“Because to sleep is perchance to dream”

After a quick peek and a cocktail at the incredibly imaginative and surreal Maison Moschino in Milan recently (this is the bar/reception), we’ve been dying to go back to experience a night or two at this dreamy, former neoclassical railway station, now fairytale themed hotel.

In the hotel’s own words: “Entering the Maison Moschino is like falling down the rabbit hole: after a while you come to expect the unexpected”.

So, which dream? Well, we’re not quite decided yet…. ‘sleeping in a ballgown’, ‘blue room’ or ‘forest’. Or maybe just a night in each?

Take a look for yourself: Maison Moschino

Window dressing

The windows that caught our eye this Christmas [Old Bond Street & Knightsbridge, London].

Star

We love the colour and vibrancy of this wall and neon sign at the National Maritime Museum in London. And the photography exhibition just behind it really is a ‘feel-good’ gem.

Wish you were here?

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?

A Photograph

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” [Brigitte Bardot]

Image Is (Almost) Everything

Information and functionality are great, but today’s top hotel Web sites thrive on pretty pictures—and lots of them.
By Adam Kirby, Associate Editor — Hotels, 4/1/2009

No matter how sophisticated your hotel’s Web site—whether it has Ajax or Flash built in, whether it features embedded video or virtual tours—none of it matters half as much as some old-fashioned stunning photography.
“On photography, you can’t spend too much—you are your images,” says Adam R. Cagle, managing director of 689 Design, a Long Beach, California-based firm with several boutique hotel clients. “We could honestly fill some luxury properties’ [sites] with just great photos and a ‘Book Now’ button… A well-conceived photo shoot that highlights a property’s best features and provides the viewer a tantalizing window into the atmosphere of a hotel is essential to a Web site’s success.”

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