For Art's Sake

Forget that basic hotel experience and satisfy your inner Picasso by visiting these art-inspired hotels.

- Shruti Jain

The Pantone

The undisputed colour authority, Pantone, has extended its colour utopia into a hotel in Belgium. From a design perspective, The Pantone Hotel is built on an exceptional use of contrast; a white canvas provides clean space for saturated colours to pop. The sparsely furnished white rooms and suites create breathing space for photographs of Brussels’s more lurid urban features - a red bridge here, striped blue and white flags there - by the Belgian photographer Victor Levy. Each of the fifty-nine rooms and suites is outfitted in one of seven carefully designed colour palettes, as pure demonstration as we’ve ever seen of the mood-altering effects of colour, a gesture meant to entice customers to select a room to match their mood. You’ll find out in a hurry if red is your colour, or if green happens to be more restful.

The Park