This U.S couple is on a mission to sleepover on the planet’s most kitsch motels – they usually’ve documented the expertise in a whimsical new e book.
Margaret and Corey Bienert have fun ‘artistic, nostalgic and one-of-a-kind motels’ around the globe – with a selected emphasis on the U.S – of their new e book Resort Kitsch, printed by Artisan Books.
The married couple met whereas at college in Illinois, the place they bonded over their shared ardour for pictures. In 2018 they began touring round distinctive ‘theme motels’ in America and additional afield, finally documenting the expertise on-line on their ‘A Fairly Cool Resort Tour’ YouTube channel.
Their footage of those quirky resort and motel rooms quickly struck up a cult following, incomes them a mixed 1.8million followers on TikTok and Instagram.
An airplane-turned-love-motel, a cowboy-themed resort and an ‘Arctic Cave’ suite are among the many distinctive locations they’ve spent the night time.
Detailing the undertaking, the Bienerts write within the introduction to the e book: ‘Included [in the book] are theme motels that supply fantastical imitations of acquainted settings… in addition to imaginative interiors with a shameless abundance of sample, color and character.’ Scroll down for a sneak peek at 12 superb examples of the resort suites within the U.S that characteristic within the compendium…
DESIGNER INN AND SUITES, TOLEDO, IOWA: This rainforest room is one in every of seven ‘elaborate’ rooms at Designer Inn and Suites, Margaret and Corey write of their tome. ‘The bed room ceiling within the rainforest room is roofed in foliage, a novel contact that provides to the immersive impact of the design,’ they add
LOVE CLOUD, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Since 2014, tour operator Love Cloud has taken the concept of a rent-by-the-hour love motel to the skies with its ‘Mile Excessive Membership’ flight. So say Margaret and Corey of their e book, including: ‘For as much as 90 minutes, {couples} – or throuples – get a personal flight in a small aircraft outfitted with a comfy twin-size mattress.’ The e book says that the tour is ‘simply as wild because it sounds’. It reveals: ‘After you board, the pilot places up a curtain that separates the cockpit from the cabin and wears noise-cancelling headphones in order that the expertise is completely discreet’
WILDWOOD INN, FLORENCE, KENTUCKY: Every aspect of this ‘Arctic Cave’ room is designed to look as if it’s carved from ice, ‘from the lavatory counter to the facet tables and chairs’. The suite additionally consists of ‘a nook tub (proper) that was made to seem like it is sinking right into a melting glacier’
ANNIVERSARY INN, BOISE, IDAHO (LEFT): Dare to wash within the shadow of a dragon? At Idaho’s Anniversary Inn you possibly can, the e book reveals. This placing ‘dragon’ bathtub lies within the resort’s Sultan’s Palace Suite. ROXBURY MOTEL, ROXBURY, NEW YORK STATE (RIGHT): Friends can comply with the yellow brick highway in Roxbury Motel’s model of the Emerald Metropolis in Wizard of Oz, the e book reveals. The room, quantity 21, evokes the basic 1939 movie ‘with particulars together with a mural of a pink poppy area within the toilet’, the authors word. Within the image, two legs stand out from below the room’s king-size mattress, carrying striped stockings and ruby slippers. It mirrors how the Depraved Witch of the East’s toes stand out from below a home that has collapsed atop her within the hit movie
BLACK SWAN INN, POCATELLO, IDAHO: This suite on the Black Swan Inn is impressed by the Wild West, with its ‘swinging saloon doorways and sunken tub’ plus ‘a intelligent watering can showerhead’, the authors write
THE DIVE MOTEL, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE (LEFT): Strolling by the doorways of the Dive Motel appears like stepping again in time, in line with Margaret and Corey. Of the resort, they add: ‘The wooden panelling, tufted leather-based barstools, checkered linoleum flooring, and large disco ball definitely do not seem to be trendy options, which is precisely what the designers supposed after they opened the place in 2019.’ URBAN COWBOY, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE (RIGHT): The e book says that this resort, which is one in every of a sequence, transports you to a wonderfully curated rustic-but-glamourous world the second you step by the door. It continues: ‘Whereas most theme motels save their pizzazz for the visitor rooms, these are top-to-bottom handcrafted, stylistically spectacular southwestern designs. The flooring are strong wooden, a lot of the furnishings is well-worn leather-based, antlers are utilized in nearly each kind of fixture, and the partitions and ceilings have hand-printed patterns by artist Clinton Van Gemert’
BLACK SWAN INN, POCATELLO, IDAHO: This inn is housed inside a 1933 Tudor-style constructing in Pocatello, the e book reveals. Above is the Black Swan Backyard Suite, which options ‘serene floral murals, an enormous sizzling tub, and a gazebo that has been became a mattress body’
ADVENTURE SUITES, NORTH CONWAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE (LEFT): ‘The journey begins as quickly as this resort comes into view, disguised as an Previous Western city full with a church, firehouse, city corridor, blacksmith, and extra,’ the e book reveals. Above is the resort’s ‘Roman Rendezvous’ suite, full with ‘a heart-shaped tub, in addition to a lovely mountain view’. SYBARIS POOL SUITES, NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS (RIGHT): Behold the ‘Paradise Swimming Pool Suite’ on the Northbrook Sybaris, one in every of many Sybaris areas all through the Midwestern states of America. The e book notes that the inn’s founders, Ken Knudson and his spouse Charlene, set out for the inn to be ‘a magical place the place {couples} may shed the stress of day by day life and reacquaint themselves with love’. Ken and Charlene describe it as ‘an oasis of privateness – no home windows, no telephones – devoted to the enhancement of romantic marriage’
Married couple Margaret and Corey Bienert, pictured, are on a mission to have fun ‘artistic, nostalgic and one-of-a-kind motels’