The next time you’re in France, make sure to check out this place. It’s Au Vieux Panier, a modern hotel in Marsille that has taken a progressive approach to interior design. Each hotel room features an artist or designer (rotating annually), that transforms a carte-blanche “3-Dimensional Canvas” into a stunning work of art. This particular room, aptly named, “Panic Room” was designed the graffiti artist, Tilt, who chose to approach the design as an installation. By slicing the room in half and graffiti-ing every square inch of one half of the room (down to cups and pencils), the space becomes a visual juxtaposition of calm versus chaos. It’d be interesting to keep a dream journal next to the nightstand…

yeeeow! flights booked…

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i’m feeling a little bit like i’m running up the down staircase to catch up here after all my time away. there’s no rest for the wicked! but, at least it inspired me. i love staircases, don’t you? there’s something romantic about them, and i remember as a kid, always wishing we lived in a two-story house, instead of our suburban single level tract home. so dullsville! i think there’s some kind of hopeful anticipation to a staircase, always wondering what awaits you at either end.

love everything about this room, and its pretty spiral staircase.

how about hot pink staircase. i say, ‘oh yes!’,and a spiral version.

a very hot tin staircase (above) and a very mod one (below).

i love the jet black stairs.