Design exhibitions can be a bit frustrating, especially when the works on show—say, an Eames lounge chair just pleading to be sat on—are behind glass. But now that the fashion-, design-, and decorative arts–focused Röhsska Museum has paired up with Sweden's Avalon Hotel, you can look, touch, and swivel with verve.
In conjunction with the museum's Past-Present-Future exhibition (through September 30), design covetables from the collection have been replicated in the hotel's public areas and key guest rooms. Our faves include a tangerine Verner Panton Cone chair, a classic of late 1950s Scandinavian modernism; the full-size Horse lamp and Pig tray tables, quirks of design stars Moooi; and a DVD of Swedish FRONT design group's Blow Away Vase, showing in the elevators. Free workshops and design tours are offered for the truly obsessed. How novel: design that's actually within reach—at least for a night
The hotel with its 101 rooms and 202 beds form the basis of our offering. It is here that much of what creates the Avalon experience is to be found. The architecture and the location create an impression to a high degree. We are a feng-shui certified hotel where furnishing, lighting, fragrance and sounds play a large role. We see it as a matter of course that good food and drink are part of good hotel service. Avalon Hotel offer a full service in the hotels own garage.
Avalon Hotel
9 Kungstorget
Göteborg, Sweden
Tel: 46 031 751 02 00
By: concierge.com & avalonhotel.se
