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BnA Hotels in Kyoto have installed permanent art exhibitions into 31 of their bedrooms, allowing guests to sleep surrounded by their favourite artist’s work.

Regular hotel rooms are so boring. Who wants white floors and cream ceilings? You’re telling me there isn’t a giant, colourful artistic work spread across the interior of my bedroom?

Yikes, no thanks.

Thankfully, BnA Hotels fit the bill for my ridiculously high standards with their new feature at the Japanese BnA Alter Museum. After previously launching several art pieces around Tokyo’s Akihabara and Koenji neighbourhoods, the company has now expanded the project to 31 bedrooms in Kyoto.

The new building was designed by 15 Japanese artists who collaborated with nine art directors. Pieces were created for the hotel rooms, a ten-story vertical staircase gallery, a café, lounge, bar, and a museum shop. Not too shabby.

Let’s just hope nobody spills anything.

Some of the more notable works include digital art by Daito Manabe, Akiyama Buku, Muku Kobayashi, Taro Komiya, and Yumi Nakata.

Double rooms start at ¥16,000 per night’s stay, which is the equivalent of $140 USD. That’s not the cheapest hotel around, but it’s worth mentioning that a portion of the money made is given directly to the artist whose work is on display. This means that any customer at the hotel is technically a patron of art.

I reckon that’s worth the bragging rights alone. Suddenly those nights with your non-arty friends will seem so beneath you.

Check out some of the full pictures and designs below and click here to visit the official website.

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