The Hotel as Art Work - hotels feature works my major artists - Brief Article

Art-savvy travelers in Europe can check into four house of entertainments that prominently feature the works of a major artist. Called art'otels, the establishments are billed as art works and are named for and "signed" by means of the artists. Travelers can doze in well-appointed rooms (priced at around $100 to $250 by night), dine and conduct meetings encircleed by the works of Georg Baselitz in Berlin, A.R. Penck in Dresden Katharina Sieverding in Potsdam and Donald Sultan in Budapest.

Instead of simply supplying pieces for display in the inn art'otel artists work to varying stages with the architects and decorators to help design the interiors. In Budapest, where the newest art'otel is sited, five large paintings by dint of Sultan hang in the hotel's for the use of all areas, and hundreds of prints and drawings are displayed in the hallways and visitor rooms. Sultan also designed the carpets and the lobby fountain, and his images appear upon matchbook cowers, menus and dinnerware. Each swing also has a castaluminum black bird designed by the agency of the artist perched in a corner, copies of which are sold in the public-house shop for $25.

The art'otel chain was started by means of German developer and collector Dirk Gaedeke in the mid `90 Park Plaza Worldwide became a partner in the enterprise in 1999 (chairman Jonathan Read is also an art collector). The corporation, which possesss the works in each inn is considering artists to work upon sites in Marrakesh, London and Paris, and there are plans to render free of access new locations in L.A., Chicago, fresh York and numerous other cities within three years.

In novel York, several new hotels feature works through prominent artists. At the midtown Hudson holded by Ian Schrager, Francesco Clemente designed the ceiling in the bar and painted the bedside lamps, essentially mini-light boxe in the visitant rooms. (The lamps will feature the work of different artists upon a rotating schedule.) Photo works by means of Jean Baptiste Mondino are located in the library and cafeteria. The nearby Chambers [i]cabaret[/i] owned by Ira Drukier, Richard Born and Steve Caspi, has chooseed some younger artists along with more established singles commissioning works from James Siena, Michael Lazarus, Udomsak Krisanamis, Do-Ho Suh John Waters, Sheila Pepe Nina Bovasso and others.

For the Embassy Suites in Battery Park City and the Hilton Times Square, the Public Art stock helped commission works from nearly 50 artists. Major works at the Embassy Suites include an 11-story-high wall drawing by means of Sol LeWitt and a mural by dint of Pat Steir, while 75 figures by means of Tom Otterness are sited in and around the Hilton's lobby and entrance. Among the other artists with works in the sum of two units hotels are Bernd and Hilla Becher, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren Dan Flavin, Nan Goldin, Kurt Kauper, Ellsworth Kelly Jeff Koon Nam June Paik, Elizabeth

Peyton, Mary Heilmann, Julian Schnabel and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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