Here you can find a unique collection.
For those who are not ready for grueling marathons to museums and art galleries while on vacation, you hotels, where the art can be found without leaving the room.
Sometimes in the lobby of a Western hotel you can find works that are not dreamed of and many museums. For example, the sculpture collection of the Dolder Grand is the best in Zurich and is estimated at 45 million Swiss francs. The Rome Waldorf Astoria lures the paintings of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, and the gem of the collection new York The Surrey — panel Chuck close with a picture of Kate moss.
Pulitzer Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The hotel Pulitzer is 25 detached homes of the XVII and XVIII centuries on the Prinsengracht. Designer hotel Yak Strauss spent the night in each of the 225 rooms to understand how it should furnish. And the hotel, and the collection that it is attached, originally owned by the Pulitzer family, especially the grandson of the founder of the journalism prize Joseph Pulitzer. The owners have changed, but the name after the reconstruction of 2016 proudly left. The Suite Art Collector’s Suite, the guest can feel like a collector: the walls are almost completely covered with paintings. Particularly impressive is the painting “Branch of the Khalsa” Dutchman Thierry de Cromier, funny paraphrase “the Banquet of the officers of the” Frans Hals the Elder, the founder of Dutch realism. Only instead of meat and wine on the table, Burger and beer cans. Pulitzer is also apartment for fans of Antiques and book lovers — each with a matching collection.
Dolder Grand (Zurich, Switzerland)
Behind the counter of the reception lies a bum in shorts — the installation of a Duane Hanson Traveller. Without art there step can not step — comers give iPad a guide to all the works of the collection. Sculpture of Niki de Saint Phalle adorns the terrace of the restaurant, “Woman with fruit” by Fernando Botero — patio and “Big retrospective painting” Andy Warhol — bar. The sculpture by Keith Haring’s hiding in the garden of spices, where chefs chef Heiko Nieder grows herbs for the kitchen. The sculpture collection at the Dolder Grand is the best in Zurich, the city where, for a moment, 50 museums. As a hotel, the meeting belongs to the financier Ursu Shwarzenberg and is estimated at 45 million Swiss francs.
Das Tyrol (Vienna, Austria)
The owner of the boutique hotel Das Tyrol Helena, Ramsbacher politician, hotelier and an avid collector of art and Prada boots. Your Assembly, Mrs. Ramsbacher with pleasure displays.
Collection of Ramsbacher would have done honor to any gallery of Europe here, and brooding realism of Bernard Ammerer, and abstract compositions Loretta State, and ironic designs Elke of Hualien and pine garden., including “Vegan” — something like a tribal African sculpture from the belly-aquarium full of vegetables. The hotel is located in the Museum quarter of Vienna, which creates a very pleasant context.
The Surrey (new York, USA)
Collection elegant hotel in Upper East side, a block from Central Park, has only 31 exhibit, but beautifully designed. The “age” instance of the collection is the portrait of Frida Kahlo of the work of Imogen Cunningham, taken in the 1930-ies. Most of the work belongs to the end of XX and beginning of XXI century. In the lobby guests looking Kate moss with a huge, full-wall murals Chuck close is undoubtedly the pearl of the collection. Presidential Suite is decorated with paintings Cecily brown 2003 — approximately the same period, another painting by the artist acquired by Elton John. A bonus to the collection is the restaurant Daniel Boulud, a favorite of new Yorkers, the French chef.
Waldorf Astoria (Rome, Italy)
Waldorf Astoria is located on the hill of Monte Mario, but boasts not only views of the city and a restaurant, La Pergola, the only one in Rome with three Michelin stars. The art collection of the hotel would envy and the Vatican, especially the Vatican of “the Young Pope”. Estimated value of the collection — the $700 million Park on a hill, the hotel owns a collection of Angelo Guido Terruzzi, Genoese, “the king of Nickel”. The hotel has more than 1,000 exhibits from the XVI to the XX century, works of art and historical artifacts, such as cradle ordered by Napoleon for his son. In the lobby, Tiepolo and the triptych tapestries from Beauvais XVII century. The suites of paintings by Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana. The art collection there and in other hotels Waldorf Astoria: for example, the Beijing — more than 600 works by contemporary Chinese artists and the Berlin — 900 works by graduates of the Berlin Academy of arts. But the Roman collection of a different caliber, it is in line with the Museum’s collections.
Lord Nelson, Lady Hamilton, Victory Hotel (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Collector’s Hotel is a three hotels in Stockholm belonging to the family Bengtsson. At the Lord Nelson in the Old town hosts a collection of artifacts related to the history of seafaring: ancient maps, ship models, commemorative coins, compasses, miniature sea battles in ivory with a depiction of Admiral Nelson. The hotel Lady Hamilton family was decorated with statues and paintings on the theme of the eternal feminine; at the reception guests are greeted by a wooden statue of the lady Hamilton. Victory Hotel put all that was left, but it is here in a glass case in the foyer is kept the pride of the family — a letter from Admiral Nelson to his lover lady Hamilton, dubbed the Marilyn Monroe of the XVIII century.
La Perla (Dolomites, Italy)
Alpine Chalet is crammed with curiosities: in the hallway — a showcase of ancient castles, on the stairs — an old chest, and the restaurant is a glassed-in wall clock. The owner of La Perla Michiel Costa — President of the local community, Ladin, Romansh peoples of the Dolomites, settled in the mountains in the days of Ancient Rome. Michiel wears a yellow coat with green neck scarf and sometimes involved in Cycling on a vintage unit early XX century with a huge wheel. Michiel is a passionate wine collector, the wine cellar is arranged as a games room: in the hall of sparkling sounds disco and dancing bottles, the hall of the white fly a virtual bird, and in the area of the tastings arranged in a waterfall. The heart of the collection — “the temple of Sassicaia”: room, floor to ceiling filled with bottles of supertuscan, and in a secret niche — a bottle of the first vintage brand.
Hotel L’orologio (Florence, Italy)
Boutique hotel on Piazza Santa Maria Novella evokes associations with Lewis Carroll through the looking Glass, not with the “Tale of time lost”: all over the dials — vintage analog, modern digital and art photography hours. Each floor is devoted to Sentry house — Patek Philippe, Rolex, Vacheron Constantin. Vintage wrist watches exhibited in the display cases in the lobby. Just a collection of hotelier Sandro Fratini more than 2000 copies. Initially as a Tuscan family, Fratini earned… jeans with their company Rifle Jeans, founded in 1958, one of the first to produce denim in Italy.
V8 Hotel Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)
V8 Hotel — part exhibition centre, Motor World in a hangar at the former airport. The hotel occupies a building of the dispatch center in the art Deco style. In the lobby a collection of racing cars, the most honoured of them — the 1920-ies. The cars used in the interiors of the rooms of the hotel: the beds in many rooms — a sort of centaurs, where the front part is made from the hood of car vintage Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes or Morris Minor. There are a number of “car Wash” brushes, “Cinema under the open sky” — with “Cadillac” and “Route 66” with a portrait of James Dean and an awning over the bed.
Andaz Amsterdam Prinzengracht (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Amsterdam hotel design division of the Hyatt is on the Prinsengracht, among art galleries and boutiques, and he recalls the Museum of modern art. The hotel has a patio garden which is the Dutch designer Marcel wanders has designed the works of Lewis Carroll: on the wall above the garden flaunts a huge graffiti murals “Alice in Amsterdam”. The garden apart screaming 12 statues of the princes is a homage to the name of the channel and the call of the author of the composition to leave childhood. Rooms wanders was decorated with colored fishes — they symbolize the openness of the Amsterdam players to change. And the hotel has a Blue room dedicated to delftware porcelain.
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