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The Clift Hotel Takes the Minimalist Approach

Where: 495 Geary St [map], San Francisco, CA, United States, 94102

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

You know, there are a lot of words we use frequently when we're describing our favorite hotel room views. "Killer" and "breathtaking" are among our greatest hits...but do you know what we try to avoid? "Minimalism." Yeah. Minimalism is not something we want to see out our hotel room window. No thank you.

Nevertheless, we applaud the lovely, glass-half-full way that occam looked at the view out the window of a room at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco and captioned this photo on Flickr with "minimalism out our hotel window." Yes, it is minimal indeed.

The Clift, an Ian Schrager-created, Philippe Starck-designed property, has been on our radar for a while — and when we stayed there way back in '03, our room had a lovely sunny view up Nob Hill. How nice it was... and how nice this is not.

Rooms start around $225 and, well, at least the inside of the room is cool — even if there are stupid things like "oranges in a birdcage" (to quote Craig Ferguson) all around the place.

[Photo: occam]