world’s most unusual hotels… wanderlust hotel

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Karen Haller

Wanderlust hotel - Industrial Glam - hotel lobby. Wanderlust hotel - Industrial Glam - lobby. This opens a new business window.

In the fourth of my world’s most unusual hotels series, I’m featuring the Wanderlust hotel, located in Little India, Singapore.

The owner of this four storey boutique hotel gave four design agencies an entire floor each and full creative freedom to design whatever they wanted.  And design they did, letting their imaginations run wild, resulting in four ‘in-your-face’ themes – ‘Industrial Glam’, ‘Eccentricity’, ‘Is it just black and white?’ and ‘Creature Comforts’.   This concept was the brainchild of hip hotelier Loh lik Peng.

Wanderlust hotel - Industrial Glam - lobby. This opens a new business window.

Wanderlust hotel. Ground floor lobby 'Industrial Glam' featuring is a juxtaposition of the hotel's location and contemporary design.

Wanderlust hotel - Eccentricity - single colour. This opens a new browser window.

Wanderlust hotel. Second floor 'Eccentricity' for those who love their Pantone colour charts. Each room rendered in a single colour.

Wanderlust hotel - Black and white - mono deluxe. This opens a new browser window.

Wanderlust hotel. Third floor 'Is it just Black and White' featuring animated scenes of stenciled art installtions.

Wanderlust hotel - Creature comforts - whimiscal typewriter. This opens a new browser window.

Wanderlust hotel. Top floor 'Creature Comforts' offering friendly monsters as companions to the lonely traveller. This room's theme is the whimiscal typewriter.

Next time you’re down Singapore way on a stop over, this hotel would be well worth checking out.  It’s all a bit surreal, like an adult’s Alice In Wonderland.

All photos with the permission and courtesy of the Wanderlust Hotel.

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4 Comments

  1. Decor Girl (@TheDecorGirl) on June 16, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Very nice! I love the stenciled art installations, interesting way to expand the space. Neat hotel! Thanks for enlightening.

    • admin on June 17, 2011 at 5:17 pm

      Hi Lisa,

      It certainly is. And definitely a hotel full of personality!

  2. PaintyCait on June 24, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    I am not sure I could sleep or spend too much time in the Pantone rooms but I too love the black and white…I really like the eclectic public spaces and the use of texture

    • admin on June 26, 2011 at 10:09 am

      It’s certainly an intense colour experience!

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