Photo provided by London art-architecture studio Atmos and shows ‘Dreamscape’, a new room at the Ice Hotel Sweden.
London art-architecture studio atmos has just opened Dreamscape, a new type of hotel room for a new type of Ice Hotel – the ?365? at ICEHOTEL Sweden, which will offer its guests icy escapes all year round.
Dreamscape presents an entirely new form of art suite, physically dramatising the mental journey into sleep and dreams.
A carpet of ice welcomes the visitor at the door, and whisks them up a dramatically curling ice stair (imprinted with an intricate unfurling pattern of radiating ?grip? grooves), widening to become a welcoming bed held aloft far above the floor.
Ice tentacles burst from the rear wall of the room to frame the bed, curling downwards as sculptural columns that bury into the snowy floor, or as pincers that carry the stair treads towards the door. Snow tentacles rise like unleashed four-poster-bed columns, and melt sideways into ceiling and walls, diving like ceremonial worms around the ice stair, protecting the new views afforded by the elevated vantage point.
?We realised that the thrilling austerity of the room furnishings (there?s nothing in any room except for a bed) would allow us to focus on that great unspoken and unrevealed experience that we each share each night – the journey into our psyche.? explains atmos director Alex Haw.
?Our design visualises the drama of that nocturnal journey we all partake in, enwrappe...