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Iron Horse Hotel Artwork :: Milwaukee's Next Top Models?

Where: 500 West Florida Street [map], Milwaukee, WI, United States, 53204

July 21, 2008 at 2:30 PM | 0 Comments

HOTELS Mag's Adam Kirby recently scored a tour of the soon-to-open Harley-Davidson-themed Iron Horse Hotel and was totally blown away, saying, "as someone who's never so much as sat on a motorcycle, let alone ridden one: this is a hotel I can't wait to stay at."

What really stood out to him, though, was the local artwork featured inside the 102 guestrooms.

Photographer Charles Dwyer was commissioned to produce mixed-media murals to cover entire walls in each guest room. Out to challenge the classic "stereotypes" of Milwaukee women (what? They're different than L.A. girls?), he photographed all typed of Milwaukee ladies - not professional models - and printed the shots in sepia tone on archival canvas.

Each of the 102 guestrooms features a unique Milwaukee woman covering an entire wall, photographed in sexy (not trashy) poses.

These shots are more beautiful and tasteful than 98% of the America's Next Top Model photos - are you listening, Tyra?

One more photo after the jump.