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Since opening his own Amsterdam studio in 1995, Wanders has emerged as one of Europe's most varied design talents, producing work for the likes of Flos, Puma, Boffi and Cappellini. Like his peers Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid, Wanders has a penchant for the witty and the fantastical, with an instantly recognizable aesthetic that blurs the boundaries between form and function, organic and fabricated. It also comes with a dose of Mad Hatter craziness. A Wanders chair, for instance, may be fashioned from crocheted flowers or pieces of knotted resin. A stool arrives hewn from precisely cut doilies...
...Smith, a U.K.-based industry expert and founder of rail-travel website seat61.com. "On routes of three hours or less, you get to your destination faster and more comfortably than by air. And which is more glamorous these days: a high-tech Eurostar train with interiors designed by Philippe Starck and Christian Lacroix, or a crammed Ryanair plane that asks you to pay to use the restroom?" Perhaps train travel will become quintessentially European once again...
Each of the 48 rooms and suites contains an original chair - created by notables like Philippe Starck and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - which the hotel's Hungarian designers used as inspiration to produce artwork unique to each room. A curvaceous white Verner Panton chair, for instance, became the bride that inspired a wall panel on marriage. "Every corner has another story to tell," says Zsuzsa Szkurka, the hotel's director...
When Philippe Starck designed the Royalton Hotel, there were lamps that resembled animal horns and a champagne bar shaped like the inside of a bottle. "In the '80s, the boutique hotel was about design," says Starck. "Today we want something completely different. We don't speak about design." Starck's latest endeavor is SLS Hotels, a new brand meant to "re-explode" the luxury-hotel experience. The first property, SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, opens next month. Rather than the flashy design motifs of the past, the emphasis is on quieter indulgences. Design retailer Murray Moss will select objects...
...side for a serene, low-key experience; on the other, you get a hopping, nightclub-like scene (the owner also owns several L.A. clubs). Located between Beverly Hills and Hollywood, the hotel has a pool, tapas bar, pâtisserie and Spanish restaurant, plus furnishings designed by Philippe Starck. According to the hotel's rep, the designer's innovation was to put the bed in the middle of the room, so the "businessman can work while watching his wife sleep." 465 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles...