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Lux 11
(25 October 2005) - Lux 11, a new hotel that opened in Berlin's hip Mitte district in July, wins points for a location central to many of the city's best boutiques and restaurants and, with the addition of an Italian-Asian fusion restaurant (slated to open mid-November), Tietgen und Kahlcke's Aveda spa, Ulf Haines' (buyer of the the famed Quartier 206) store, and café, does its own part in...
(25 October 2005) - Lux 11, a new hotel that opened in Berlin's hip Mitte district in July, wins points for a location central to many of the city's best boutiques and restaurants and, with the addition of an Italian-Asian fusion restaurant (slated to open mid-November), Tietgen und Kahlcke's Aveda spa, Ulf Haines' (buyer of the the famed Quartier 206) store, and café, does its own part in...
Luxe's Asian Grand Tour Box Set
(20 September 2005) - Luxe's new handmade red box packed full of 12 of their mini-guides to Asia makes the massive continent seem almost manageable. As we've noted here before, their concise descriptions, spunky tone, and conveniently pocketable size, are user-friendly answers to their bulky counterparts. Content includes curated selections of hotels, restaurants, clubs, shops, and (well-suited for the business traveller pressed for time) easy-to-follow suggested half-day tours....
(20 September 2005) - Luxe's new handmade red box packed full of 12 of their mini-guides to Asia makes the massive continent seem almost manageable. As we've noted here before, their concise descriptions, spunky tone, and conveniently pocketable size, are user-friendly answers to their bulky counterparts. Content includes curated selections of hotels, restaurants, clubs, shops, and (well-suited for the business traveller pressed for time) easy-to-follow suggested half-day tours....
The Ten Year Hotel
(03 August 2005) - Shipping container mania continues, this time in the form of students Lee Ferguson and Jonathan Whittaker's concept hotel that incorporates the temporality of cityscapes into its design. The 26-room building suspends the containers as self-contained pods within a steel beam grid, enabling both adaptability to changing surroundings and a sunken bar/concert area on the ground floor. via Hotel Chatter...
(03 August 2005) - Shipping container mania continues, this time in the form of students Lee Ferguson and Jonathan Whittaker's concept hotel that incorporates the temporality of cityscapes into its design. The 26-room building suspends the containers as self-contained pods within a steel beam grid, enabling both adaptability to changing surroundings and a sunken bar/concert area on the ground floor. via Hotel Chatter...
adidas ToGo + Design Hotels
(28 July 2005) - Starting next month, a unique marriage of footwear and hotels makes adidas' new ToGo series available exclusively for a period of two months at eleven selected Design Hotels lodgings in Europe and the Americas. Crafted from foot-molding neoprene and easily foldable, two styles, one each for men and women, are well-suited to travelers and will be sold through the concierges of hotels like the...
(28 July 2005) - Starting next month, a unique marriage of footwear and hotels makes adidas' new ToGo series available exclusively for a period of two months at eleven selected Design Hotels lodgings in Europe and the Americas. Crafted from foot-molding neoprene and easily foldable, two styles, one each for men and women, are well-suited to travelers and will be sold through the concierges of hotels like the...
Meet the Cinema at CONDESAdf
(09 June 2005) - CONDESAdf, the design hotel that opened January in Mexico City's trendy la Condesa neighborhood, introduces a free Summer movie series in their sub-level theater. "Hotel Stories" inaugurates the program with features like "Lost in Translation," and in July the "Sea and Water" theme will include screenings of "The Life Aquatic" and "Breaking the Waves." Early evening showtimes -- at 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays...
(09 June 2005) - CONDESAdf, the design hotel that opened January in Mexico City's trendy la Condesa neighborhood, introduces a free Summer movie series in their sub-level theater. "Hotel Stories" inaugurates the program with features like "Lost in Translation," and in July the "Sea and Water" theme will include screenings of "The Life Aquatic" and "Breaking the Waves." Early evening showtimes -- at 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays...
PuroBeach
(08 June 2005) - If you're heading to Sonar next week, you may want to take a detour to the Spanish island of Palma de Mallorca to enjoy PuroBeach, the latest add-on to Swede entreprenuer Mats Walhstrøm's hippie-lux boutique hotel Puro that he opened last year. Perched on a mini-peninsula that juts into Palma's bay, the new hangout offers beach and poolside dining and massages, morning yoga taught...
(08 June 2005) - If you're heading to Sonar next week, you may want to take a detour to the Spanish island of Palma de Mallorca to enjoy PuroBeach, the latest add-on to Swede entreprenuer Mats Walhstrøm's hippie-lux boutique hotel Puro that he opened last year. Perched on a mini-peninsula that juts into Palma's bay, the new hangout offers beach and poolside dining and massages, morning yoga taught...
Hip. Sexy. Chic: Montreal's Hotel Godin
(23 May 2005) - Set at a crossroads between downtown and the hip Plateau neighborhood, in an edifice that straddles old-world charm and modern exuberance, the six-month-young Hotel Godin is the newest boutique hotel to cater to the trendy jet-set crowd in Montreal. ...
(23 May 2005) - Set at a crossroads between downtown and the hip Plateau neighborhood, in an edifice that straddles old-world charm and modern exuberance, the six-month-young Hotel Godin is the newest boutique hotel to cater to the trendy jet-set crowd in Montreal. ...
Project FOX
(27 April 2005) - Project FOX, is an event in Copenhagen promoting the newly released Volkswagen Fox. For the occasion they created a hotel, a club, and a studio all in downtown Copenhagen. For the hotel they took an already pre-existing hotel, and combined the talent of 21 artists to re-design the interior of 61 rooms. Along with the hotel, they have a club/restaurant that has three open...
(27 April 2005) - Project FOX, is an event in Copenhagen promoting the newly released Volkswagen Fox. For the occasion they created a hotel, a club, and a studio all in downtown Copenhagen. For the hotel they took an already pre-existing hotel, and combined the talent of 21 artists to re-design the interior of 61 rooms. Along with the hotel, they have a club/restaurant that has three open...
kMoby, Teany and an Intimate Live Show
(31 March 2005) - “Hotel,” is No. 1 in Europe, the No. 2 most downloaded album on iTunes (it was No. 1 before Beck bumped it down a notch), he’s currently on a press tour (more on that in a minute), and he just released Teany Book: Stories, Food, Romance, Cartoons and, of course, Tea.” The tome is a hilarious collection of self-help advice (how to cure a...
(31 March 2005) - “Hotel,” is No. 1 in Europe, the No. 2 most downloaded album on iTunes (it was No. 1 before Beck bumped it down a notch), he’s currently on a press tour (more on that in a minute), and he just released Teany Book: Stories, Food, Romance, Cartoons and, of course, Tea.” The tome is a hilarious collection of self-help advice (how to cure a...
The Tablet 10
(28 March 2005) - Tablet Hotels is fantastic resource for finding the best small and medium sized hotels in a many cities around the world. Their snappy editorial helps make the selection pretty easy and their web site is superbly designed. To further curate your hospitality experience, Tablet has just introduced the Tablet 10. Basically, it's a dynamic list of the hotels with the best customer feedback. We...
(28 March 2005) - Tablet Hotels is fantastic resource for finding the best small and medium sized hotels in a many cities around the world. Their snappy editorial helps make the selection pretty easy and their web site is superbly designed. To further curate your hospitality experience, Tablet has just introduced the Tablet 10. Basically, it's a dynamic list of the hotels with the best customer feedback. We...
Copenhagen: Hotel Fox
(11 March 2005) - Individually themed rooms is nothing new in the hotel world. Hotel Fox will take that idea to a new level when it opens this April in Copenhagen. The hotel has been transformed by 21 street artists, graphic designers and illustrators from Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Each of the 61 rooms has a unique installation; the works have been commissioned by Die...
(11 March 2005) - Individually themed rooms is nothing new in the hotel world. Hotel Fox will take that idea to a new level when it opens this April in Copenhagen. The hotel has been transformed by 21 street artists, graphic designers and illustrators from Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Each of the 61 rooms has a unique installation; the works have been commissioned by Die...
The Poseidon Undersea Hotel
(15 February 2005) - Poseidon. Rooms will be submerged 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. $1500 a night gets you a room at the bottom of the ocean, each room will be equipped with spotlights and control to release fish food to keep things entertaining. The Poseidon will be accessible by long escalators to the ocean floor--Jacques Cousteau would be proud. via ABC...
(15 February 2005) - Poseidon. Rooms will be submerged 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. $1500 a night gets you a room at the bottom of the ocean, each room will be equipped with spotlights and control to release fish food to keep things entertaining. The Poseidon will be accessible by long escalators to the ocean floor--Jacques Cousteau would be proud. via ABC...
Ice Hotel
(08 February 2005) - Feeling adventurous? If you find yourself in the small village of Jukkasj‰rvi in Northern Sweden between the months of December and April treat yourself to an unusual night or two at the Ice Hotel. The rest of the year the hotel is slowly melting and waiting to be rebuilt come next icy season, pulling blocks of ice from the Torneålven River. The hotel has...
(08 February 2005) - Feeling adventurous? If you find yourself in the small village of Jukkasj‰rvi in Northern Sweden between the months of December and April treat yourself to an unusual night or two at the Ice Hotel. The rest of the year the hotel is slowly melting and waiting to be rebuilt come next icy season, pulling blocks of ice from the Torneålven River. The hotel has...
The Spacebox
(26 January 2005) - This looks like a cheap version of the Compact Design Living space we saw a few months ago. A crane stacks these guys 3 units high, each unit is complete with a kitchen, shower, and toilet. They look almost Japanese in design, like a capsule hotel. I wonder if these will become popular; maybe in small creative communites in Rotterdamn where they were designed....
(26 January 2005) - This looks like a cheap version of the Compact Design Living space we saw a few months ago. A crane stacks these guys 3 units high, each unit is complete with a kitchen, shower, and toilet. They look almost Japanese in design, like a capsule hotel. I wonder if these will become popular; maybe in small creative communites in Rotterdamn where they were designed....
Mysterious Speakers
(21 September 2004) - Paris' newest boutique hotel, The Murano Urban Resort is too trendy for its own good. From the hot pink teddy bear fur lined elevator to the black lit hallways, attempted hipness supersedes comfort and function. To their credit, the fingerprint recognition door lock system is pretty cool and the lobby is striking. The speakers in the lobby are definitely the highlight. The design of...
(21 September 2004) - Paris' newest boutique hotel, The Murano Urban Resort is too trendy for its own good. From the hot pink teddy bear fur lined elevator to the black lit hallways, attempted hipness supersedes comfort and function. To their credit, the fingerprint recognition door lock system is pretty cool and the lobby is striking. The speakers in the lobby are definitely the highlight. The design of...
The Four Seasons Restaurant
(08 September 2004) - If I had not attended a friend's wedding this past weekend, I would still be unaware of the brilliance that is the Four Season's Restaurant. Designed by Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson in 1959, the entire space is spectacular, but the window treatments are what really blew me away. Delicate chains repeatedly drape across each of the 30 foot tall window panes....
(08 September 2004) - If I had not attended a friend's wedding this past weekend, I would still be unaware of the brilliance that is the Four Season's Restaurant. Designed by Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson in 1959, the entire space is spectacular, but the window treatments are what really blew me away. Delicate chains repeatedly drape across each of the 30 foot tall window panes....
SuperFuture City
(13 June 2003) - Superfuture is another food, fashion, hotel, and nightlife city guide. But this one is only about the cool stuff. Created by Wayne Berkowitz, here's his Superfuture scenario: >> the scenario >> I regularly have friends [and others] visit me in Tokyo, however in the last few years rarely find time to show people around. Instead, it goes something like this ::::: Rendezvous at friends...
(13 June 2003) - Superfuture is another food, fashion, hotel, and nightlife city guide. But this one is only about the cool stuff. Created by Wayne Berkowitz, here's his Superfuture scenario: >> the scenario >> I regularly have friends [and others] visit me in Tokyo, however in the last few years rarely find time to show people around. Instead, it goes something like this ::::: Rendezvous at friends...
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