MASEVEN München Messe Dornach — Hotel photography
Hotel photography at MASEVEN Munich Messe Dornach: lobby and interiors of the apartment hotel. The set shows how the house works, not just how it looks…
MASEVEN München Messe Dornach, an apart-hotel for long-stay guests. The set shows how the house works, not just how it looks: the mirror-polished lobby with its chrome trumpet pendants, orange leather armchairs in the lounge, the coffee bar in green granite with its chalkboard — and the hot pink washing machines in the self-service laundry, which in a hotel like this are as much part of the offer as the bed.
The lobby floor is polished like a mirror, and that governs the whole series. On a surface like that nothing can hide: a tripod, a light on a stand, the photographer — all of it appears twice. So the work is done with the light the building has, and the standpoint is chosen so the reflection helps rather than intrudes. The pendants, the courtyard windows and the wall lights all appear twice, and the room reads as twice as tall as it is.
A lounge is hard to sell photographically, because it consists of furniture. Hence the frame taken straight down onto the bar stools: chrome funnels over a patterned rug become a graphic, and the lines of the rug continue into the stools' feet. At eye level it would have been six stools.
The open ceiling with its ducts, sprinklers and tracks deliberately stays in the frame. In this building it is part of the design language, not something to crop away — an interior with every technical edge trimmed off ends up looking like every other one.
What the pictures have to answer is, in the end, a single question: could I live here for six weeks. So the laundry stands on equal footing with the lobby, the chalkboard beside the granite slab, the corner with the wool throw beside reception. Someone booking for one night looks at the bed; someone booking for a month is looking for exactly these frames.
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