bespoke-room boutiques

There seems to be a trend nowadays where boutique hotels are commissioning a selection of influential/upcoming artists to design a room each producing, what I like to call, a bespoke-room boutique. Whether this is a PR stunt to separate themselves from the crowd, or to ensure no two stays are ever the same, I like it. So here are our top 5 bespoke-room boutiques we’d go back twice for.

gladstone hotel, canada

This historic Victorian-turned-art-hotel in Toronto has 37 rooms each individually designed by Canadian Artists of all disciplines. The artists had a simple criteria: portray your vision keeping in mind the need of the traveller.  I’m a particular fan of the ‘Blue Line room’, but not quite what I’d do if I landed in the ‘Teen Queen’ room.

new majestic hotel, singapore

This hotel is uber cool. All 30 of the hotel’s rooms are individually-designed with bold themes created from an array of Singapore’s up-and-coming creatives. Rooms vary with extras like floor to ceiling mirrors, fluffy carpet padding and aquarium themed interiors. I adore the ‘Loft Room’ with its wooden floors, vintage theatre lights and two stand alone baths.

daddy long legs hotels, south africa

You’re in for a treat at the Daddy Long Legs Hotels. Pick between the Art Hotel or the Airstream Trailer Park for your bespoke-room. The rooms at the Art Hotel have each been designed by artists, poets, musicians, photographers and designers resulting in complete randomness: from the bright red emergency rooms fitted out with nurse outfits, to rooms designed for you and your dog. Then there’s the Airstream Trailer Park which has put a luxurious twist to trailer trash. Love it.

lalala arthotel, poland

This hotel is perfect for any modern art lover and it definitely deserves its place in our top 5 picks if only for its amazing website. With only seven rooms each designed by seven individual artists, your imagination will be pushed beyond its limit, because in Lalala Arthotel, anything goes when it comes to design.

hotel fox, Denmark

If you’re looking for a more bespoke range, definitely head to the Fox Hotel in Copenhagen.  This hotel enlisted  21 international artists from the fields of graphic design, urban art and illustration which helped turn Hotel Fox into the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotels. Chose between comic inspired rooms to monochrome ones and tents to enchanting psychedelic ones.