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Walmart Family Plans Art Hotel To Complement New Museum

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The owners of Louisville, Kentucky's popular 21c Museum Hotel are partnering with Walmart's Walton family on a new 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas. The project will be a $28 million, 130-room hotel near the downtown square in Bentonville. It will have a spa, fitness center and restaurant that uses local ingredients. Construction is expected to begin this year and the project should be completed in 2012.

Business First of Louisville reports that the hotel will be owned by the Waltons, Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown--the owners of 21C, and and Bentonville Revitalization Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the city's historic structures. Poe Cos will use sustainable building materials and incorporate "green" design practices to create the hotel. The building is being designed by Deborah Berke & Partners LLP, who designed the Louisville 21c hotel in conjunction with Polk Stanley Wilcox architecture firm.

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Langham Place Hotel Offers Guided Art Tours

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More hotels are getting into showcasing art but the Langham Place hotel in Hong Kong is now the first hotel in the world to offer their guests museum-style guided tours of their collection of contemporary Chinese art.The hotel owns more than 1,500 pieces of contemporary Chinese art worth more than HK$20 million. The collection includes pieces by Chinese artists including Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun and Jiang Shuo. The iPod art tour takes guests from the ground level to the 41st floor to check out the hotel's top 21 pieces. Via the iPod, Angela Li, Langham Place's art consultant explains the philosophy and history of the art and artist and the key contributors guiding the artist. The tours are conducted in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese and are free for all guests. The tour comes with a free take-home petite box-set guide with image prints and written explanations in English and Traditional Chinese.

Gallery: Langham Place Art

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Chambers Minneapolis, A New Art Hotel

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Minneapolis gets a bad rap but the bustling city actually has a lot to recommend it, including a swanky new design hotel. Chambers Minneapolis is the sister to the New York hotel and is designed to appeal to the artsy set in the town. The design is minimalist chic accented by almost 250 original artworks. The hotel corridors feature video installations. The hotel is home to 45 guestrooms and 15 suites which boast rain showers, heated floors, LCD televisions and Italian glass tiles. New York-aspirational dining is provided by a the Chambers Kitchen which features dishes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Hotel Chatter reports that the rooms generally start t $450 but that now through December there is a Grand Opening rate, offering king studios from $225 per night.

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