Hotel Design Quotes

“If today's theme parks are, in the words of the Italian writer Umberto Eco, 'allegories of consumer society', then 'experience' hotels embody its creative desires - the material counterparts, both subtle and striking in their effects, of changes in behavior and expectations. A hotel stay is almost always a transitory experience - giving the sense of a life dipped into - and this fact has shaped the hotel as a genre. Where else can personal identity be changed more freely and with less inhibition, albeit for a short time? In a hotel anyone can pretend to be different from what he or she is in ordinary life. 'No one is concerned with others in a big hotel. Everyone is alone with themselves. In their room, everyone is alone with their ego and no "you" can be reached or held.”
― RIEWOLDT OTTO, Hotel Design