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By Mary Gostelow | Editor-in-chief of WOW.travel, the online magazine of kiwicollection.com
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Owner Gobind Singh Akoi has amassed the world's best collection of Anglo-Indian art from the mid 19th through to the early 20th centuries. Among the thousands of exquisite works displayed are pieces by the Daniells and Hodges families and officer's wife Anne Eliza Scott, who published Views in the Himalayas in aid of Simla orphans. WOWtravel also particularly loves suite 268, where fascinating photos include the bejewelled Lord and Lady Curzon entering Delhi on elephant back for the Coronation Durbar in 1903. VP/General Manager is Pierre Jochem.
Millennium Partners, owners of this 221-room hotel on Brickell Avenue, invested over $3.5 million in original Latin American art. Some 30 Miami- based artists, including José Bedia, Maria Martinez-Canas and Glexis Novoa are represented. One of the most strategic pieces is the 22-foot tall black bulbous Seated Woman by Chilean sculptor Fernando Botero which graces the main, seventh floor, lobby (and her shape inspires the bite-sized chocolates placed on your bed at night turndown). VP/General Manager is Ignacio Gomez-Tobar.
Co-owner of the 145-room hotel that is partly a reconstruction of the birth- place of the Duke of Wellington is Lochlann Quinn, who with his wife Brenda is one of Ireland's foremost art collectors. Their learned book, The Art Collection at the Merrion Hotel, features some of the works, dating back to the 17th century artist Peter van Lint, displayed throughout all areas. See such works as Jack Yeats' 1925 painting of The Old Grass Road, Kinsale, and a likeness of the artist sculpted by Laurence Campbell. The new two-floor 2,600 sq ft Penthouse Suite has a 950 sq ft terrace. General Manager is Peter MacCann.
Art advisor Neal Menzies has chosen over 100 pieces of contemporary local art for the InterContinental Hotel Group, which owns this 422-room hotel. Enjoy abstracts by Atlanta-based Radcliff Bailey, who is also shown at the airport, and the ballet-line black oil swirls on canvas Night Lilies by another neighbor, Rocio Rodriguez (she also did the pair of black on white abstracts in corner suite 2203, which gives excellent views over Buckhead). General Manager is Ronen Nissenbaum
Anton Kilayko is curator of the 608-room hotel's $5 million eclectic modern collection. There is humorous oriental art, including, in the main lobby, a pair of sculptures by Beijing artist Zhu Wei that show Xi'an warriors in Maoist clothes. Also, looking overhead you see a giant mobile by American artist Frank Stella. Turn to your left or right and, at the end of those areas you are transfixed by enormous wall hangings by the leading contemporary glass artist, Dale Chihuly from Seattle WA. In favorite corner rooms in the 16 or 26 series, by contrast, the artistic appreciation comes from your stunning bathroom, with octagonal window views over modern Singapore. VP/General Manager is Ottavio Gamarra
Dakis Joannou played a major role in establishing this 548-room hotel, and 200 pieces of art from his renowned modern collection decorate all areas. Enter the lobby and you are greeted by a life-size blue cart wheeling Man, by George Lappas. Best rooms have access to the eighth floor executive club lounge, which has strategic views towards the Acropolis. Here, in the lounge, you have humorous Vogue-like magazine covers by Maria Papadimitriou, and the enchanting Punishment of the Peevish Black Cat 94, by Tassos Pavlopoulos. General Manager is Panos Panayotopoulos.
The Japanese owner happens to be an avid art collector, and he employed nine consultants to fill his 510-room design hotel with sensational south-east Asian art. The 12-foot metal Shadow Dance tower, by Hong Kong's Frank Woo, dominates the inner atrium of the multi-floored Studio restaurants complex. Meeting rooms feature four of Nizar Kamal Ariffin's Mask Series, with a hundred faces in each painting - well, meetings are all about people. The lobby shows a whimsical wall sculptor, Malaysian Breeze, by Abdul Muthalib Musa. General Manager is Paul Hutton.
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