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DENVER — For the weary traveler, a $50,000 inflatable room to rest his head.
The room, sitting 22-feet in the air atop a van, is a part-art, part-hotel creation by artist Alex Schweder commissioned by the Biennial of Americas. Supposedly, it fits a bed, a couch, and a small half bathroom.
The “hotel rehearsal” room and its amenities can be rented for $50,000 a night. But there’s more: the Denver’s Curtis Hotel, the temporary home to the hotel rehearsal, is offering guests of the room a Lloyd in the Sky with Diamonds package. A weekend one-night stay includes the following:
- A dimmed, groovy lounge-style limousine stocked with cocktails and snacks for your rides to and from the airport
- 60s themed party for 100 friends at the hotel’s lounge and “Stargazer Floor” ballroom
- Brunch for two at the Corner Office Restaurant & Martini Bar
- A stocked 60s themed closet, as well as a private shopper to help you buy proper party attire
- A welcome from Sonny & Cher impersonators
- An iPad mini and a set of Swarovski binoculars for stargazing from your room
- Two iPod nanos filled with your favorite 60s tunes
This is not Schweder’s first use of inflatable plastic in his “performance architecture” installations.
According to his website, performance architecture “is based on the notion that relationships between occupied spaces and occupying subjects are permeable. This is to say that a subject first perceives his or her environment and is then changed by that perception. This person in turn alters their environment to make it correspond to their fantasy. This process continues until the scrimmage of objects and subjects produces an architecture where referring to the two as distinct becomes irrelevant.”
