Hotel hotel is a collaboration of designers -artists -artisans and fantasists - we have 68 rooms -we call them cosy -original -creative and meandering - the hotel is all about the beauty of domesticity -the curious -the well made and the comfortable - the rooms have taken inspiration from the concept of the australian shack - clay rendered walls -natural fibre wallpaper -salvaged oak beds -eucalypt oriented strand board cupboards -windows that open -rain showers -a view onto the fernery or the lake and the gumtrees - each room is individual -dressed with contemporary artworks -collected objects and reupholstered mid-twentieth century furniture - our big time love of art is also found at the bar and lounge on the ground floor -kitted out with furniture and art by australian designers and artists such as lucy mccrae -charles wilson -adam goodrum and anna-willi highfield - hotel hotel lives in the environmentally driven nishi building at newacton -canberras cultural and artistic precinct - newacton also houses some of canberras best restaurants and bars -the palace electric cinema -and is forever interesting thanks to the music gigs -art shows -festivals and markets that happen here - being in the precinct also means that you are just a bike ride away from everything else that is happening in canberra -and that you are close to the airport when it is home time -sometimes the good things take a bit longer - this is the case with the restaurant kitchen - come and stay