Propeller Island City Lodge

A room with a slanted floor which makes grandma’s bed seem to fly. The wardrobe comes out of the wall, but table and chair have got to stay straight!

propeller-island.de—Friday the 13th is a appropriate time to stay at German artist Lars Stroschen’s Propeller Island City Lodge, a habitable work of art in the heart of berlin, which he says is not one of those trendy designer hotels…it is more like a private planet which has evolved in unique synchronicity with the tastes of its inventor.

Have your pick of 30 unique accommodations from floating beds to padded rooms, dungeons, mirrored rooms and even coffins.

All furnishings and other objects in the rooms are custom-made, individual handiwork. None can be found anywhere else on this planet—one could consider the Propeller Island City Lodge to be a MUSEUM with guest accomodations or a stay-in work of SCULPTURE.

Whoever desires freedom can find perennial inspiration here—the unfolding mental universe of our guests is the joy of the creator.

All photos and artwork by Lars Stroschen.

From top to bottom and all around the bed, everything is upholstered with green leather. A kingly or queenly room where one can hear his own heart beat when the spirit grows weary.

The furnishings hang from the ceiling and you sleep and sit in comfortable boxes beneath the floorboards. Uncannily surreal! The only four-bed room.

The diamand-shaped room is completelylaid out with mirrors and gives you the impression of living in a kaleidoscope.

Sleep in a silver temple beneath the resplendent heavenly spheres. The open bed has a terraced structure. Asian flair with aged masonry.

This entirely white room can be darkened and illuminated at your desire with a variety of artifical lamps. A mirror located above the bed allows you to see yourself ‘in another light’

An exclusively connoisseur room for all those ‘Nosferatus’ who cannot wait for that which awaits us all. Whosoever has second thoughts can creep to the bedplace below, safe within the labyrinth.

A tubular room for 3 with consecutively ordered, terraced beds. The floor is hilly and even the wands are tilted! Those who prefer more private places can use the box below the highest bed.

A house made of green stained glass stands in this room, and next to it a romantic writer’s arbour with a century-old skylight. A pendulous stone at the head of the bed holds it in position. A wondrous, green light!

A friendly prison cell with a hole in the wall. The toilet is in the room, just like we know it should be! You really WANT to stay here, it’s extremely comfortable and freedom awaits on the balcony with a parasol.

A large room with a gable roof. The bathroom in this room is like a small house, entirely made of blue glass. From the high seat you can observe the antics and ‘goings-on’ in the circular rotating bed which presents you with constantly changing perspectives through strategically empty picture frames. We cannot recommend the bed for tall people (2m in diameter).

The reception area at the Propeller Island City Lodge

Akin to a barn, this room is constructed from the ages-old rafters of the house. A hidden ladder leads up to the berth, from which one can survey the pillow fortress made of potato sacks packed with foam rubber. Very pleasant earth tones.

A roughly hewn stone wall and the vivid azure blue colouring remind opening soon: visitors of a Mediterranean village. The room is rather cozy and offers space only for one person. The bed has been carpentered from palisade wood. Rustic comfort with southerly style among flower-photos.

The wild brush strokes of abstractly painted murals surround and adorn the mirrored aperture to the goings-on next door - an opened curtain might just invite you to have a look! The bathroom is a gigantic plastic bag - a real sensation!

Dual cages, situated in the centre of this spacious menagerie, rest on stilts measuring 1.5 meters tall and await applause from the neighbouring guest(s). Your curtain presides over what your audience sees and what not! The roomy bathroom has a toilet that thrones atop a tower and permits peeks into the golden bathtub. In the cages kids love to sleep, otherwise the room is for two.