Hobo Hotel is an open-minded place with curated art, organic food in the restaurant and special installations like a farming-aquaponic installation or the barbershop and the DIY repairment corner. These storytelling elements together with the design details create a friendly and emotional place for all guests from all over the world as well as locals from Stockholm. Designwise Hobo plays with open loft like spaces and easy accessibility to all public areas as well as communicative and inviting seating areas. The design is quite casual, easy-going and collage-like: studio aisslinger curated materials and colors to achieve a mix of warm, natural textures like stone or wood together with tiles, wallpapers, metal finishes like brass all connected with colourful fabrics and a cosy lighting concept.

All design pieces are carefully selected and designed by studio aisslinger in collaboration with high-end design brands around Europe. To name some of them: a lighting project with famous Swedish brand Wästberg, special seating and sofas designed with Italian manufacturer Cappellini, as well as a novelty in the bathroom; a tap with AXOR of HansGrohe – the worldwide first faucet made of clay based on the new U-Base System.

The unique rooms are defind by the central and freestanding bed, orientated towards the window which is framed by a wooden funnel construction emphasizing the 1970s horizontal window elements. The bed is connected to a steelframe structure, a construction that connects to a desk and also serves as a place for hanging lamps or personal objects. The rooms’s unusual atmosphere is shaped by a long red or green mirrorball and the big glaswindow separating the shower area. All furniture like wardrobe, cork stool and bedside tables are editions of studio aisslinger.

Together with Cappellini, a range of seating elements was conceptualized. Connecting to the flow of the Hobo Hotel storytelling, the seating follows these soft factors by being flexible and unpretentious. Not embracing people like an armchair but allowing many open seating situations for individuals and groups always pushing communication by the configurations of the sofa units and freestanding soft stools or bar stools. The materials are selected carefully with doublecolour elements for the Hobo sofa system designed by werner aisslinger and Tina Bunyaprasit.

In cooperation with Wästberg, a small toolkit was created which generates various types of suspension lamps, table or hook lamps. Through a well calculated colour system, the lamp can be iconic in a space or be a decent match for other materials in the architecture or even used in cluster formations in public spaces. The Wästberg Hobo lighting is versatile, its range in use goes from cosy room lamps to bathroom lighting, atmospheric bar or lounge and restaurant ambient lighting, The change of colors and finishes and the minimal archetype overall design as well as the shape of shades make this lighting family an important factor in Hobo’s ambient, while also being a long-lasting and timeless product with an open visual half-life. Wästberg Hobo lighting series designed by Werner Aisslinger and Tina Bunyaprasit.