ICEHOTEL, the Swedish art hotel located 124 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is offering guests the opportunity to design a suite alongside an ICEHOTEL designer.
The suite will express the individual style and taste of the client and will be made exclusively by order. With this individual edge, ICEHOTEL creators are hoping to get the client involved in the design process.
“We want to create a forum in which guests can express their own design ideas and experiment with ice as an art material,” says Arne Bergh, ICEHOTEL’s creative director. “The beauty of ice is that it only exists briefly and then goes away, and it unleashes an incredible creativity in people.”
The suites, like ICEHOTEL itself, are made of the natural ice from the River Torne and all the artwork inside is original and handmade. Torne is one of the last untouched rivers of Europe and is free of pollutants-making the blocks harvested from the river completely transparent and without air bubbles.
Each suite will be made exclusively for the client and after their departure will be left to melt. Once it is gone, clients will be given a bottle containing some of the melted water, along with the sketches and blueprints for the design and photographs of the suite.
