Posts Tagged ‘lobby’

The Parker Hotel in Palm Springs

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The Parker

The Parker Hotel as photographed by Chimay Bleue, who has produced one of my favourite collections of photos of modernist architecture on Flickr. I’ll do a series of posts using his photos if he will let me. Look at the perforated screen wall outside – why don’t we see these screens around my part of the world? Because no one wants to pressure wash the moss off? Fantastic lobby, with an indoor version of a midcentury modern screen.

Parker Palm Springs Hotel

This town isn’t big enough for the three of us.

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Design black hole, Hotel Monaco, DC

Seen in the lobby of the Hotel Monaco, Washington, DC. We gathered here for a drink, and I couldn’t get past this United Nations of design in the corner. Sorry about the photo, which exhibits that unique iPhone lack of any photographic excellence whatsoever.