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Article: HOTELS: Boutique extravaganza.(Brief article)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- July 20, 2006
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Aspirational yet transient, hotels are the perfect places for designers to show off their skills. Bethan Ryder gets a sneak preview of two contrasting projects by Ron Arad and David Collins
WHEN last year's headline-grabbing #52m design blockbuster the Hotel Puerta America opened in Madrid, it seemed our obsession with the boutique hotel had reached fever pitch. For some, such as Ian Schrager, lauded for igniting the phenomenon with the launch of New York's Morgans Hotel in 1984, it signalled the end. 'No taste, no style, no idea,' he railed.
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