“I’m obsessed with interiors and spaces, and feel that curating your home should be an act of producing a piece of art,” says Claire Luxton, the multi-media artist who is responsible for the new, eponymous Claire Luxton Suite at InterContinental London Park Lane. It is the hotel’s London Suite that Luxton has transformed into an urban oasis, filling the rooms with double-height sculptures, tropical floral displays and mood-altering lighting, fragrance and sounds. Luxton is one of a new generation of creatives disrupting the way we bring art and design into our homes, tripping the traditional accumulation of decorative pieces for the home into something new and exciting.
For Luxton, home decoration goes beyond “hanging art on the wall or choosing a few cushions”. She believes in a more holistic approach to decoration, “from the visual to the aural, the texture to the fragrance” of one’s surroundings. For the Claire Luxton Suite, she created a full fragrance profile and a variety of soundscapes to allow guests to immerse themselves fully in the experience of existing in the space, the design scheme of which was inspired by Luxton’s extensive travels. Luxton’s design concept was geared towards “creating a space that elevates every day of your life,” a principle she believes should be liberally applied to the home. “It’s about lifting you out of the everyday. If you can do that, your home certainly classifies as a piece of art,” she says.
