Highsnobiety x Hotel Amour: Not In Paris Drop #4

"I like to create spaces, spaces for me are art," André Saraiva, the co-founder of Hôtel Amour, tells Highsnobiety via email. If you have had the pleasure of walking into one of his spaces and experiencing its charm, this will come as no surprise.

The hotel is as much a conceptual playground as it as a place for guests to lay their heads: each bedroom is outfitted with a wildly different concept (often provided by an artist friend), no two floors have the same colored walls, and with each turn you are greeted by an (often highly erotic or abstract) piece of decoration.

Saraiva is an artist in his own right, beginning as a graffiti artist in the 90s where he would spray his alter-ego Mr. A across the city and, eventually, worldwide. The decor in his infamous hotels in many ways reflects his street art and subsequent gallery work: it's unpretentious, experimental, and has a lot of pink.

This isn't a coincidence, "I’d always wanted to live in one of my drawings. To open a door to it and step inside," he says.

The hotel fulfills this fantasy to an extent and much of it is decorated with items from his personal life — inside you can find his artworks that needed a home, the furniture from the Parisian apartment that he sold to move into the hotel, and a variety of pieces he has picked up in vintage markets. It makes it a hugely personal space, which is something that can't be said of many hotels. He says, "when I’m in Paris I live at the hotel. For me, it’s home, and I want people to feel the same."

Text taken from www.highsnobiety.com