The Uber-Trendy Home 22. júní 2006 00:01 Gistiheimili Home Agnar Gunnar Agnarsson is not your typical guesthouse owner. Then again, Home isn't your typical guesthouse. Anyone who's ever stayed in a guesthouse in Iceland can attest to a relatively uniform idea in design: the IKEA furnishings, smallish quarters, common kitchen and bathrooms. There's certainly nothing wrong with these elements, but Agnarsson's guesthouse, Home, located in the heart of downtown Reykjavik, takes the concept a step further: recessed alcoves for beds nearly at floor level, floors partially inlaid with smooth, tiny stones, furniture you'd actually consider putting in your own apartment. What inspired Agnarsson, a man trained in architecture, to take guesthouse design into this area? "Drum and bass," he answers with a laugh. "To me, architecture and music go hand in hand. When you're working on a digital basis, you find rhythms in the wood finish, dowel rods are like high-hats. Like the music, it's always trying to innovate itself, and do something new, filling voids and working with the space you have." Not that Agnarsson is some unapproachable conceptualist. "There's no deep theory going on here," he says, "I'm just going for comfort here. I try to bring back that feeling of when you're a little kid, piling up furniture and blankets, making forts, or building snow houses. Some of my ideas have even come from Star Wars interiors. This is what this is supposed to be about: fun." Fun is definitely a big selling point of this place, as is the location, but guests might forget they're in a guesthouse. Chances are they'll feel like they're in someone's home. Albeit someone with incredibly good taste. By Paul F. Nikolov Accommodation Feature Articles News in English Mest lesið Þetta er fólkið á bak við Skjöld Íslands Innlent Hótað og ógnað eftir að hafa aðstoðað lögreglu Innlent Móðir og níu mánaða barn hætt komnar í Þrengslunum Innlent Hitinn víða yfir 50 stig og vatnsforðinn að þorna upp Erlent Alvarlega slösuð bankakona lagði VÍS eftir langa og stranga baráttu Innlent Hefði sagt nei: Sumarfrí bæjarfulltrúa opnaði fyrir endurskipulag á Nónhæð Innlent Brú skóf þakið af tveggja hæða rútu Erlent Lögreglan hugsi yfir Skildi Íslands: Eitt lögbrot verði ekki réttlætt með öðru Innlent Reyndu að koma í veg fyrir að hún settist upp í hjá afrískum bílstjóra Innlent Ozzy Osbourne allur Erlent
Agnar Gunnar Agnarsson is not your typical guesthouse owner. Then again, Home isn't your typical guesthouse. Anyone who's ever stayed in a guesthouse in Iceland can attest to a relatively uniform idea in design: the IKEA furnishings, smallish quarters, common kitchen and bathrooms. There's certainly nothing wrong with these elements, but Agnarsson's guesthouse, Home, located in the heart of downtown Reykjavik, takes the concept a step further: recessed alcoves for beds nearly at floor level, floors partially inlaid with smooth, tiny stones, furniture you'd actually consider putting in your own apartment. What inspired Agnarsson, a man trained in architecture, to take guesthouse design into this area? "Drum and bass," he answers with a laugh. "To me, architecture and music go hand in hand. When you're working on a digital basis, you find rhythms in the wood finish, dowel rods are like high-hats. Like the music, it's always trying to innovate itself, and do something new, filling voids and working with the space you have." Not that Agnarsson is some unapproachable conceptualist. "There's no deep theory going on here," he says, "I'm just going for comfort here. I try to bring back that feeling of when you're a little kid, piling up furniture and blankets, making forts, or building snow houses. Some of my ideas have even come from Star Wars interiors. This is what this is supposed to be about: fun." Fun is definitely a big selling point of this place, as is the location, but guests might forget they're in a guesthouse. Chances are they'll feel like they're in someone's home. Albeit someone with incredibly good taste. By Paul F. Nikolov
Accommodation Feature Articles News in English Mest lesið Þetta er fólkið á bak við Skjöld Íslands Innlent Hótað og ógnað eftir að hafa aðstoðað lögreglu Innlent Móðir og níu mánaða barn hætt komnar í Þrengslunum Innlent Hitinn víða yfir 50 stig og vatnsforðinn að þorna upp Erlent Alvarlega slösuð bankakona lagði VÍS eftir langa og stranga baráttu Innlent Hefði sagt nei: Sumarfrí bæjarfulltrúa opnaði fyrir endurskipulag á Nónhæð Innlent Brú skóf þakið af tveggja hæða rútu Erlent Lögreglan hugsi yfir Skildi Íslands: Eitt lögbrot verði ekki réttlætt með öðru Innlent Reyndu að koma í veg fyrir að hún settist upp í hjá afrískum bílstjóra Innlent Ozzy Osbourne allur Erlent