John Graham-Cumming became to so used to going without television for 12 months at home, that he almost didn’t notice the TVs in the hotels he stayed at.
The real revelation came when I was staying in a hotel and for the first time ever simply didn’t switch the hotel TV on. I knew that [...]
If you don’t watch TV at home why would you in a hotel?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 12 February, 2010 to the comment subset
9 Hours and the reinvention of Japanese capsule hotels
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
The Japanese capsule hotel concept, where guests literally sleep in a space about the size of a single bed, has been given a classy make-over by Cubic Corp, who have recently opened a new style capsule hotel called 9 Hours.
Hotel room pasta, boil water in kettle and then add in pasta
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 24 August, 2009 to the comment subset
If you’re prepared to use kettles and irons that are to be found in most hotel suites – for purposes other than which they were designed – you also could cook up a storm in your own room as British comedian George Egg demonstrates.
Raising the bar in hotel interior design, the W Hotel New York
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 25 May, 2009 to the design and art subset
The boutique W Hotel group pull out all the stops when it comes to the interior design of their hotels as the opulence of the W New York demonstrates.
Also check out some shots of the W Hong Kong… “enough to turn a short stay in long one” as they say.
Any hotel room is a room with a view
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 December, 2008 to the photography subset
Commercial photographer Andrew Hetherington has taken photos of all the hotel rooms he stayed in over a four year period. I’d love to have the same travel allowance as he does…
Hotel rooms have always fascinated me, ever since I was a child. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a seedy motel by the side of a [...]
The only reason I went to Hong Kong was to see a hotel
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 17 October, 2008 to the design and art subset
I think the W-Hong-Kong hotel, which features the work of Australian designers Fabio Ongarato and Nicholas Graham, will make for another excuse to visit Hong Kong… and sooner rather than later at that.
Other standouts include the spectacular rooftop pool, featuring an incredible mega-scale mosaic of a butterfly graphic created by Australian designer Fabio Ongarato. The [...]
Pub sign photos
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 2 June, 2008 to the design and art subset
This is something we don’t quite have enough of here in Sydney, ornate, ye olde, style pub signs, that are almost a work of art in themselves.
Sunday 23 December 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 23 December, 2007 to the comment subset
7 of the smallest hostel and hotel rooms in the world: and why not. When you visit a far away place surely only having somewhere quiet and comfortable to sleep is all that really matters?
Think your last apartment or hotel room was small? Believe it or not, there are a lot of contenders for [...]
