-- CHOSEN THEORY 2: SURREALISM --

The surrealist movement can be described as being over the top, out of the norm, weird, wacky and wonderful all at the same time. It deals a lot with the surreal (obviously) and makes use of strange colour combinations, awkward scales and fascinating representations of everyday things in a warped sense of reality. 

The chosen precedent study that accompanies this theory is The Mondrian South Beach Hotel. The designer, Marcel Wanders, is well known for his outlandish furniture and his methods of execution in his projects. The Mondrian has an air of mystery, a sort of whimsical and luxurious approach to Alice in Wonderland... The designer played a lot with scale and proportion, as well as levels and materials to get the right atmosphere and allow the gusts to really have a unique experience in this exclusive hotel...