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Hiltons in Paris Celebrate Renoir
Can anyone still afford to jaunt to Paris to check out new art exhibits? Er, could anyone ever afford to do that? (Actually, scratch that question. We’re pretty sure we won’t like the answer.)
If you answered “yes” to the first question, the Hilton Hotels in Paris have an art-tastic hotel package for you. To coincide with the new “Renoir in the 20th Century” exhibit at Paris’s National Gallery at Grand Palais, the two Paris Hiltons have unveiled the “Renoir Celebration” package through Dec. 31.
The package includes accommodation at either Hilton Arc de Triomphe or Hilton La Défense, two VIP passes for the Renoir exhibit, a Renoir 2010 calendar, and a glass of champagne at the hotel bar upon arrival. To which we say: Um, hello recession? If we wanted a Renoir calendar, we’d probably just go to the calendar store at the mall. Or, you know, buy one at the museum shop. As a package perk, it’s a little on the pathetic side, don’t you think? The champagne is a nice touch, but since the press release didn’t specify a kind we’re guessing it’s not particularly top-notch.
Sigh. It’s a sad day when even a sophisticated Paris excursion feels cheap. Rates start at 334 euros (roughly 488 USD) at Hilton Arc de Triomphe and 214 euros (roughly 312 USD) at Hilton Paris la Défense.
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Wein and Design Hotel Has Fanciest Breakfast Spread in Vienna
HotelChatter's Eric Rosen recently spent some time in Austria and Germany. All this week, he'll be rounding up his hotel observations. Any tips, suggestions, questions? Let us know.
The key to “doing” Europe properly, is to start your day with a sensible breakfast at the hotel.
For a long time we resisted taking breakfast at the table d'hôte, rejoicing in the five euros we were saving by foregoing bad coffee, stale rolls and a few greasy cold cuts, while saving our ducats for a leisurely lunch instead. But as we’ve grown older, we’ve come to see the logic of shelling out a little extra cash for a hearty breakfast so that we don’t get cranky scouring the continent for a decent cup of coffee, or fainting from hypoglycemia and cutting out of a museum early for lunch.
No need for such a strategy while staying at Vienna’s Rathaus Wein and Design Hotel, though.
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(Bath)Room With an Anti-View: We're Not Sure We're Okay With This
This could be a Killer View, we suppose, depending on how you look at it. This is the view from the urinals in the public men's room at 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. And those are real people. And they could be you!
Alright, we get it. 21C is an art in a hotel that dually functions as a public art museum but its "gender-specific latent exhibitionist fetish features" within the lobby bathrooms are a topic we've discussed before, and now that we're seeing a real (read: non-PR) shot of the view from in the little boys' room, we're not so sure we're okay with this.
Allow is to explain what's going on here:
The men's restroom has a two-way mirror that allows users of a long urinal to contemplate passers-by outside the restroom. Both the men's and women's restrooms have tiny LCD screens displaying a multitude of different, open eyes in the mirror above the sink area that make washing up or primping a communal affair.
Dudes peeing in urinals while looking at us. Does that not make you a wee bit uncomfortable? Think about it. Really.
Anyway, rooms here start around $185 if you're interested in booking your own private bathroom without these exhibitionist features.
[Photo: gregverdino]
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Romeo Hotel Gets Extra Arty With Clemente Exhibition
The Romeo Hotel has already gotten a mention from us for getting boutique hotels into Napoli, but it's more than just a boutique – it's really an impressive art hotel as well. They feature modern artists but not with the standard exhibition; instead, the Romeo has been commissioning artists to create a piece of art inspired by the city of Napoli.
At the moment, Francesco Clemente is the artist-of-the-moment, and as well as catching his specially-commissioned piece in the hotel, you can also see his larger solo exhibition at the MADre Museum. And to celebrate all that, the Romeo Hotel has created a Clemente Package which includes museum tickets and the exhibition catalogue, Sea View room accommodation with breakfast, a couple of discount vouchers for restaurants and spa treatment and a limited edition postcard collection of Clemente's artworks. This deal starts at €299 ($420) but to coincide with the MADre exhibition, it's only valid until October this year.
The great thing about this hotel is that if you're lost, you can wander the streets saying "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo Hotel?" Or maybe not, but it's the kind of Friday pun we couldn't resist. Fortunately the hotel – and especially its art - sounds a lot better than our jokes.
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Villa Vilina Tempts Visitors With Three Art Exhibitions in June
Croatian resort Villa Vilina has a neat way to give even lazy vacationers the best of both worlds: you can get your cultural, arty fix without even leaving the hotel. The month of June is peak season for their art affairs by the sounds of things, with three separate exhibitions parading through the hotel corridors.
Starting on June 5, paintings by Petra Ševeljević will form the "Parco" exhibition. Apparently her pictures are all about parks and black pine trees which seems a little quirky to us, but intriguing. Two weeks later the "Venus" exhibition opens with Petar Hranuelli's stone sculptures of "different female forms".
To finish off the big art month, Villa Vilina will host a photographic exhibition opening on June 26. Srđan Babić photographs are supposed to be pretty inspiring, but if they're not as much as you'd hoped for, the views from the pool deck will be a good substitute.
Villa Vilina is located on the small island of Lopud off the coast of Dubrovnik. Most of June falls into their shoulder season (until June 7 it's off-peak) and rates are reasonable, ranging from € 146 ($205) to € 255 ($360) depending on the suite size and the view. But the art's there for everybody.
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You Can Finally Swim Over Andy Warhol's Face at Thompson LES
One thing you can't accuse the Thompson LES is moving quickly. After we watched and waited in agony as delays just kept coming, we were happy enough just to see the hotel open, let alone the bits around it.
But we were understandably pretty hyped about the Andy Warhol pics on the bottom of the Thompson LES swimming pool. After a promise of an October 2008 start to the Warhol swim season, we saw Andy's images finally appearing in November but there was still no water. But who needs to swim in November, right?
The important thing is this: summer's approaching, and the Andy Warhol pool looks ready — though not open just yet. The photos you'll swim over are film stills taken from Gerard Malanga's "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man" and we really love the whole idea. Staring at art on walls is so time-consuming; better that we can swim over the top of it to get a good look.
We called the hotel this morning and were told that the pool will finally open at the end of May or early June, depending on the weather. If you think you'll be in the mood for a swim around then, we found Queen Superior rooms for $205 in the first weeks of June. Pack your swimming goggles to get the best view of Warhol.
[Photo: NY Times]
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The 'Spilled Ice Cream' on Four Seasons Washington's Exterior
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.
We like art. We do. But some art is not for everyone — and, most have to agree: when you're staying at the Four Seasons, you would not look out your window expecting to see something like this, would you?
This is a shot of a part of the exterior of the Four Seasons Washington, D.C., a hotel that is absolutely unique (and very, very cool) in that it has part of the property's owner's private art collection on display throughout the interior of the hotel — and apparently the exterior, too. This particular piece certainly isn't everyone's taste, and this shot comes to us via tombarnes20008's submission to the HotelChatter Flickr pool. He adds:
I've always thought that this sculpture looked like either baby-sick or spilled ice cream.
Yeah, some of us would agree; it's definitely a cool piece, just maybe notsomuch outside our Four Seasons window...especially at $595 per night.
[Photo: tombarnes200008]
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Hotel Palomar Atlanta to Open in April
According to Kimpton Hotels, the Hotel Palomar Atlanta Midtown “will bring a new meaning to Southern hospitality.” Does that mean their iced tea will be spiked with something good? We don’t know the answer to that yet, but we’ll find out April 29, when the sixth installment of the Palomar series is scheduled to open.
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Get Hotel des Arts Art on Your iPhone
One night at the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco: around $128.
Opportunity to sleep in the middle of floor-to-ceiling art: priceless.
Being able to not pay $128 and show your friends pics of that floor-to-ceiling art on your iPhone: really priceless — and also awesome.
A company called Start Mobile has just launched an iPhone application that brings "new art to a new medium": they've introduced the very first mobile art gallery for the iPhone. This one features images of the "painted rooms" on the inside of the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, and the images are delivered as mobile wallpapers directly to the picture library on your iPhone.
From the official press release:
The mobile art wallpapers are optimized for display on the iPhone, and all the images can be 'flipped' to reveal additional information about the artists and their artwork, including links to their respective websites and galleries.
Oh, and: after you go through the whole "Art Hotel Gallery", the very last screen you come to contains a coupon for an exclusive discount on a week's stay at the Hotel des Arts. Ah, a harmonious marriage of pretty things, hotels and gadgets — what more could we want?
[Photo of Hotel des Arts hotel room: Sophie_pr]
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'Hope' Poster Artist Drops Into Renaissance Boston Waterfront
Artist Shepard Fairey (right) with David Keamy, Renaissance Boston's Director of Marketing.
Shepard Fairey, a name we recognize as the now-famous LA street artist whose claim to commercial greatness is the ubiquitous Obama "HOPE" poster, is in Boston for the opening of his new exhibit at Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. The exhibit, "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand," opens today and runs until mid-August and features his "screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal, and canvas."
And where does one of the most famous living artists stay when hitting up Beantown? Apparently, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel — and, in celebration of the exhibit opening, the hotel is offering the full Shepherd Fairey experience (well, short of meeting him) to guests.
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The Views From Relais de Saint Ser Inspired Cezanne
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
You have absolutely no excuse not to be inspired by the views from your room at Relais de Saint Ser in Puyloubier, France. This view of Mont Sainte-Victoire from room 6 is similar to the view Paul Cezanne was diggin' on way back in 1900 when he painted Mont Sainte-Victoire — so you can and should be inspired to create something beautiful if you're waking up every morning to a view like this.
Reader C. sent us this shot of his view from Relais de Saint Ser from a recent stay, adding that "this cheap little hotel was such a great find." It certainly looks like an amazing find: the hotel, near Aix-en-Provence, has nine rooms and rates run at a mere 50 Euros for a single or twin room, and a "chambre triple" is only 75 Euros (about $65 and $100, respectively). If you want to hit Europe to find yourself all Eat, Pray, Love style to reinvigorate your spirit and get the ol' creative juices flowing, this is definitely not a bad place to start.
Check out the official website here — but careful, it's all in French.
[Painting via Ibiblio]
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Romeo Hotel Injects Artsy Boutique Flavor Into Naples
Not that we necessarily need to lure you to Naples (Naples, Italy, that is; not Florida) — since you already know that the baked goods are the bomb and you can buy many, many kiddie tricycles if you want 'em — a brand new 85-room hotel has just opened up its doors to bring some boutique flavor to the Naples hotel scene.
The Romeo Hotel is the first step a development that is aiming to turn the area between the Piazza Municipio and the cruise ship terminals into an "elegant promenade," and claims to be the first design hotel to hit Naples.
The location makes for excellent views of both Mt. Vesuvius and the island of Capri, and the floor to ceiling windows in the rooms will, at the very least, let you watch the cruise ships come and go — both from guestrooms and from the fitness center that looks out onto the Bay of Naples (there's also a 7,500 sq ft spa and a terrace-top outdoor pool).
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