HotelChatter

Down in Mama Shelter's restaurant-bar (featuring communal digital tables), iMacs fulfill more of an arts and entertainment role as "iBooths":

This is a solution (also using the iMac) that allows visitors to take "instant" pictures and see them distributed in the lobby and rooms. Conceived and realized for Mama Shelter by DirectStreams in collaboration with Jeremie Trigano, iBooth is simple and fun and offers everyone the opportunity to become part of the history of the place and its decor by leaving a sign of their stay at the hotel. In the middle of the [restaurant] tables, columns display screens where you can put up announcements to swap, meet, discover or just to dream.

So, like, it's a social network type thing and a photobooth that allows guests to turn themselves into the art that decorates the hotel, right? How meta.

And then there's the design. On her newly-completed website, Mama Shelter seems to boast some of the nuttiest concepts we've seen outta Starck yet: besides lamps fashioned from Chewbacca masks (how much geekier can you get than Star Wars?), we see crazy-patterned in-room carpeting, concrete, unfinished-looking walls, and see-through desk chairs. Yup.

Check out more photos of miss Mama here.