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A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller’s bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room

By Samantha Edwards
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A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room
Hover over or tap red dots to see annotations. (Image: Gabby Frank)

Every year, the Gladstone Hotel hands the keys to its rooms to artists and designers. The resulting event, Come Up to My Room, is a showcase of absurdist interior design.

The 2016 edition, which runs until Sunday, January 24, includes over two dozen installations. The pièce de résistance is undoubtedly “Life Moves Fast” in room 214, where artists Sarah Keenlyside and Joseph Clement have painstakingly recreated Ferris’s bedroom from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, using authentic ‘80s props that they scoured from thrift stores and borrowed from acquaintences. Here’s a close-up look at that room, as well as a few others we enjoyed.

A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room
(Image: Gabby Frank)

“Breath,” by UUfie and the Ryerson School of Interior Design, turns a diaphanous sheet of fabric into a weird, gravity-defying piece of architecture.

A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room
(Image: Gabby Frank)

“Restoration Mediation,” a room of paper furniture, was designed and built by Michael Neville, a Detroit-based artist.

A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room
(Image: Gabby Frank)

An art collective called Taxa Work designed this moodily lit interior in room 205. It’s called “Overworld.”

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A handcrafted remake of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, and other highlights of Come Up to My Room
(Image: Gabby Frank)

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