I want to be hotelier Sean MacPherson when I grow up! He cuts his own hair and is co-owner of the Maritime Hotel amongst others.  

Here’s the post about my visit to the Maritime Hotel in New York.  

Top 10 ideas from Springwise’s Tourism and Travel section over the last 12 months!  

Yes please! More travellers instead of tourists for Barcelona!  

Can we find a building like the old cooperage in Brooklyn that is now the Wythe Hotel in Barcelona? That’d be nice…  

This would be a great event to do at our hotel in Barcelona as in Catalonia it’s all about mongetes and faves! killtherecipe: cool beans @kinfolkstudios with compass green august 26th. details here. illos @lucyengelman

Enzo Mari’s Barcelona Manifesto from 1999 should still be followed by designers; now more than ever! “Barcelona Manifesto The utopizing tension of the origins of design must be recovered. If this is the allegory of a possible transformation, then it should reach […]

Originally designed by Droog for dirty hotel bathroom floors, we think this is still a cool mat, even for clean hotels! Also check out Hotel Droog.  

PleaseBringMe.com is a great social way to connect travellers with locals by having them exchange goods and services… imagine hotel guests from around the world bringing in exotic products to swap! Angel Mule (by mmMule) connect people to deliver stuff to organisations […]

Here is what current Spanish design can look like: Jaleo restaurant by Juli Capella.  

This is why our hotel will be in Barcelona! Enjoy Peret’s rumba catalana “Barcelona Hechicera”. The guy was a legend and lives on in our hearts!   Top photo by Joan Cortadevellas for DiarioCordoba

Here you can read Allan Chochinov’s 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainable Design. Good to take into consideration when designing a hotel (or anything else).  

Chairs = multi-functional, minimum use of material “clothes cupboard”… nice idea for a hotel room, don’t you think? Via hilkar.mx

At Hotel droog* new things were added to a shabby one-star hotel without changing anything! It was about “integration of the new and the existing, the special and the common, the ugly and the beautiful, perfection and imperfection, illusion and reality”. I […]

Really cool hotel concept, this Pixel Hotel in Linz! Pixel Hotel invites its guests to spend their stay in Linz residing in not-your-everyday accommodations—in a Pixelhotel providing a very unconventional sort of lodging. The individual rooms and suites are dispersed throughout the […]