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Tilt | Panic Room

When you’re decorating a bedroom, the theme is usually light, serene and dreamy, but not so for guests of the Hotal Au Vieux Panier, Marseille. Updated annually by bold, imaginative artists, the small hotel with 6 themed les chambres has become a European mecca for lovers of art and design with money to spare.

The most recent addition is ‘Panic Room’ by Tilt, a group of graffiti artists who divided the room down the centre with clean white on one side and chaotic graffiti on the other. More of an installation than decoration, Tilt designed the space to exaggerate graffiti culture with “too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups, too much drips”, giving it the feeling of an abandoned, disused place.

– Siobhán McGurrin