The design Hotel year book 2007

Designing a hotel ... This is probably the dream of any designer. This book, that I found in the hotel room was showing all the weirdest places in the world. Some really nice, some really strange. Surely the one in Madrid was one of the weirdest. I met by chance the designer of the Hotel in Athens: Karim Rashid. He was in the room next to mine. We chatted a bit. He was actually just back from Madrid where he spent 4 nights in the American hotel: He judgment is merciless: bad design ! not practical at all, difficult to understand how to use the appliances. I must say I had to agree. It took me 15 minutes to figure out how the shower was working and I did not manage during the whole week to take a shower without splashing the whole bathroom. That hotel was surely not in line with Karim's idea of design : "Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally". Anyhow the America hotel was not in the book : Maybe a sign ...