harry nuriev's 'room thirty-six' reimagines legendary parisian hotel in hot pink - Designboom

Harry Nuriev splashes blistery pinkish successful country thirty-six

New York and Paris-based creator and decorator Harry Nuriev – Crosby Studios laminitis – interprets Hôtel La Louisiane successful Saint-Germain-des-Prés arsenic a site-specific, metaverse, and mixed-reality installation exploding successful blistery pink, pixelated walls, and under-surveillance visitors done a virtual CCTV camera. Titled Room Thirty-Six, the installation volition beryllium unfastened to the nationalist from October 20th to 23rd arsenic portion of the Bienvenue Art Fair, which volition besides show a enactment of curated projects, each occupying a mythical country wrong the famed hotel. Following its debut astatine Bienvenue Art Fair, Room Thirty-Six volition stay successful spot astatine the spot wherever visitors tin publication a enactment successful the futuristic-designed space.

Aside from the carnal installation and metaverse experience, Nuriev has developed a constricted postulation of NFTs wherever buyers tin ticker radical successful the edifice linger successful the halls done a CCTV information camera (talk astir being successful a world TV show). Each depicts a antithetic presumption of the virtual situation – the waiting area, courtyard, and elevator – with conscionable 33 copies disposable of each variation. NFT owners volition person an NFT country cardinal 1 week aft buying immoderate of the NFT tapes, providing them entree to an explorable mentation of Room Thirty-Six wrong the metaverse, an annex to the 3D exemplary that they and their avatars antecedently explored successful the metaverse.

images courtesy of Crosby Studios | image: Room 36 | header image: Lounge of La Louisiane Metaverse

Accompanied by a postulation of information camera images & NFTs

Hôtel La Louisiane has 3 oval rooms, and with Room Thirty-Six, Harry Nuriev picks the largest 1 – the abstraction favored by artists, writers, musicians, and actors since the 1930s – to beryllium transformed into his metaverse and pixelated installation. He splashes explosive shades of magenta-like pink, decorates the walls with pixels, and adds sculptural furnishings pieces and a circular furniture framework reminiscent of a emotion hotel. A comprehensive, hotel-wide virtual rendition of La Louisiane is besides waiting for the visitors successful the metaverse should they privation to cheque that out. The edifice lobby, cafeteria, and gardens bash not flight Nuriev’s show arsenic the creator besides works connected these spaces with his signature hypnotic and psychedelic design.

Nuriev sees Hôtel La Louisiane arsenic legendary and feels arsenic though the past is contiguous with anyone who steps successful it. He reveres the walls arsenic an emblem of history, reverberating the vigor that the room’s  erstwhile guests near erstwhile they stayed successful it. Somehow, helium feels arsenic if this vigor continues to linger and present watches guests. ‘This sensation extends done the Hôtel La Louisiane, wherever it feels arsenic though individuals from the past stay with us, watching america spell done our mundane motions,’ he shares. ‘This is what inspired the postulation of information camera images and NFTs. I wanted to concisely ideate past guests of the edifice — some dormant and live — are contiguous with us,  witnessing america research the metaverse. For guests similar Simone de Beauvoir, Nan Goldin, Jean-Paul Sartre and others, the cameras would connection a model into our existent mixed world and a mode to spot the immense change.’

Room 36

Room 36 has been location to singers, directors, and creatives

Bienvenue Art Fair Founder Olivier Robert comments that successful Room Thirty-Six, the lack of beardown angles gives the content of a country forgotten, near down astatine the precise extremity of the third-floor corridor. ‘In this mode the abstraction lends itself to each forms of instauration and archetypal layouts,’ he says. Historically, country 36 – the existent country – is 1 of La Louisiane’s astir mythical rooms considering that Barbet Schroeder filmed scenes from his film ‘More successful the space’ successful it and vocalist Amanda Lear concisely resided successful it. ‘It has garnered an illustrious bequest implicit the years, causing individuals similar Quentin Tarantino and truthful galore others to continually petition this country and not different erstwhile visiting,’ Robert adds. With Room Thirty-Six, Harry Nuriev gives a privileged accidental to the outsiders to peek wrong the famed edifice country ala metaverse.

Room 36

bathroom of Room 36

bathroom of Room 36

toilet of Room 36