Leah's Favourite Things

INSTALLATION
United Arab Emirates - XVA ART HOTEL
XVA Art Hotel

The art hotel is stylishly garnished with sculptures and works of art of all kinds. On entering the hotel the ceiling is indulgently decorated with layers upon layers of beige fabric. It playfully portrays the illusion of looking up a ladies petticoat, as you subtly discover small legs and hands peep out!
 
A fun visual, but once studied, it has a disturbing edge to it, the dolls small hands and feet have a slight redness to them, implying the remnants of blood. Its "weird and wonderful" characteristic is not imposing, it generates a curiosity; thought provoking and making one gaze, sets the style of the hotel.

 

 

OSTRICH-SHAPED SIDE TABLE ("DIVA WALL CONSOLE" BY IBRIDE)
Greece - BABY GRAND HOTEL
Baby Grand Hotel

The ostrich shaped table instantly injects humour to the space with its novel animal representation. Its wacky form seems to adopt movement as its legs appear to be walking away from you! It's eccentric nature is typically my favourite thing in the hotel.
 
I particularly like the combination of the second and third elements of the table. The bottom half is a shiny red high pressure laminate, assembled from a solid slotted shaped flat pack, and the top half of the bird transforms into a second detailed black and white illustration, specially created to accompany the Console, allowing you to adapt your space and dress up the wall. It's lighthearted and makes you smile!

 

 

ORIGINAL CELL DOOR
England - MALMAISON
Malmaison

Once a Victorian prison, the building has been sympathetically converted into a themed Hotel. 
 
There’s evidence of the hotel’s past around every corner. I particularly liked the crimson coloured original cell doors that stud the whitewashed walls of the atrium. The scuffed metal doors hark back to the building's former function; each unique, they are visibly battered and bruised, full of dents and character, revealing the building's history... if only they could speak! The spy holes are still present, cleverly reversed to enable guests to see out, whilst the locks are now operable by the occupant. 

 

 

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