One-room hotel Trunk House includes Tokyo's tiniest disco
Hotel brand Trunk worked alongside design studio Tripster to create this boutique hotel in Tokyo, which takes cues from traditional Japanese aesthetics ? but unusually boasts its own miniature nightclub.
Hidden away down a cobbled street in Tokyo's buzzing Kagurazaka neighbourhood, Trunk House has been created by the hotel's in-house design team and locally based studio Tripster to have a residential feel.
"The idea for Trunk House was inspired by the salons found in Tokyo in the past, where artists and creatives would congregate ? spaces where people would share ideas and exchange thoughts, where culture could be fostered," Hiroe Tanaka, creative director of Trunk, told Dezeen.
"We wanted to make a contemporary version of this concept which would accommodate modern creatives in and out of Japan."
The one-bedroom boutique hotel takes over a 70-year-old geisha house: a property where Japanese female entertainers, known as geishas, would live and practice how to dance, sing and make conversation with male clients.
Trunk's design team went about completely restoring and renovating the building to make it suitable for guest use.
Its focal point is now a bright-red room that, according to the designers, is the smallest disco in Japan. Complete with a curved drinks bar, glittering disco ball and illuminated dance floor, there is also a karaoke machine available for guests to use.
Spaces throughout the rest of the guesthouse ?which can sleep up to six when ...
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