Slideshow: the Gladstone Hotel’s weird makeover for Come Up To My Room 2014
Slideshow: the Gladstone Hotel’s weird makeover for Come Up To My Room 2014
Each year, for its annual Come Up To My Room event, the Gladstone Hotel temporarily transforms itself into a kind of art-world funhouse. Many parts of the building, but especially the rooms on the second floor, get sublimely strange makeovers by different designers, and visitors are free to wander through. It’s like exploring a series of walk-in dioramas—some lovely, others totally demented. The experience is worthwhile in itself, but it also works as counterprogramming for the annual Interior Design Show, which is as businesslike as Come Up to My Room is dark and mysterious.
Here are some photos of this year’s Come Up To My Room installations. The event runs until Sunday, January 26, and admission costs $10.
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- <em>Common Thread</em>, by Kathleen Wicks
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- <em>Confessional</em>, by Christine Kim and Vanathy Ganesharajah
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- <em>Cracking Shells of Modernism</em>, by Claire Scherzinger
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- <em>Creatures of Comfort</em>, by Sisley Leung
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- <em>Escapespace</em>, by Robert Giusti, Evelyne Au-Navioz, Raymundo Pavan and Nikki Shih
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- <em>Fall of the Walled Garden</em>, by Azero, ALSO Collective, and Mason Studio
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- <em>Get Out of My Room</em>, by The Torontonians and Mammalian Diving Reflex
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- <em>Get Out of My Room</em>, by The Torontonians and Mammalian Diving Reflex
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- <em>Go Sit in the Corner</em>, by Betti Gott and Megan Blake
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- <em>Hanging Matters</em>, by Jordan Evans, Ryla Jakelski and Evan Jerry, with Lois Weinthal
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- <em>Hanging Matters</em>, by Jordan Evans, Ryla Jakelski and Evan Jerry, with Lois Weinthal
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- <em>Gut Feelings</em>, by Shannon Scanlan
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- <em>Tin Canyon</em>, Andrew Forester
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Each year, for its annual Come Up To My Room event, the Gladstone Hotel temporarily transforms itself into a kind of art-world funhouse. Many parts of the building, but especially the rooms on the second floor, get sublimely strange makeovers by different designers, and visitors are free to wander through. It's like exploring a series of walk-in dioramas—some lovely, others totally demented. The experience is worthwhile in itself, but it also works as counterprogramming for the annual Interior Design Show, which is as businesslike as Come Up to My Room is dark and mysterious.
Here are some photos of this year's Come Up To My Room installations. The event runs until Sunday, January 26, and admission costs $10.
See all 14 photos »
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