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More Detes on the Artist Designed Hotel

Where: 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 1J6

Since we last hit up the Gladstone Hotel, we learned about the many different suites within the hotel.

Now the Globe and Mail is reporting on some other features within this decidely anti-boutique hotel.

The hand-operated elevator is still in action, but we learn there is a room by a felt artist with "small, sensual undulations on the wall." (Huh?) There's also a room with hand-painted Chinoiserie paper with some characters wearing the CN Tower for a hat.

The head designer, Christina Zeidler, who's family owns the hotel, said boutique hotels have become standardized and that she was trying to create a living art culture at the Gladstone:

That's what we asked the artists and designers -- pushing the balance between what they wanted to do and allowing that they don't have to take over your life.... I'd like to think there's a movement away from chain hotels.

She also defined the hotel's target audience as anybody "looking to buck Starbucks, sameness and a globalized lifestyle checklist."

Sounds great! Oops, we just ran out of our half-caf, no-whip, grande skim mocha latte. Be right back!

Related Stories:
· Anything but Standard Rooms [Globe and Mail]
· Gladstone Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]