Dutch Design (2): The College Hotel

Amsterdam College Hotel Front
The Amsterdam College Hotel Front

The College Hotel is being created by a local hospitality school in the Amsterdam Musea Area. It is expected to open officially on December 22, 2004. Not only a hotel in an old school, but also a hotel that will serve for the students of the hospitality school as practice on the job. It will be operated by the Spanish Stein Hotels Group.

English answer to sleeping in a wine barrel: Yotel

Yotel

The designers of the Airbus have developped cabins that you can push and shove into a building.

Push 20 cabins in a warehouse and you have a Yotel.

Hoteliers can order the cabins at Yotel.

Fashion makers into hotels

Miauw

Analik has her own fashion label and a shop in Amsterdam (9 streets shopping area).

Now she has purchased a property in Antwerpen where she will start a new shop and a hotel. In autumn she will open a hotel next to her Amsterdam shop. More to follow under the name: Miauw Suites.

Other fashion makers preceded her:

The Madder, The better

Havenkraan Harlingen - 17.jpg

Today’s trend seems: The madder the location of your hotelbed, the better!

Some examples:

Beds

Christian Zuzunaga Pixelated Bed

Beds

Hotel chains are developing their own beds. Some are for sale at the hotel.

Update: Added the photo of the pixelated bed by Christian Zuzunaga