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Art hotels & holiday accommodation for art lovers,
properties exhibiting original artists work in gallery space and throughout

 Artist Residence Boutique Guesthouse
located: Penzance, Cornwall, UK
website: Artist Residence
Art hotel with its own gallery and fresh vibrant guest bedrooms, each designed and decorated by local British artists. Offering free Wi-Fi and parking; bedrooms include flat-screen TV, private bathroom and tea and coffee making. Breakfast is taken in the Art Gallery café-bar. Located close to the seafront in Penzance.

 Artist Residence
located: Brighton, Brighton & Hove, UK
website: Artist Residence
Guesthouse accommodation in an elegant regency townhouse in the heart of Brighton. Conventional, conceptual and sometimes absurd, over-the-top and quirky artwork is combined to create a totally unique decorative style. There is also a non-profit, on-site gallery run by young local artists.

 Berkeley Square Hotel
located: Bristol, UK
website: Berkeley Square
Bristol's first Art Hotel, a unique centrally located chic hotel, furnished and decorated with eclectic style. Art loving guests have full access to the Square, the areas leading members' club for the arts, including Square Gallery, a contemporary gallery with a continuous exhibition programme.

Borghese Palace Art Hotel
located: Uffizi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
website: Borghese Palace
This Art Hotel, just a 5-min walk from Florence Cathedral, blends antique furniture with contemporary decor. The hoel rooms are decorated with original works of contemporary art. The hotel also offers a free spa centre located in original C13th cellars. Rooms include an LCD TV with Sky and free internet access.

Daddy Long Legs Boutique Hotel
located: Cape Town, South Africa
website: Daddy Long Legs
A unique and affordable Art Hotel where each of the thirteen rooms has been individually decorated by a different artist, photographer, designer, poet or musician; resulting in bedrooms far from the average hotel room, which are exciting, adventurous, humorous and sometimes ironic in style.

 Da Vinci Eastbourne
located: Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
website: Da Vinci Eastbourne
One of the UK's first Art Hotels featuring a gallery downstairs in the spacious public rooms and art themed rooms upstairs where each bedroom features a guest artist. The Da Vinci hotel is a beautiful Grade 2 listed building situated off of Eastbourne sea front in Howard Square. The hotel offers single, double, executive and family rooms, all decorated to a high standard.

 Gallery Hotel
located: Kensington, London, UK
website: Gallery Hotel
Original, framed art is displayed on every floor and in every room of this refined Victorian-style hotel. It occupies a central location opposite the Natural History Museum, close to Hyde Park, Earls Court, Olympia, the Albert Hall, fashionable Knightsbridge and Harrods. A great choice for lovers of more traditional art.

 Hard Days Night Hotel
located: Liverpool, UK
website: Hard Days Night
Unique Beatles themed hotel, a luxurious 4 star hotel, adjacent to the famous Cavern Club. The hotel offers 110 elegantly furnished rooms each individually designed and with its own specially commissioned piece of Beatles art work. The Gallery offers guests an opportunity to acquire artwork displayed within the hotel.

Hotel Fox
located: Copenhagen, Denmark
website: Hotel Fox
Each room a work of art, international artists from the fields of illustration, graphic design and urban art have created this live-in artwork in central Copenhagen. The hotel has 61 rooms each with an individual design in a host of different styles from comic to street artist, from Japanese Manga to classic graphic, from flowers to fantasy; choose your personal favourite upon arrival.

Propeller Island City Lodge
located: Berlin, Germany
website: propeller-island.com
Not an Art Hotel, a work of art you can stay in! Propeller Island City Lodge was created by German artist Lars Stroschen, with 45 totally original and unique rooms offering amazing artistic diversity. Everything from mimimalist rooms to coffins, from floating beds to green leather walls, from elastic floors to rotating circular beds; in wild and wacky colour schemes and materials from wooden logs to stained glass.

Ramon Llull
located: Deia, Mallorca/Majorca, Balearic Islands
website: Ramon Llull
Two bedroomed renovated village house with original features, decorated with contemporary art, ceramics, Moorish-style antiques and distinctive furnishings. There is a top floor art studio with secluded sun terrace and spectacular views. The village, Deia, is a centre for artists and walkers.

Santorini holiday house
located: Aegean Islands, Greece
website: Search for property: 99996
A unique opportunity to stay in a holiday villa combined with traditional winery and working artists studio created by local abstract/collage/landscape artist Jon Call. Comprised of kitchen/dining room, lounge/home cinema, 2 bathrooms, sleeping quarters for 6, courtyard, roof terrace. Our link goes to booking agents home page, for full details search for property no: 99996

Slovenia B&B & artists retreat
located: Branik, Nova Goric, Slovenia
website: Slovenia B&B
Bed and breakfast in rooms decorated with art and antiques, in styles such as Art Deco, Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Alt Deutch, Bidermeier and Neo Baroque. Painting studios at this artists retreat can be rented during the summer months. The owner is a painter who also organises painting holidays at the B&B.

Suite D'autore Art Design Gallery Hotel
located: Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy
website: Suite D'autore
Featuring original artworks throughout, this unique hotel is set in the historic centre of Piazza Armerina. The hotel offers extraordinary creative suites, each individually designed and furnished; rooms have satellite TV, air conditioning and free Wi-Fi access. The hotel also has a spa and fitness centre as well as an avant-garde art gallery displaying the work of young designers and artists.

The Art Factory
located: Buenos Aires, Argentina
website: The Art Factory
An unique and original hostel/hotel in the heart of San Telmo, the bohemian/artistic area of Buenos Aires. In a restored mansion this hostel/hotel has been created by architects, graphic designers, street artists, and illustrators and is full of creativity, style and fun, hosting permanent exhibitions, art expositions and cultural activities. Offering private rooms or shared dorms.

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Art Hotel Gran Paradiso in Sorrento
located: Sorrento, Italy
website: hotelgranparadiso.com/en/
100 bedroom hotel in Sorrento, displaying the artwork and paintings of contemporary artists, located in a splendid panoramic position overlooking the Gulf of Naples. Rooms display original art from contemporary artists participating to their 'Art Hotel' project, many of which can also be seen on their online gallery.

LAgalerie - my tailor is rich
located: Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
website: lagalerie-mytailorisrich.eu
Stay in the art gallery itself! A unique concept, ideal for lovers of non-conformist contemporary art, folding beds come down out of the wall allowing guests to spend the night surrounded by the photos, sculpture, painting and other artwork on display in the gallery.