adventures

time to visit places, take photos.. produce art. first stop, hotels. a journey around the luxurious world of high end boutique and art hotels to get an idea of what we're getting ourselves into, and to hopefully figure the following:

• who's the market?
• how will the fabrics be used?
• how often hotels refurb rooms .. how long does the fabric need to last??
• what kind of styles do the hotels go for?

pictures to follow once ive uploaded them to my computer from these trips. 

i did discover, generally the market here is for the over 25s, the pricing of rooms putting most of them out of reach for students sadly! but for professional types, couples, honeymooners, weddings, people who've retired.. generally people with a taste for luxury and with the cash flow to aid this. the hotels usually offer family rooms, though a few in the city centre of manchester, one being Velvet, only had double or king rooms.. no rooms for more than 2 people. not entirely children friendly! i found that many of the smaller hotels chose to have a different theme for each room, varying drastically between them. giving an exciting wealth of fabrics and styles, leaving much scope for me as the designer, and for our whole group when choosing a colour theme to run with for our range.