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Forget that basic hotel experience and satisfy your inner Picasso by visiting these artinspired hotels

It almost feels like you are sleeping inside a painting in these hotels

Theundisputed 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 distinguishing feature of Tokyo’s Park Hotel’s architecture is the rounded triangular prism form of the building’s profile. To differentiate themselves from other hotels, they brought in a new concept, which promotes Japanese-style hospitality. With regard to each of the hotel’s foundations, ARTAtrium, restaurant and travel, they rolled out new initiatives that incorporated art and enabled first-hand experience of Japanese aesthetics. All guests arriving at the Park Hotel Tokyo first witness the Atrium, which is spread through ten floors. Through the glass windows behind the reception counter, visitors can see the Tokyo Tower, which shows different scenery from day to night. At the restaurant and bar, the “food artists (including the head chefs)” materialise their own artistic ideas according to the ART colour themes. Their “Artist in Hotel” is the hotel version of “Artist in Residence.” All guestrooms on the artist floor are painted by the artists directly on to the walls. Each individual room is a piece of work itself.