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Mama Shelter is the Mother of All Geek Hotels
November 7, 2008 at 11:54 AM | 0 Comments
Paris' newest Philippe Starck-designed hotel, Mama Shelter, may just be the mother of all geek hotels (get it? Mama? Mother? Har har).
No, but really: the new hotel, located in the Saint Blaise quartier (which is the 20th arrondissement and on the edge of Paris), has 174 "digital" guest rooms that sort of give us of a trippy NYLO-meets-geek-chic vibe — with a techie twist.
French company DirectStreams has outfitted every guest room with an iMac — which, in itself, is nothing particularly groundbreaking given the number of hotels that are throwing iMacs into guestrooms nowadays — but Mama Shelter's actually act as comprehensive multimedia centers: a single terminal that offers every in-room digital service you're gonna need (HDTV, music, radio, CD, films, DVDs, Internet, etc.)
Philippe Starck
Paris Hotel Scene:: A New Starck Hotel Arrives in the Form of Mama Shelter
October 8, 2008 at 4:40 PM | 0 Comments
The other day, we got a tip from a reader who let us know that there was a new hotel on the scene in Paris called Mama Shelter and it's from Philippe Starck! Here's what this covert tipster wrote us:
designed by philippe Starck and run by the Trigano family (founders of Club Med). just opened a couple of weeks ago
Screeeech. Club Med and Philippe Starck together? Cannot be. But it is!
