Travel Entry
Berlin's Art Hotel
By Milo Auckerman: Art hotels have been around for about the last two years or so. We wrote about Copenhagen's Fox Hotel back in 2005. I love the idea of a hotel whose art is not encased in frames, but consists of the actual the room you're staying in. However, it's been a slow build out and art hotels remain a specialty, not de rigeur. That's why I'm pleased to see the Arte Luise Kunsthotel has sprung up in Berlin. With incredible views of the Reichstag building, the Spree river, and the Brandenburg Gate, the Kunst offers a stellar location and 50 unique rooms. All rooms have been touched by the hands of an artist that include some big, some small, but clearly, it's a well curated list. What's unusual about the Arte Luise is that instead of the rooms being extremely reliant on graphical elements on the walls, many of the rooms are more conceptual. Consider Andreas Paeslack's room:
"The spirit of Carl Spitzweg is present here in what is perhaps his most famous painting. Artist Andreas Paeslack used the painting as the basic motif for his room installation, creating what amounts to a three-dimensional reproduction of it. The aspect of an audience is created by an apparent opening into the room, which gives visitors to the "Hamburger Bahnhof" museum a view into the room. Thus in this game the guest, as the poor poet, becomes part of the central motif together with the room."
Still there are many rooms that are heavy on paint such as the room by Kehl made to look like as though you just stepped into a cartoon (pictured above). All nicely done.
Thus, every room is an original, and all rooms are only united by the high artistic standards with which the concepts have been carried out. Sculptures in the lobby and philosophy in the stairwell accompany guests en route.
At the reception desk a young, competent team is at our guests´ disposal around the clock. Our in-house restaurant "Habel" offers lovingly prepared German-Mediterranean cuisine, which is also served on the broad terrace in the hotel courtyard in the summer.
This combination of a truly unique location, the inspired manifestation of enormously diverse artistic concepts, and the pleasant urbane atmosphere of our small hotel make a stay at the "Luise" an incomparable experience.
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