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Mister Cartoon Now Accepting Tattoo Reservations at The Marcel Hotel
Perhaps we spoke too soon about Hotel Graffiti being the new hot hotel trend. Perhaps Hotel Tattoo Artists are the new new hot hotel service instead.
The Marcel at Gramercy Hotel has announced today an ongoing art series called, M.O.A.R.--Marcel Original Art on Rotation. The program will bring "progressive, burgeoning artists" into the hotel to show off their work. But the first artist to come onboard will not be displaying his talent on the walls. No, try your skin instead.
Famous for tattooing celebrities such as Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Eminem, Mena Suvari and Ryan Phillippe – Mister Cartoon will set up his very own Ink Suite at Hotel Marcel, where he will see his regular clientele as well as hotel guests while working on his masterpiece for the outside wall.
Guests of the hotel will have the unique privilege of skipping the one-year waiting list to get "inked" by Mister Cartoon.
His residency will run in two parts: his first stay will take place from November 15th – 24th 2009, with a two-week return visit at the beginning of February 2010, culminating with the unveiling of his exterior M.O.A.R installation.
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Stay at The Strand, Get a Pretty Print
As regular HotelChatter readers know, we’re tracking a healthy handful of new hotels opening in New York this winter, and the race is on to see which of them not only opens first but wows guests in the biggest way. The garment district’s major contender, The Strand, is making its first offensive play in the game with its “Room With a View” grand-opening package.
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The W San Diego Puts Kanye West On Display
The W San Diego may be on its way to foreclosure, but the hotel must figure if it's going to go down, it's gonna do it in style. The W is hosting a cool photo exhibit by Chris Milk—best known as a music video director to big-name musicians such as Kanye West, U2, Green Day and Gnarls Barkley—through September.
Among the oversized photos, which hang throughout the public spaces in the W, some of the best star frequent collaborator Kanye West. Milk, who directed videos for "Jesus Walks," "All Falls Down" and "Touch the Sky," used 3-D scanning and CGI to create the black-white-and-gray images for the works "Kanye West (Wall)" (shown above), where the rapper emerges from a wall of 3-D geometric shapes, and "Kanye West (Reflection)," where we see West's mug looking into a shiny silver sphere.
Originally, Milk created the images for a Complex magazine cover shoot for West. The pair worked with the studio that did the crazy CGI work on de-aging Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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W's 'Extreme Wow Suite of the Future' Might Be a Little Bit Much
First there was the suite. And then there was the "WOW Suite," thanks to W Hotels. And now there is an "Extreme Wow Suite of the Future," which sort of throws us back to the early 90's where everything from sour candy to sneakers were suddenly being marketed as "extreme."
And this "extreme" thing might be a little much for a hotel room: W Hotels has unveiled the "Extreme Wow Suite” of the future, designed by architectural firm Jouin Manku, the firm of designer Patrick Jouin (pictured) and his associate Sanjit Manku. It made its debut today at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of a special touring exhibition called "Le Paris de Patrick Jouin.”
The deets:
An interpretation of the conventional hotel Presidential Suite, the "Extreme Wow Suite” has been a part of W Hotels vernacular since the brand was founded in 1998. To further emphasize the importance of innovation and design, W Hotels engaged Jouin Manku to design a forward-looking, innovative lifestyle experience created in a three-dimensional installation.
Uhh, okay. Also, it's supposed to look like a "work of art in-progress" rather than a finished, completed model room. Some elements still look "in-development."
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Annie Leibovitz Captures Unexpected Portraits At The Peninsula
Another year, another awesome series of portraits of the staff of Peninsula Hotels by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. It's the fifth year for the partnership between the luxury hotels and Leibovitz, and they've given her free rein to roam the Peninsula Chicago and Peninsula Tokyo properties in order to capture what truly is the spirit of the brand in its employees.
The resulting images will delight both hotel dorks and lovers of black & white photography, as we'd not only love to have the picture above hanging over our couch, but we find it moving in terms of illustrating the Peninsula's tradition of ultra-attentive service. Other pictures feature the doormen, like Chicago's lead doorman Timothy Hitchcock helping a young girl into a car, and even laundry staff and room attendants.
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W Washington DC to Highlight Emerging Artists
Dianna Wong, interior designer of the W Washington DC
From the moment you enter the soon-to-soft-open W Hotel in Washington, D.C., hotel interior designer Dianna Wong’s carefully curated art program vies for your attention. To your left, a digital fire flickers in the fireplace. Look closely, and you might notice the flames exhibit some curious Benjamin Button symptoms. Video artist Adam Duplay remixed the staid fireplace, starting with glowing embers and progressing backwards.
And just above the fireplace, Israeli artist Ori Gersht offers a statement charged with post-9/11 politics, laced with throwbacks to both the American and French revolutions. After spraying liquid nitrogen on red, white, and blue flowers, Gersht wired each stem with firecrackers and set up 11 cameras around the blooms. He triggered the cameras and explosives simultaneously to capture the exploding-but-intact petals. His enlarged photo of the flowers “look like brush strokes of paint across the canvas,” as L.A.-based designer Wong described on a recent tour.
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Hotel Indigo San Diego Gets a Cool Sheet of Glass
The Hotel Indigo San Diego is now set to open July 13 and while previously we touched on the hotel's green offerings, we didn't have any real photos of the place. But thankfully, now we do.
Here are some exterior shots of the hotel which feature a four-story glass sculpture titled “Indigo Waters” by local San Diego artist Lisa Schirmer. (That's what great about Hotel Indigo--they incorporate as much artwork from local artists as they can.) And lest you think this is just another pretty sculpture, there's actually some serious mathematics behind it. From the hotel:
Very cool. Also inside the hotel, local photographer Ian Cummings will have his photos of native plants and water-driven imagery on display in the guestrooms, the hotel lobby, the hotel's Phi Bar and Bistro and other public areas.The underpinning of the Hotel Indigo brand’s design and décor can be attributed to the Fibonacci sequence and the ratio known as the Golden Mean (or Phi). These math principles are found in nature and can be seen in the perfect proportion of the nautilus shell, which is represented in the Hotel Indigo brand logo. Adopting this mathematical ratio as a design principle helps create a feeling of balance and effortless beauty within the space.
“The idea behind the sculpture is to create a wavelike pattern of indigo colors by rotating and repeating square and quarter circle shapes on square glass panels,” said Schirmer. The glass panels are arranged vertically in a Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) in seven layers on a curved outside wall of the hotel. As daylight shifts, the glass will create a dramatic mix of color and movement; tasteful back-lighting at night will create a new composition of colors.
Room rates for Hotel Indigo San Diego will begin at $199 a night.
Another shot of the hotel's exterior and the sculpture is after the jump.
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Video Exhibit at L.A.'s Standard Hotels Anything But Standard
For the next six months, guests and passersby at the Standard Hotel’s two L.A. properties will be treated to a video art show by artist and Guggenheim fellow Kalup Linzy, whose works have also appeared at New York’s MoMa, and the Whitney.
Entitled Key to Our Heart and SweetBerry Sonnet, Linzy’s works are meant to raise questions about gender, sexuality, race, class and popular culture by mocking soap operas’ and Hollywood films’ storytelling conventions—and many of Linzy’s works feature the male artist dressed in outlandish women’s clothing for an added impact.
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Go Between 'Heaven' and 'Hell' Via the Standard NY Elevator
Whoa. We were just minding our own business around the Twitterverse when the Stan D'Arde Twitter linked to something we sort of can't take our eyes off of: a piece called "Civilization" by artist Marco Brambilla; a "video installation in the elevators at the Standard New York depicting the 'ride' from Heaven to Hell." Wow. Wow. (Note: it sort of looks like Hell to Heaven to Hell to us, but we're not sure).
Watch the whole thing here if you dont want to ride up and down the elevators at the Standard all day; and, um, we're going to just go ahead and say the Standard is lucky they've been getting good reviews because if this place was Hotel Hell, then we'd have a lot of fun writing headlines and puns with this one.
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DC's Renaissance M Street Hearts the Local Arts
In these oh-so-shaky economic times, you’ve got to feel sorry for graduating college seniors. And when you consider the fates of art students — you know, those creative kids who have pretty much always looked forward to uncertain job prospects — things might seem particularly dire.
In Washington DC, the Renaissance M Street Hotel is doing its part to skip the pity party and celebrate the accomplishments of local aspiring artists. A new exhibit showcases the works of contemporary art works from graduating seniors of DC’s Corcoran College of Art + Design. The artworks will change quarterly, each time featuring 8 to 12 student works in the hotel’s M Bar lobby lounge and restaurant with the goal of introducing guests to “a new generation of modern American artists.”
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W South Beach Hanging Photographs to Prep for June 2 Opening
While The Ace New York gets ready to Iggy Pop it up with giant canvases of music legends, the W South Beach is hanging its own pop culture art in preparation for a June 2 opening.
Since Art Basel is such a huge deal for the tourism industry in Miami, and because many who venture down for the culture and art will no doubt make this new W a home away from home, the W South Beach is seeking to bring that electric energy indoors with their own art collection. Letting his plans with the W slip during an interview with BlackBook, celebrated photographer Danny Clinch revealed that the hotel has chosen to feature his pop portraits and even selections from his personal oeuvre of travel images:
They decided that in the rooms ... they would stick with more abstract images that were not about the subject, but more about the photograph. They also decided to use my large photographs on the landings of the elevator. Each floor will have just one large photograph. For that, we tried to pick things that were really portrait-oriented.
Sounds beautiful and typically benign as far as hotel photography goes, although anything would look harmless compared to a gigantic neon Cyndi Lauper. Strut on down to the W South Beach in just over a month when they fling open their doors and light up the Clinch photographs on June 2.
[W image: W South Beach; Clinch photo: BlackBook]
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The 'Zero-Star Hotel' in Switzerland Opens June 5th
Where: Teufen, Canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland
We're all about odd and unusual hotel offerings today, but seriously now: who would want to stay at a "zero-star hotel"? No-frills is one thing, but anti-luxury is an experiment in inconvenience and unwelcome irony that we are not so into. But maybe you're into that sort of thing. It's "art." So they say.
We mentioned the Null Stern Hotel in Switzerland back in January: two brothers came up with (and run) this hotel concept as an art installation slash business venture; inside a subterranean Swiss air raid shelter, "hotel rooms" are arranged sleeper-dormitory-style, with no walls between beds, a shared bath, and limited hot water. Instead of heaters, there are rubber hot water bottles hanging from clotheslines up along the walls to provide "low-tech personal heat systems." Oh, and there are no windows. The hotel was previously not open to guests, but alas, look what landed in our inbox today:
The Null Stern Hotel is set to open its doors on Friday, June 5, 2009 in Teufen, Canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland. After months of meticulous preparation from concept to reality and with currently over 1,000 reservations on the books prior to the official opening, Frank and Patrik Riklin, from the Atelier für Sonderaufgaben (St. Gallen), concept artists and inventors of the Null Stern Hotel, said, "The time for an unusual extension of hospitality has come; we are eager to see how the art installation will further develop as a business idea with real guests coming from all over the world".
1,000 people want to stay here. 1,000 people! What are the odds that we could get one of these things going stateside in our basement? Sigh. If you want to be number 1,001, try your luck at snagging a rezzie here. At least it's cheap to stay here.
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