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grand hotel salone --- international architects and their projects for hotel rooms - the exhibition was held during the milan design week 2002 staged by fondazione cosmit eventi curator: adam d. tihany 'I can't stand those all-white hotel rooms anymore, because of this each architect was assigned a city (other than his or her home base). I wanted to make it an antiglobalization chain hotel', adam tihany said. 'each room had to represent what it is really like in a different city.' the rooms on exhibit are remarkably different, despite having standard hotel dimensions. http://www.cosmit.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and here are the hotel rooms: 1 - arata isozaki's vision of a hotel room in rome includes tatami mats and a kimono on a display rack. --- 2 - to conjure tokyo, jean nouvel, who was dressed head to toe in leather pants, vest and jacket (I'm a little fat and short, so this is what I'm comfortable in," he said), upholstered his entire room in black and red leather, and tossed on a heap of red silk sheets. he included also a bedside table made of a silver carbon fiber looks like a set of steel photography cases, complete with foam-lined drawers stocked with a bible and a condom. --- 3 - richard meier stayed with the classic white statement for which he is known, though he embellished his paris room with a big television screen built directly into the footrest of the bed. in the middle of the room there is a transparent circular shower. --- 4 - ron arad placed a circular bed within a round room. the walls are covered floor to ceiling with live-action video murals of life in mexico city. --- 5) toyo ito designed three-ring conversation pits for bed, desk and bath, all surrounded by a white shag rug. he designed the room after sept. 11 as an imaginary refuge for new yorkers. --- 6 - gaetano pesce and his room for moscow. resin furniture and cutout profiles of human heads. a clamorous place in transition: gold silk pillows shaped like onions (russian orthodox church domes) and the floor is painted with tiny red hammers and sickles. a bedspread printed with a map of moscow. --- 7 - vico magistretti and his comfortable hotel room in london. no excess, but a simple and elegant atmosphere. --- 8 - matteo thun homage to hong kong in a bamboo screen. to dream of a place and to give material substance to the dream. --- 9 - zaha hadid and sidney a multi-user / multi-space structure. it is not a design driven by the location but by the lack of division of functional spaces. ---

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