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It is just one of many modern artworks and design pieces personally selected for the hotel by designer and gallery curator Rabih Hage. The plaster chandelier with orange shades above is by Patrice Gruffaz. Other significant works include trompe l’oeil images of various Italian palazzo by Massimo Listri, Susan Shup’s “Over Here” oil-on-canvas, and a photographic portrait of Gilbert & George by Jonathan Root.]]> http://sleeper.net-genie.co.uk/checkout/208793/buckets_of_fun.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48 +0000
The brief was a loose one, to “utilise objects and materials typical for Hamburg but implement them in new ways and re-assign their functions.” Hence beer crates from a local brewery have been upholstered with genuine leather and transformed into stools. Pallets serve as frames for the couches, vases are made out of wine bottles, and paper cups are transformed into chandeliers.]]> http://sleeper.net-genie.co.uk/checkout/208796/one_whitehall_place.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:50 +0000
But at the time the photo was taken, the hotel’s 280 guestrooms had been block-booked by the Treasury for officials involved in talks between the major banks and the Chancellor Alistair Darling. The talks resulted in a multi-billion pound bailout of British banks, subsequently heralded as having averted a meltdown of the financial markets.]]>