This weekend my girlfriend and I went to Toronto for her bosses birthday. It was a chance to get out of town and have a bit of a break too.
We were directed to stay at the Gladstone-one of the longest continuously running hotels in Toronto. Its recently been redone and the owner-an artist herself, decided to curate a group of artists to design and decorate the rooms. We stayed in the Map room, which was easy on the eye and very simple but there are 37 to choose from. We looked in on a few others just to check them out. And its cheap too.
Thought I should just mention that they do leave earplugs on the counter in each room. At first I thought Amy had brought them, but later found out that we actually needed them. The room we stayed in was nicely done but not that user-friendly. A word of advice to any artist doing room in a hotel- Live in it first-with your girlfriend. This guy didn’t.
I know that artist decorated hotel rooms are catching on, with them being commissioned in Nelspruit at Harry’s and also more recently at Spier in Cape Town. Does anyone know whats up with that by the way? Who’s on the list and what are they doing? And when can we stay there? Lang and Baumann also did some fantastic rooms as well and they have a great site.
