Berlin’s Propeller Island City Lodge may be the most bizarre example of the artist-designed hotel trend. Each of the 30 rooms is radically different in its decor, its theme, and its presuppositions, and each may delight or appall you with its quirks. This innovative and unique hotel made up of 30 themed rooms is the brilliant work of German artist Lars Stroschen from the Distorted Room, where the floor steeply slopes and nothing is quite right to the Dwarves Room, only 1.4 m high and full of small woodland people, from the Forest room, where your mattress floats on a series of logs surrounded by red walls through to the Gruft room, where your two separate beds are white coffins. Therapie is an all-white, minimalist room whose mood changes with the color of the lighting, which you can adjust at will. “The main idea behind Propeller Island,” explains Stroschen “was to try out my fantasies, to see if they could work.”Something difficult to see every day – the aesthetic sensation for the eye and the ear. Some of the materials are a lot more sensitive than usual: the plexiglass is easily scratched, as are the dark and intense wall-colours when you slide your bags upon them – only to take only two examples. The furniture was custom-made for this hotel, every single piece of furniture is a unique piece, from the doors to the sinks that are made of old beer barrels in some rooms. That is the nature of these materials and you cannot change it – except if you want a boring hotel.

Some impressions from the most spectacular rooms:

The Flying Bed Room has a slanted floor and a bed which makes grandma’s bed seem to fly. The wardrobe comes out of the wall, but the table has got to stay put! Flying Bed places a mattress as an iconic temple at the top of an inclined ramp, giving your bed a cultish importance. Mirror Room -Definitely one of City Lodge’s highlights. The diamond-shaped room is completely laid out with mirrors and gives you the impression of living in a kaleidoscope. Caution: Very sexy! The Gruft room – In both coffins you can even slumber beneath closed lids! An will be opening soon: exclusively connoisseur room for all those “Nosferatus” who cannot wait for that which awaits us all. Whoever has second thoughts can creep to the bed place below, safe within the labyrinth. Not only a unique experience for Gothic die-hards…an exquisite location on top of that! The Upside Room has all the furnishings on the ceiling and you sleep in boxes under the floorboards.

A Tubular Room with three consecutively ordered, terraced beds. The floor is hilly and even the wands are tilted! Like being in a mine – isn’t that a lift there in the corner…? The Orange Room – Pure orange tones and minimalistic forms provide for true relaxation and bestow your sun-hungry countenance with a healthy complexion. Two Lions Room -The most popular and lavish room is Propeller Island’s version of the standard presidential suite. It’s hard not think dirty thoughts about this, the largest room, which houses two cages that are set upon two five-foot-high stilts. Sleeping in a cage. Dual cages, situated in the centre of this spacious menagerie, rest on stilts measuring 1.5 meters tall and await applause from the neighbouring guest. Your curtain presides over what your audience sees and what not!