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Art Hotels Arrive in India
10/2/2010
I n the 1950s and 60s, writers and musicians Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, and Dylan Thomas stayed at The Hotel Chelsea in New York because it was cheap. But sometimes it wasnt cheap enough, so they left works of art behind to pay the rent.
The Hotel Chelsea is one of the original art hotels. Since the 60s, boutique hotels or personal, luxury hotels with a quirk have sprung up all around the world, along with a subset furnished with artwork, that have come to be called art hotels.
Some art hotels were created by delinquent hotel renters, like The Hotel Chelsea, while others were hang-outs-cum-studios for painters who later left their art behind Picasso and Matisses brilliant paintings created at the Colombe dOr Hotel in Provence now adorn the hotels walls.
As more copycat art hotels have sprung up, theyve started to simply feature artwork gathered by the owners themselves, or commissioned from contemporary painters. These art hotels were for years
confined to the works of distinguished artists, but newer hotels are experimenting. The Fox Hotel in Denmark shows off everything from manga cartoons to street art. At the Propeller Island Hotel in Berlin, a guest can sleep in a coffin or Egyptian pyramid-themed room.
Some hotels have also taken the experience further, adding new art exhibitions regularly and hosting musical performances, like the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. The three stories of Le Sutra illustrate the three universal gunas, or forms of energy which make up a person or other living things attributes.
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