Christian Lacroix does it again. Everytime I visit Paris, I always stay in the Christian Lacroix decorated Hotel du Petit Moulin. It’s a beautiful designer boutique hotel hidden away in the streets of Le Marais, where each room has a uniquely different design and theme.

It seems the French fashion designer has now done the same thing again with Hotel Le Bellechasse. Apparently, lacroix was given carte blanche for the decoration of this new luxury hotel, which, much like the Hotel du Petit Moulin, has resulted in the 34 rooms of this new boutique hotel being a heady mix of motif and pattern with layered images of insects, astrological symbols, Jules Verne scenes, checkers, toile de Jouy, with texture, mosaic and a masculine use of colour. Looks like I’ll have to plan another trip to my favorite european city to check it out for myself.

Find out more at the Hotel Le Bellechasse website.

You can have it in any colour as long as it’s white! Seeing as my current travel adventures are over, I think it’s time to start planning new ones. I’ve never been to Brussels and The White Hotel gives me the option of choosing a white room, or a super-white room, which intrigues me. Plus, each room contains a work made by a top belgian designer, so that should satisfy the design-whore in me.

Find out more about The White Hotel.

Hola España! Bonjour France! With all the endless rain we’ve been getting so far this summer in the UK, Miss Random Fashion Coolness and I have decided to hit the south of Spain/France for the summer. So normal Things of Random Coolness transmissions will be momentarily interrupted until we reach the Mediterranean and set up base camp.

If any of the Spanish/French readers have any good recommendations on things to see/do/eat/etc, please let me know.

A gallery where you can spent the night. That is what a hotel in one of the Berlin’s most exciting neighborhoods is often called. The Arte Luise Kunsthotel offers almost 50 rooms, each one decorated by a renowned artist.

Check out the rooms to see all the individual room concepts. There’s some interesting themes going on.

If you ever find yourself in Berlin, it might be worth checking into the Arte Luise Kunsthotel.

The prefect hotel for the design-obbessed traveller. While I was messing about with uploading the Valencian hotel photos to flickr, I found a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Paris. We stayed in the Hotel du Petit Moulin, a boutique hotel kitted out by Christian Lacroix. The hotel from the outside looks like a 17th century Boulangerie

If you’re ever in Paris, I can’t recommend the Hotel du Petit Moulin enough! It’s not outrageously expensive for Paris, and it’s perfectly located in the very hip Marais area of Paris. Each room has a seperate design theme, so it gives you a reason to keep going back to Paris to stay in each one (I’ve been back twice so far - so they’ve got me hooked!)

Check out the photos of the hotel that I’ve uploaded to Flickr. The design whores amongst you will spot the Timorous Beasties wall coverings, Deborah Bowness wallpaper and the classic Arne Jacobsen Egg & Swan chairs.

Although, the word on the street is that the new Hotel Amour is the boutique hotel du jour for Paris. I’ll post more on this hotel if they ever get back to me (perhaps their too cool to “do” email!)

For reservations, see Hotel du Petit Moulin.

Home alone. My girlfriend went to Valencia for the Fallas Festival this weekend, while I sat at home sulking about the fact I couldn’t go.

Knowing that I’m a whore for fresh design stuff, she kindly took loads of interior photos of the Aqua Hotel she stayed (talk about rubbing my face in it!). I’ve shoved the photos up on Flickr if anyone else is a whore for modern interior design. I particularly love these amazing tiles.

So, If anyone is over in Valencia, the Confortel Aqua Hotel Valencia might make a hip place to stay.

Is it weird to enjoy the interior design, rather than the food, in a restaurant? When I was in Paris recently I went to a Japanese restaurant that had some amazing pendant lights. I grabbed this photo, and I’ve been trying to figure out who designed it ever since.

It turns out that it’s called the Big Bang, made by Foscarini, and designed by Enrico Franzolini & Vicente Garcia Jimenez. It’s pretty expensive, but if you see one in a real enviroment it’ll blow you away. The photos don’t do justice to it’s design or it’s large size.

It’s available from places like Made in Design and Purves in Europe.

Sorry, no posts for a few days! I’m popping over to Paris for a few days before Christmas, so I won’t be posting anything for the next few days. I’ll be staying in Christian Lacroix’s Hotel du Petit Moulin, which is a fantastic hotel for the design-concious traveller, but I’ll tell you more about that on my return.

See you all soon!

Travel in style. I love this Bag from Rockwell Clothing. The Rockwell Clothing company is run by Parra, an underground star in Amsterdam, where his work is treasured by a generation of design fanatics.

Check out Parra’s illustration work.