Buried by Yuko Nagayama This space was stripped completely and had become like a desolated ruin. Next, the wooden elements and furniture were buried in white pebbles. This makes the space change instantly as if snow falls in a city landscape; gaps in time and material link up naturally. The pebbles might be difficult to walk on at first, but maybe you will get used to them during your stay. It is like camping out in nature; you adapt yourself to the environment. The space does not adapt itself to you, but you adapt to it. The space awakes a latent natural instinct that everybody appears to carry within but is normally not activated. Photography Takumi Ota

我们都去看过这么好的节目，你不想离开，现在，在东京的伊洛夫特展览上，你不必离开。如果你喜欢你看到的东西，只要入住并过夜就可以方便地住在Shibuya-ku。伊洛芙由苏珊娜·奥泽纳(阿姆斯特丹劳埃德酒店的艺术总监)策划，由14间客房、一家咖啡厅和一家商店组成，所有这些都由八位荷兰和日本设计师组成，其中包括肖尔登。

Little Big Room by Hideyuki Nakayama  We have made a replica of the former, old and dilapidated Japanese-style room. As it is a replica, also the cuts in the pillars, the stains on the ceiling, everything is totally the same. However, the replica has grown a little bit bigger. We tried to put this slightly bigger replica back into the room. Of course, since we tried to stuff something bigger into something smaller, some wrinkles have appeared. But it still is that same room, only slightly bigger. What would have had it grow bigger? Love? I’d like to think so. Photography Takumi Ota

Little Big Room by Hideyuki Nakayama  Photography Takumi Ota

Rotating Bed by Jo Nagasaka During the Edo period of Japan foreign trade with Western nations was very limited. Trade was only allowed on Deshima, a small artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki. A Dutch trade factory was built there in 1641 and the trade between the two countries started. Every time a Dutch ship would enter the Nagasaki harbor the government of Japan demanded detailed information about Dutch life, culture, science and technology as this was the only way to obtain information about the West. This information was compiled in the so-called fusetsu-gaki, Dutch reports of the world news. A drawing of a cogwheel in one of these reports became very influential in the underworld of Edo society. Nagasaka used this information as a starting point to recreate an illusive space. Photography Takumi Ota

Rotating Bed by Jo Nagasaka Photography Takumi Ota

Fertility by Joep Van Lieshout ` In this safe haven one can relax just like we all did in our first homes, that of the womb. Its soft shapes and forms make for the ultimate experience of Llove in all its shapes and sizes. Photography Takumi Ota

Pond by Ryuji Nakamura  The original Japanese-style room is left just as it is, but an extra floor has been added which splits the room in two spaces above and under. This floor is created with a special method: it is elastic. Therefore you can stretch it and walk through it. Please think about interesting ways to play with this material, and take a lot of photographs. Photography Takumi Ota

Pond by Ryuji Nakamura Photography Takumi Ota

Re-creation by Scholten & Baijings A Llove Hotel is an establishment where about half of all sex in Japan takes places,ane where consequently a large part of the country’s offspring are conceived. Looking at the floor plan, we presumed that we had to design a single room?! Therefore the idea arose to focus on fertility issues. Because what if you are single and you want to have a child? Or you are a happy couple that has difficulty getting a love baby. Re-creation.. Photography Takumi Ota

Re-creation by Scholten & Baijings Photography Takumi Ota

Llayers Llove hotel by Richard Hutten  The hotel room designed by Richard Hutten must be seen as an emotional journey. It will be a 7 star hotel room: 3 stars for comfort and an additional 4 stars for experience.  In the room you’ll find an extension of the layers series Richard started to make in 2008. The center of the room is the ‘Princess on the Pea’, a bed which functions as a place to sleep and rest, but also as table and storage. The bed is the only piece of furniture in the room. On the floor you will find carpet tiles which represent different moods and functions of the hotel room, also represented in a layered manner. On the walls of the room layers of tape complete the look. Some of these tapes were specially made for this room. On one tape you can even leave your mark during your stay, expressing your personal feeling or needs. As an extra layer, referring to the outdoor, you will find some leaves growing on strange places. The room is not suitable for business men on a business trip, but very suitable for tourists not in a hurry, people in love, and everyone who knows how to enjoy life! Photography Takumi Ota

in Llove by Pieke Bergmans  The design of the room in the Llove hotel, is about the emotion, the romance and compassion of love. The main object in the room will be light. Light is visible to human but whether visible to the eye or not, a really interesting aspect of light is that we ‘feel’ light. This is because of the electromagnetic radiation of the wave lengths and also the temperature. In many legends sunsets or moonlight are an important and magical part of processes as it touches our emotions. But it’s not just about the light in this room. You think you enter a regular hotel-room, but when you have a closer look, you see that the objects behave peculiar; The bed is crawling up the wall. The chair is desperately stretching out to get closer to the table. The lights are entangled and the toothbrushes are totally into one and another. But what else would you expect from a Llove hotel… everything has fallen in LLove! Photography Takumi Ota

Rooms 309 - 314 by Llove Creative team and Jo Nagasaka The 6 C-type rooms consist of three sets of two neighboring rooms. The guests of these sets can enjoy an 'unrelated connection' through the subtle mechanisms in these rooms. Every set has its own theme: 'misunderstanding', 'overwriting' and 'misinterpretation'. The rooms were designed using these themes by the LLOVE Creative Team together with Jo Nagasaka. In every room works by contemporary artists belonging to galleries affiliated with New Tokyo Contemporaries (Association of second generation galleries in Tokyo) are exhibited. Photography Takumi Ota

Rooms 309 - 314 by Llove Creative team and Jo Nagasaka Photography Takumi Ota

Rooms 309 - 314 by Llove Creative team and Jo Nagasaka Photography Takumi Ota

Bathroom gallery, Yokujo YOKUJO features an art gallery in a Japanese style bathroom. (Only hotel guests can make use of the bathroom) Photography Takumi Ota

The hotel's cafe where food is served using ingredients from the Nara Prefecture Photography Takumi Ota

The hotel's cafe Photography Takumi Ota

Shop, where a selection of goods from Japan and the Netherlands are for sale Photography Takumi Ota

The entrance to the LLove exhibition Photography Takumi Ota

The Daikanyama i Studio, where Llove takes place, seen from the street, in Shibuya-ku Photography Takumi Ota