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A Room at The Saguaro Hotel Comes with a Private Design Consultation
As you can see from this room shot above, what makes The Saguaro Scottsdale stand out from most other hotels is the abundance of eye-popping colors. And these happy hues aren't found just in the guest rooms but rather throughout the hotel's public spaces and even down by the pool area.
The duo responsible for the colorful look is the design team of Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat of Stamberg Aferiat Architecture who used "12 vibrant tones found in native desert wildflowers" as the foundation for the color scheme. The colors also follow the light spectrum which then creates different perspectives of the hotel depending on the time of day. It's crazy scientific yo!
While we recommended that other hotels start using more happy colors as part of our New Year's resolutions for hotels, it turns out you can learn how to use color in your own home, thanks to The Saguaro's new The Colors of Modern package which includes a private home consultation with Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat!
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A Look at the Outer Space Suite Inside Singapore's Wanderlust Hotel
It's been in magazines and on design blogs aplenty, but the "Space" Suite at Singapore's Wanderlust Hotel is a space you've got to see with your own eyes to appreciate.
Every duplex suite on the top floor of this 29-room hotel in the Little India neighborhood has been conceptualized by local design company fFurious; the "Space" suite is just one of the many looks, and by far the most popular. Maybe the allure comes from the mystery of outer space, or a youth spent sleeping under astronaut-covered sheets? Our guess: it's because the room is pitch-black with only a fiber optic ceiling of stars at night—great for a fantasy night of romance or if you're anticipating a crazy hangover.
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Former Conservatory-Turned-Duplex Suite Hotel is Music to Amsterdam's Ears
The latest addition to Amsterdam's, ahem, smokin' hot hotel scene is The Conservatorium, recently opened near P.C. Hoofstraat, otherwise known as the city's version of Rodeo Drive. Our intrepid sources have been scouring for early reviews of the petite 129-room escape, but all we've learned about the hotel so far is that it's aiming to "[bring] back the essence" of the iconic 19th Century ex-music conservatory renovated to create the space (hence the name).
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We Take a Design Nerd Stroll Through The Delano
Since it opened in 1994, the Delano Hotel has defined what it means to be a chic, South Beach boutique hotel.
Next year, its creative guru Philippe Starck will give the beach a new vision, with his work on SLS South Beach--mere steps away from the hotel that started it all. But can he top the ground-breaking work he produced for Ian Schrager at Delano?
After we took an 'ethos tour' with Delano GM Steven Hiblum, who pointed out the little quirks we'd missed on previous strolls through the lobby, and told us all about Starck's inspiration for his designs, we're not sure he can.
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It's a Bird...It's a Plane...Nope! It's the Shinkansen Seen from the Park Hotel Tokyo
Believe it or not, this shot of the Shinkansen—the Tokyo bullet train (versus a regular, slow train)—was taken from 33 stories above the tracks, from our room at the Park Hotel. We've already showed you all around inside the place, but the magic of the property isn't just its affordable rates (for Tokyo!) and up-and-coming location surrounding by the big media skyscrapers in Shiodome, but its views.
Looking down, it's this—the bullet train tracks and a reminder of that fact that this capital of Japan is always on the move. Looking up and out, it's this, a glittering still shot you otherwise only see on postcards.
Rooms at the Park Hotel average $250 per night, but a $12 upgrade scores you the prime views.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
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What Do You Look For in a Hotel Breakfast?
Fresh fruit and cheeses and thinly sliced meats and yogurt and granola....oh my, we're drooling. Hotel Breakfasts can be almost as magical as a hotel stay itself, provided the pickings are good. So we're wondering, what do you look for in a hotel breakfast spread?
If we had our ideal continental buffet, it'd be something like what we recently experienced at the awesome GombitHotel in Bergamo, Italy. The hotel—a Design Hotels member hotel housed in a medieval tower in the elevated historic town—cost us only 88 Euro per night for a beautiful room (more on that soon) and included one of the freshest hotel breakfasts we've had in quite some time.
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For the Sake of Hotel Art: The Cherub of the Mira Hong Kong
Is the WiFi free? Does the gym have good machines? All these things get noticed when checking into a hotel, but what about the atmosphere of the place—specifically the art on the walls or on the floor? We're highlighting properties around the world that do their artwork right, and the specific pieces you should stare long and hard at when next you drop by.
Today: The Mira Hong Kong's lobby art pieces by Charles Allem.
The first thing you'll likely notice upon entering the Mira, is the dark femininity of the place. The entrance itself—see more pics of it here—is extremely yonic, and the most prevalent color in the place is an ultraviolet indigo. Therefore, perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised to spot a giant purple Cherub statue in the center of the lobby, a lobby designed by Charles Allem.
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For the Sake of Hotel Art: The Park Hotel Tokyo's Tree of Life
Is the WiFi free? Does the gym have good machines? All these things get noticed when checking into a hotel, but what about the atmosphere of the place—specifically the art on the walls or on the floor? We're highlighting properties around the world that do their artwork right, and the specific pieces you should stare long and hard at when next you drop by.
Today: The The Park Hotel Tokyo's atrium piece by Kaïdin-Monique Le Houelleur.
Perhaps it's no surprise that, in a city so full of modern skyscrapers and buzzing technology, the artwork in Tokyo's hotels leans toward the organic. It can be a reminder of nature that re-center the guests. This is the way at the Park Hotel, where you reach the lobby half-way up the Shiodome Media Tower by traveling in an elevator with a view outside to the city quickly falling away beneath you.
The largest piece at the hotel is the handmade tree, by the self-taught French-Vietnamese artist Le Houelleur. She has done all of the art for the hotels, from the rooms straight down to little pieces near the elevators at the Park Hotel. Regardless, it's this patchwork tree that commands attention—a bit like the "tree of life" in The Lion King.
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Blazing Hot Deal on Le Meridien's Flagship Paris Hotel
Enough with the twee Paris boutique hotels we've been going on about all week! The monumental Le Meridien Etoile, which at 1,025 rooms is a shade bigger than the world's largest J.W. Marriott, has just popped up on Travelzoo with a remarkably low rate for a four-star Parisian property: €102 ($139) a night. That's more than 50 percent off the usual €299 rates. You also get a 10 percent discount at famed department store Galeries Lafayette.
But don't let the low, low rate make you think this is a fusty old convention center bore. These rooms are straight out of Blade Runner, with hard angles, gleaming surfaces and a lobby that reminds us of the space station in 2001.
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Inside the Public Spaces and Other Rooms of Milan's Maison Moschino
The lobby
Yesterday we took you on a video tour inside our standard, "Sweets"-themed room at Milan, Italy's Maison Moschino. We had many, many thoughts on the new-ish hotel, which is soon turning one year old, and not all of them were are positive as we hoped. We really believed in the hotel, as we love the Moschino brand and the whimsy we wanted from such a high design property, however the hotel is better suited as a showplace, like a gallery of interior design.
That said, the rooms are little functional and small in themselves. Don't plan on getting work done, or entertaining, or eating; there's simply not the type of furniture for that. And since during our visit to the hotel, which occurred right between the men's and women's fashion weeks in Milan, we spotted hardly a single other guest, it may be said that the Moschino isn't becoming a favorite very quickly. On the other hand, the Milanese love a good scene and would probably do well dining at the hotel's Clandestino.Milan restaurant or at the lobby bar, but those too were empty. What was going on? We thought the Moschino was supposed to be the coolest new hotel in town. Well, it is and it isn't.
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Inside a Standard Room at Milan's Maison Moschino
You'll have to pardon the temporary brevity of this, but we just stepped off a delayed flight from Milan back to New York, but still quite wanted to share the answer to yesterday's big Guess the Hotel mystery. Of course you all are good, and guess that the dessert-themed chandelier in inside the Maison Moschino, a true fashion hotel that open less than a year ago in a renovated train station.
We recently stayed here, for one night only, complete on our own and scored the Design Hotels Advance Purchase rate of 184 Euro per night, which, after taxes and fees are figured in, totaled $202 Euro. It's a pretty great rate, considering we've seen this hotel listing for 300+ Euros for just our standard room, and we jumped at the lower rate. Sadly the Maison Moschino has one of the worst hotel WiFi rates (1 Euro per hour = 24 Euros per day, for one device) and too-fancy-for-their-own-good breakfasts that start at 16 Euro per person.
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Inside the Park Hotel Tokyo
If you take the Tokyo subway to the Yurikamome station, you will be confronted with three hotel choices from the moment you exit the turnstiles. To one side, the The Conrad and the Villa Fontaine, and to the other, the Park Hotel. As something of a happy coincidence, we knew people staying in both the Conrad and the Villa Fontaine at the time we were in the Park Hotel, and when they came to meet us in the lobby of the Park Hotel, both were like, "wow, this is a nice place!"
Really it's nothing but nice in the Shiodome/Shimbashi area, considering that the hotels are at the tops of skyscrapers, which contain major international companies on the lower floors. Shiseido and ANA Airways are next door, and the Kyodo Media organization is underneath the Park Hotel. Thankfully, the area isn't overrun with skyscrapers and big biz, so views like this one of Tokyo Tower are still easily available. Just be sure to ask for one for only $12 more.
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