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Get Creative at Top Artsy Hotels

Posted Mar 2, 08 3:50 PM CST in Arts & Living    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – A good hotel provides comfort; a great hotel ... inspiration? Artists touched up the staid look of these hotels, selected by Budget Travel for their fake-fur tapestry, psychedelic mazes, and speckled French graffiti:

  1. The Winston, Amsterdam: This avant-garde hotel once displayed dead leaves; check out the Playnation room's trippy ceiling mural and 3-D robot.
  2. The New Majestic, Singapore: This mural-packed pied-a-terre surrounds guests with giant turtles and Mickey Mouse ears.

  1. Arte Luise Kunsthotel, Berlin: The Dieter Mammel-designed room features an oversize oak bed intended to invoke a child's perspective.
  2. Daddy Long Legs, Cape Town: Interactive rooms let guests underline favorite passages from piles of South African lit and sing into mics in the shower.
  3. Hotel Fox, Copenhagen: Artists sponsored by Volkswagen made over this place in 2005; the Sleep Seasons room places its mattress in a tent.

Source Budget Travel

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Guests can relive childhood in an oversized bed designed by Dieter Mammel at the Arte Luise Kunsthotel in Berlin.   (Arte Luise Kunsthotel)
The Sleep Seasons room at Copenhagen's Hotel Fox places the mattress in a tent.   (Hotel Fox)
The Playnation room features anime-inspired murals and a robot to keep you company during your stay at the Winston in Amsterdam.   (Winston)
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