These Surreal Guesthouses with Impossible Staircases Have Alice in Wonderland Vibes
Pastel pink and forest green rooms inspire cotton candy dreams and a surrealist forest in this modern labyrinth of guesthouses.
Take a trip down the rabbit hole through these maze-like, green and pink guest homes, in Guilin, China. By the Li River, studio 10 has recently added two new whimsical, creative guesthouses: Dream (in pink) and Maze (in green), to the collection of 10 unique, themed vacation homes at The Other Place – Guilin Litopia.
Yi Feifei, the owner of the hotel, had commissioned studio 10’s principal Shi Zhou to create something ethereal, dreamlike and fun for the two 650-square-foot rooms. With pitched roofs and unusually high 23-foot-high ceilings that resemble a chapel, Shi had a lot to play with.
These guesthouses are rampant with colorful visual illusions and fantastical tricks. According to the designers, the studio’s themed rooms were inspired by the style of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, who was famous for designs of impossible objects, and who obsessed over the intricate concepts and visualizations of infinity, symmetry, hyperbolic geometry and truncations. Escher’s Relativity. Pictured here are some of the “impossible staircases” that Escher designed, that defy gravity, or have you walking upside down.
It’s easy to see how Dream and Maze resemble Escher’s work. The architects sought to create a “mysterious, infinite and impossible space with the seamless transformation amongst 2D and 3D as...
Take a trip down the rabbit hole through these maze-like, green and pink guest homes, in Guilin, China. By the Li River, studio 10 has recently added two new whimsical, creative guesthouses: Dream (in pink) and Maze (in green), to the collection of 10 unique, themed vacation homes at The Other Place – Guilin Litopia.
Yi Feifei, the owner of the hotel, had commissioned studio 10’s principal Shi Zhou to create something ethereal, dreamlike and fun for the two 650-square-foot rooms. With pitched roofs and unusually high 23-foot-high ceilings that resemble a chapel, Shi had a lot to play with.
These guesthouses are rampant with colorful visual illusions and fantastical tricks. According to the designers, the studio’s themed rooms were inspired by the style of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, who was famous for designs of impossible objects, and who obsessed over the intricate concepts and visualizations of infinity, symmetry, hyperbolic geometry and truncations. Escher’s Relativity. Pictured here are some of the “impossible staircases” that Escher designed, that defy gravity, or have you walking upside down.
It’s easy to see how Dream and Maze resemble Escher’s work. The architects sought to create a “mysterious, infinite and impossible space with the seamless transformation amongst 2D and 3D as...
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