Named the best hotel project of 2010 by Interior Design Magazine, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona was one of Patricia Urquiola’s latest projects, which featured and highlighted her bathroom series from Axor Urquiola.
Located by Antonio Gaudi’s Casa Batlló, the lavish Mandarin Hotel is well suited for the stylish and avant-garde city of Barcelona and Patricia Urquiola was able to do this through her modern aesthetics. The same charm, chic and sleek contemporary design of her bathroom series is featured all throughout the rest of the luxury hotel, in the hallways, restaurant, and in all 98 suites of the Mandarin Oriental. Urquiola created this vibrant space using the same fresh, unusual shapes that were found in her bathroom pieces and she was able to compliment the bathrooms by fusing the bathroom’s minimalist pieces and modern aesthetics throughout the hotel.
I really like the architecture of the building. Did Patricia design it? The way the windows overlap each other and create such beautiful geometric shapes on the building with a yellow colour lighting framing the cutouts is really asthetically pleasing. The way these windows are also arranged where they're uniform in shape but varied in sizes and length creates such a huge impact visually but in such a simplistic way. Sometimes the simplest things speak the loudest and in this case it does.
ReplyDeleteAlso the white acrylic wall panels with the decorative design kind of reminds me of the Herman Miller logo or even Mercedes Benz haha. But it's interesting to see it being used in only a portion of the wall. I'm not sure if I like it entirely. It would feel kind of weird walking under it. I wonder how low it drops down. If someone was really tall...I wonder if they'd hit their head on it. I guess they wouldn't since it only goes as far as the ceiling height of the first floor but I'm not a fan of it. In my opinion, it feels really out of place in this space. It doesn't match the classical style chairs and tables. Also, the architecture was focused on strong use of lines and angular shapes. The washroom was very modern and used alot of clean, simple lines. And then this design with curvilinear lines and shapes shows up out of no where and feels like it has just been slapped onto the walls. I'm sure there was a reason for the choice in this material and design but to me it feels out of place.
- Tiffany May
She loves her patterns. This is a very Patricia Urquiola type of design! She often includes geometric, feminine, or whimsical patterns in her interiors and furniture. She's also included herself in rug and carpet designs as well as wallpapers and furniture made from marble! I wouldn't be surprised even if she's created a patent for some of her patterns!!
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I do love her patterns but that white geometric shaped pattern just doesn't feel right with the very linear, rectilinear shape of the building as well as the interior of the hotel rooms. Does she have a collection line for her patterns?
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