:53 PM
Tags: Art Hotels, Odd Hotels, Berlin Hotel Reviews

And we thought spending a night in the dizzying black and white rooms at the Night Hotel were bad enough. But now we find the Symbol Room at the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin.

Actually, all of the 31 rooms here are pretty crazy. Funny Town has descriptions and pictures of all them, from the Orange room to the Castle room (which pairs with the Dwarves room), to the Mirror room (heh, heh) to Grandma's room and to the Table room, where your bed and desk are atop a giant table.

Each room was created by artist Lars Stroschen and the hotel asks that you remember that while you are staying there, you are living in a piece of art. Therefore, be careful of what you touch:

But however some of the materials are a lot more sensitive than usual: the plexiglas is getting easyly scratches, the same it is with or the dark and intense wall-colours when you slide your bags upon them - only to take two examples.

That is the nature of these materials and you cannot change it - except you make a boring hotel. If you are becoming guest of the for Propeller Island City Lodge we like to ask you to keep this difference in mind and to move with some care within that artwork.

So if you break it, you just might have to buy it.