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Guggenheim Hotel Guest Says it was a "Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience"

You may recall our story last week about the Guggenheim Museum's Carsten Höller installation that lets lucky folks spend a night in the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda in a revolving hotel room. Well, those folks lucky enough to be able to score a reservation (all of which are, sadly, gone now) and who are willing to part with 549+ bucks, anyway.

Like we said, the hotel room, created through a partnership with the Waldorf=Astoria Collection, works like this:

Revolving Hotel Room is an art installation comprising three outfitted, superimposed turning glass discs mounted onto a fourth disc that all turn harmoniously at a very slow speed. During the day the hotel room will be on view as part of the Guggenheim's theanyspacewhatever exhibition, which runs from October 24, 2008-January 7, 2009. At night, the art installation becomes an operative hotel room outfitted with luxury amenities.

Gothamist spoke with Alaina Browne of Serious Eats, who recently spent an evening in the revolving hotel room with her hubby.

The verdict? "Definitely worth the price tag."

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Museum Hotels: Guggenheim Wants You to Sleep With the Art

Where: 1071 Fifth Avenue [map], New York, ny, United States, 10128

One of our favorite art exhibitions of the last few years was at London's Tate Modern, when installation artist Carsten Höller built silver tube slides into the museum's atrium and actually allowed patrons to experience them.

Now that Carsten is scheduled to show in New York at The Guggenheim, what kind of fun interactive toy will us Yankees get?

Höller is installing a hotel room! Like London's slides, the room will be interactive, welcoming guests nightly through a partnership with the Waldorf=Astoria Collection. Although reservations just opened, sadly they are already sold out; we will just have to hope that some lucky sleeper thinks to video blog the experience. And what an experience:

Revolving Hotel Room is an art installation comprising three outfitted, superimposed turning glass discs mounted onto a fourth disc that all turn harmoniously at a very slow speed. During the day the hotel room will be on view as part of the Guggenheim's theanyspacewhatever exhibition, which runs from October 24, 2008-January 7, 2009. At night, the art installation becomes an operative hotel room outfitted with luxury amenities.

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