LLOVE STORY
LLOVE HOTEL TOKYO

When I first was being approached by Suzanne Oxenaar to design a room for this temporary Love hotel, I discovered that a Love Hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found in Japan operated primarily for the purpose of allowing couples privacy to have sexual intercourse.

But the word "Love" refers specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love. In the philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness and compassion. For some people love is not even just a virtue, but the basis for all being.

And here the concept of my room was being born. The design had to be about the emotion, the romance and the compassion of love. I did not want to design a room for sexual intercourses but a room where one and another feels "loved". But how to translate such wonderful but complex feelings into a design?

I decided to work with light. Because but whether light is visible to the eye or not, a really interesting aspect of light is that we "feel" light. This is because of the electromagnetic radiation of the wavelengths and also the temperature. That’s the reason why in many legends sunsets or moonlight are an important part, it is magical and touches our emotions.

But it s not just about the light in this room. You think you enter a regular hotel-room, but when you have a closer look, you see that the objects behave peculiar; The bed is crawling up the wall! Chairs seem to have melted together.. Lights are entangled and the toothbrushes are totally into one and another.

What else would you expect from a Llove hotel:

Everything has fallen in Llove!

2010