The annual Ice Hotel built from actual snow and ice every year in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden has been open for a few weeks now. And every year, the design for the hotel as well as each of the rooms is different! Participating artists and designers come to sculpt and craft the suites into works of art that one can sleep in. This year's line up has some lovely, lyrical concepts...
GALANTHUS NIVALIS by ELIN JULIN & IDA MANGSBO
Galanthus nivalis – Snowdrop – the flower that defies the snow and tells us that spring is on its way. The snow is deep but soon spring is here and snowdrops and crocuses emerge from the snow when the sun returns. Giant snowdrops strive for the light along with glittering grape hyacinths and sheer grass straws. In this suite, the visitor encounters spring in macro format. Large spring flowers hang from the walls and emerge from the snowcovered floor. This creates a feeling of being in the midst of a spring meadow.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by BERNADOTTE & KYLBERG
Some 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the ice is so clear that in some places you have to touch it to see that it’s actually there. It’s like no other ice that you’ve ever seen before. At least that we’ve ever seen before. When we were asked to design a suite for Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, we didn’t hesitate for a second. We also knew that it would be all about the ice.
Our idea? Well, what better way to show the true character of the ice than to encapsulate the most delicate and beautiful Swedish midsummer flowers in an arctic environment? For us Swedes, midsummer, and especially midsummer’s night, is filled with myth and legend. The Scandinavian nature that surrounds us flowers and ice plays a huge part in our cultural upbringing and has a bearing on who we are as Nordic people as Scandinavians. Hopefully, our vision with the suite ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ will invite you also to be a part of us.
BAUH-ICE by LUC VOISIN & MATHIEU BRISON
A Tribute to Walter: get ready to travel back in time and to experience the geometric shapes, rounded furniture, lines and stripes. Founded by architect Walter Gropius, BAUHAUS was a school that became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify the principles of mass production with an individual artistic vision and strove to combine aesthetics with everyday function.
The Bauhaus style later became one of the most influential trends in modern design, modernist architecture and art. - German style: «Bau» means «building» and «Haus» stands for «house». - Translated into Jukkasjärvi style: We keep the «Bau» and just add the ice.
DREAMS OF PENCILS by EDMUND CHAN JIAN XIONG & TAITIEN TAN
The pencil is a fundamental instrument in an artist’s toolbox. Simple yet versatile, there is much potential for creativity–from swift sketches to exquisite pictures and everything in between. With every mark made, a picture develops and puts forth a peek into the creator’s ideas and imagination.
This suite celebrates the pencil and brings its familiar form into focus. Ordinary details such as the pencil’s hexagonal barrel, graphite core, sharpened tip, and eraser end are reimagined.
The artists invite you to lie down inside the pencil case. As you unwind, become the pencil and let your imagination run free. With a touch of ingenuity and inspiration, who knows what wonders you might dream up?
ENCLOSED SPACE by ROB HARDING & TIMSAM HARDING
“Enclosed Space” turns a small sphere of ice into a welcoming refuge, where one can enjoy the protection of an igloo inside of another Igloo. An enclosed space can be what so often we need to escape, that cage that protects us from the outside and holds us safe, where pressure and closeness is done in a loving manner.
“Enclosed Space” is a room to be experienced. As one enters the space, a square face a sphere in a sculptural defiance, where no bed is to be seen or imagined, only those that are curios and travel the space are to encounter the actual cocoon that may be offered as a space to be lived and enjoyed.
FRÖ by HENKIA
Frö It is the inside of a seed
It is the potentiality before creation
It is protection
It is light
It is life
It is frö
GARDEN by NATSUKI SAITO & SHINGO SAITO
There is an icy garden, where smooth light come through ice so it’s seems like you are under a pergola. You are chatting, singing, meditating in the large flower. Relax, feel the connection to your mind and the nature.
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HIDDEN MILAN by LUKAS PETKO
“Hidden Milan” is a concept inspired by one of the most typical feature of Milanese architecture, a courtyard. Often hidden behind large, inconspicuous doors, these intimate and silent places tend to hide a completely new world full of amazing fountains, exotic trees, colourful flowers and terracotta flower pots, which I decided to interpret with ice and snow.
HIGH SCORE by SONIA CHOW & HUSCHANG POURIAN
Enter the time-space continuum of High Score, a playroom for soaking in the nostalgia of a simpler era. It triggers happy memories of hanging with friends in person, captivated by old school video game marathons in the days before “virtual experience” entered the vernacular.
The game world brings a sense of happiness centered in an unusual spatial experience. Engulfed by the elasticity of time where hours feel like minutes, and seconds stretch into days, you vie for the unbeatable thrill of entering your 3-letter high score name in your favorite escape.
Bellies full of pizza and beer, you drift off to sleep nestled deep in the console where waking life and pixels mingle into one.
HOME NATURE by MUNKH-ERDENE TSAGAAN & UUGANTSETSEG ENKHTAIVAN
Protecting the environment is the name of preventing potential degradation, living in harmony with nature, living in harmony with the environment. It's comparing and respecting the earth with its mother, treating it humanely, caring for its flora and fauna, and conserving its resources with high ecological ethics.
MAIGHDEANN-RÒIN by EMIÍLIE STEELE & SARA STEELE
Maighdeann-ròin, or ”Selkie”, is a Celtic/Scottish legend about a shapeshifter – half woman and half seal. In the story she gets taken hostage by a man who steals her seal coat so that she can’t return to the sea.
It’s a magical, beautiful and sad story that taps into today’s suppression of women, and the constant fight for freedom and equality. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are – in this suite there’s something for everyone. Secrets and messages are hidden everywhere in a mix of snow sculptures, glittering ice, music and a bittersweet story that plays out the moment you step inside the room.
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THE MUSHROOM by CHRIS PANCOE & PETER HARGRAVES
While walking through the woods on the way home from a long day of Mushroom picking, you come across a curious patch of Fungi that looks particularly tasty. Feeling hungry from your adventure, you decide to pick one and take a bite. After doing so, a strange feeling washes over you and your senses become heightened as the forest begins to grow. You come to realize suddenly that the forest is not growing, and it is you that is shrinking. You keep shrinking until you are the size of an insect. What was once the forest floor you walked on, is now a jungle of Jurassic proportions. “This can’t be happening”, you tell yourself. “This must be a dream”. “I‘m going to lay down, take a deep breath, close my eyes, relax and everything will be back to normal. This is only a dream” … Or is it?
Guests of the Mush Room will be transported to a microcosmic interpretation of the forest floor and invited to relax within the substrate of the woods amongst the leaves, mushrooms and creatures that inhabit this hidden world.
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WHAT IS TO COME by ILKA RAUPACH & LINE JASTRAM
Back in the Upper Pleistocene, a ground squirrel buried the plant's fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze. Over millennia, the squirrel's burrow fossilized and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil. They never thawed. They were not disturbed.
CEREMONY HALL EMBRACE by WOUTER BIEGELAAR & VIKTOR TSARSKI
WELCOME TO OUR CEREMONY HALL "EMBRACE"
'Embrace' celebrates, life, love and all that is positive. In a post covid world filled with war and hate we try to find a peaceful place. No religion, no orientation, no race. Just love, and embracing all that is good.
The altar is the center piece of the design from which all other lines derive. Blocks of snow and ice are cut with a slight curve creating a stylized flower that is opening up. During the season this process will continue to open more and more.
All photos by Asaf Kliger for ICEHOTEL
You can visit the Ice Hotel until April...when it starts to melt!
https://www.icehotel.com/
GALANTHUS NIVALIS by ELIN JULIN & IDA MANGSBO
Galanthus nivalis – Snowdrop – the flower that defies the snow and tells us that spring is on its way. The snow is deep but soon spring is here and snowdrops and crocuses emerge from the snow when the sun returns. Giant snowdrops strive for the light along with glittering grape hyacinths and sheer grass straws. In this suite, the visitor encounters spring in macro format. Large spring flowers hang from the walls and emerge from the snowcovered floor. This creates a feeling of being in the midst of a spring meadow.
Some 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the ice is so clear that in some places you have to touch it to see that it’s actually there. It’s like no other ice that you’ve ever seen before. At least that we’ve ever seen before. When we were asked to design a suite for Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, we didn’t hesitate for a second. We also knew that it would be all about the ice.
Our idea? Well, what better way to show the true character of the ice than to encapsulate the most delicate and beautiful Swedish midsummer flowers in an arctic environment? For us Swedes, midsummer, and especially midsummer’s night, is filled with myth and legend. The Scandinavian nature that surrounds us flowers and ice plays a huge part in our cultural upbringing and has a bearing on who we are as Nordic people as Scandinavians. Hopefully, our vision with the suite ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ will invite you also to be a part of us.
A Tribute to Walter: get ready to travel back in time and to experience the geometric shapes, rounded furniture, lines and stripes. Founded by architect Walter Gropius, BAUHAUS was a school that became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify the principles of mass production with an individual artistic vision and strove to combine aesthetics with everyday function.
The Bauhaus style later became one of the most influential trends in modern design, modernist architecture and art. - German style: «Bau» means «building» and «Haus» stands for «house». - Translated into Jukkasjärvi style: We keep the «Bau» and just add the ice.
DREAMS OF PENCILS by EDMUND CHAN JIAN XIONG & TAITIEN TAN
The pencil is a fundamental instrument in an artist’s toolbox. Simple yet versatile, there is much potential for creativity–from swift sketches to exquisite pictures and everything in between. With every mark made, a picture develops and puts forth a peek into the creator’s ideas and imagination.
This suite celebrates the pencil and brings its familiar form into focus. Ordinary details such as the pencil’s hexagonal barrel, graphite core, sharpened tip, and eraser end are reimagined.
The artists invite you to lie down inside the pencil case. As you unwind, become the pencil and let your imagination run free. With a touch of ingenuity and inspiration, who knows what wonders you might dream up?
ENCLOSED SPACE by ROB HARDING & TIMSAM HARDING
“Enclosed Space” turns a small sphere of ice into a welcoming refuge, where one can enjoy the protection of an igloo inside of another Igloo. An enclosed space can be what so often we need to escape, that cage that protects us from the outside and holds us safe, where pressure and closeness is done in a loving manner.
“Enclosed Space” is a room to be experienced. As one enters the space, a square face a sphere in a sculptural defiance, where no bed is to be seen or imagined, only those that are curios and travel the space are to encounter the actual cocoon that may be offered as a space to be lived and enjoyed.
Frö It is the inside of a seed
It is the potentiality before creation
It is protection
It is light
It is life
It is frö
GARDEN by NATSUKI SAITO & SHINGO SAITO
There is an icy garden, where smooth light come through ice so it’s seems like you are under a pergola. You are chatting, singing, meditating in the large flower. Relax, feel the connection to your mind and the nature.
.jpg)
HIDDEN MILAN by LUKAS PETKO
“Hidden Milan” is a concept inspired by one of the most typical feature of Milanese architecture, a courtyard. Often hidden behind large, inconspicuous doors, these intimate and silent places tend to hide a completely new world full of amazing fountains, exotic trees, colourful flowers and terracotta flower pots, which I decided to interpret with ice and snow.
HIGH SCORE by SONIA CHOW & HUSCHANG POURIAN
Enter the time-space continuum of High Score, a playroom for soaking in the nostalgia of a simpler era. It triggers happy memories of hanging with friends in person, captivated by old school video game marathons in the days before “virtual experience” entered the vernacular.
The game world brings a sense of happiness centered in an unusual spatial experience. Engulfed by the elasticity of time where hours feel like minutes, and seconds stretch into days, you vie for the unbeatable thrill of entering your 3-letter high score name in your favorite escape.
Bellies full of pizza and beer, you drift off to sleep nestled deep in the console where waking life and pixels mingle into one.
HOME NATURE by MUNKH-ERDENE TSAGAAN & UUGANTSETSEG ENKHTAIVAN
Protecting the environment is the name of preventing potential degradation, living in harmony with nature, living in harmony with the environment. It's comparing and respecting the earth with its mother, treating it humanely, caring for its flora and fauna, and conserving its resources with high ecological ethics.
MAIGHDEANN-RÒIN by EMIÍLIE STEELE & SARA STEELE
Maighdeann-ròin, or ”Selkie”, is a Celtic/Scottish legend about a shapeshifter – half woman and half seal. In the story she gets taken hostage by a man who steals her seal coat so that she can’t return to the sea.
It’s a magical, beautiful and sad story that taps into today’s suppression of women, and the constant fight for freedom and equality. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are – in this suite there’s something for everyone. Secrets and messages are hidden everywhere in a mix of snow sculptures, glittering ice, music and a bittersweet story that plays out the moment you step inside the room.
.jpg)
THE MUSHROOM by CHRIS PANCOE & PETER HARGRAVES
While walking through the woods on the way home from a long day of Mushroom picking, you come across a curious patch of Fungi that looks particularly tasty. Feeling hungry from your adventure, you decide to pick one and take a bite. After doing so, a strange feeling washes over you and your senses become heightened as the forest begins to grow. You come to realize suddenly that the forest is not growing, and it is you that is shrinking. You keep shrinking until you are the size of an insect. What was once the forest floor you walked on, is now a jungle of Jurassic proportions. “This can’t be happening”, you tell yourself. “This must be a dream”. “I‘m going to lay down, take a deep breath, close my eyes, relax and everything will be back to normal. This is only a dream” … Or is it?
Guests of the Mush Room will be transported to a microcosmic interpretation of the forest floor and invited to relax within the substrate of the woods amongst the leaves, mushrooms and creatures that inhabit this hidden world.
.jpg)
WHAT IS TO COME by ILKA RAUPACH & LINE JASTRAM
Back in the Upper Pleistocene, a ground squirrel buried the plant's fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze. Over millennia, the squirrel's burrow fossilized and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil. They never thawed. They were not disturbed.
CEREMONY HALL EMBRACE by WOUTER BIEGELAAR & VIKTOR TSARSKI
WELCOME TO OUR CEREMONY HALL "EMBRACE"
'Embrace' celebrates, life, love and all that is positive. In a post covid world filled with war and hate we try to find a peaceful place. No religion, no orientation, no race. Just love, and embracing all that is good.
The altar is the center piece of the design from which all other lines derive. Blocks of snow and ice are cut with a slight curve creating a stylized flower that is opening up. During the season this process will continue to open more and more.
All photos by Asaf Kliger for ICEHOTEL
You can visit the Ice Hotel until April...when it starts to melt!
https://www.icehotel.com/
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