Just footsteps from Joshua Tree National Park are Acido Dorado and Rose Muerta, two vacations rental homes built by architect Robert Stone. 78% of the gold dipped 1400 sq ft Acido Dorado can be opened entirely to the outdoors bringing the desert indoors. With sliding doors and mirrored walls and ceilings throughout, it’s appearance changes as day progresses to evening. With all this reflection going on you might miss the indoor pool. It sits in a 180 degree nook of a small mountain of rocks and presents on the outside a long and low chopped and channeled profile with huge mirrored overhangs, hearts, flowers and 3 colors of acid tinged cold.
Very ‘Margeliaeqsue’, all white, sterile, drapes, trompe-l’oeil wallpapers and custom furniture, the hotel ‘Maison Champs-Elysées’ commissioned Maison Martin Margiela to redesign, redecorate and reconcieve the hotel. Well not the entire hotel, but a big part of it. The very first hotel collaboration for the fashion house. MMM redecorates the suites, restaurant, smoking room, bar and reception area into a surreal atmosphere. The result is an atypical ambience of different harmonies that coalesce into something new, innovating and simply cool.
The much admired Tunisian Azzedine Alaïa, has given the opportunity to anyone from the outside to get a feel of his lifestyle and appreciation of the world of design from the inside. Mr. Alaïa has converted a 300 sqm loft hosted in a traditional 17th century building in the very private Rue de Moussy of Marais district in Paris, into three exclusive apartments/suites. It really does not get more boutique then this. The idea behind these three 100sqm apartments is for a lover of fashion & design visitor to get a feel of the true Parisian life. It is a hotel concept which incorporates the necessary facilities of daily life. Each interior has a private entrance and once inside, a complete fitted kitchen meets all the needs of the guests. The fashion designer’s aim was to achieve a true feeling of a home away from home. It is important to have the luxury of a hotel but at the same time to open the door and feel that you are somewhere familiar and close to you.
This new hotel in Amsterdam The Exchange is a hotel where fashion meets architecture. Each room has been designed and dressed by graduates and alumni of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI). The rooms are as diverse and inspiring, as the neighborhood the hotel lies in. Hotel The Exchange is located inthree buildings and has 61 rooms, ranging from 1 to 5 stars. A concept bySuzanne Oxenaar and Otto Nan, initiators of the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy. Hotel The Exchange is part of ‘The Red Carpet,’ an urban-renewal project that is aimed at giving the Damrak a more diverse and fashionable look.
Mondrian South Beach hotel’s interior is designed by Marcel Wanders. This fanciful hotel makes you feel like you fell down the rabbit hole in Wonderland. Stark glossy white is contrasted against the stunning black latticed staircase in the hotel lobby. Oversized bannister style columns, accents of red and black, massive bells as chandeliers with antique meets modern surrounds the lobby and my favorite restaurant in the world Asia de Cuba. The pool area is over the top with super tall cabanas, his signature printed carpet and textiles brings the indoors to the outdoors. What a fantastic view of Miami and a beautiful spot for the sunset. I went there last January and had cocktails by the pool. Hipster scene for sure.