For those extra special touches that elevate a hotel stay into a truly memorable experience, you can’t go past the Handmade Hotel Room at Deco Hotel Canberra. This special space is now open for bookings for a limited time only, from 30 June to 28 July, in the lead up to Handmade Canberra’s winter market on 29-30 July.
The venture is the brainchild of Handmade Canberra and Deco Hotel Canberra, and is all about connecting guests with the individual artisan makers of Handmade Canberra, the national capital’s hub for Australian made designers and producers.
“Our exclusive Handmade Hotel Room at Deco Hotel Canberra provides an unmatched stay in Canberra where everything from the artworks, décor, soft furnishings, kitchenware, dinnerware, food and beverage, and toiletries come direct from all-Australian handmade designers and makers,” says Julie Nichols, Founder and Director of Handmade Canberra.
“This is a truly immersive local artisan experience where guests can stay in a bespoke, hand-curated hotel room; a room full of 100% Australian made products crafted lovingly from local and regional designers and producers.”
Nearly all the room’s hard and soft furnishings, decorative items, food, beverages and toiletries have been replaced with Handmade Market stallholder creations. And, not only can you stay in the room, but you can purchase any of the Handmade items you find there.
Marketing Manager of Deco Hotel’s parent company Capital Hotel Group, Alison Jones, says even the mini bar and in-room food hampers are stocked with Handmade produce.
“We have worked with Handmade Canberra to curate artworks, decorative throws, cushions, kitchenware, ceramic vases, sculptures, dinnerware, soaps and shower steamers, room diffusers and sprays, food and snacks, and mini bar beverages,” Ms Jones says.
“Not only can guests stay in the room and enjoy Deco’s famed comfort and hospitality in centrally located Braddon, but they can actually buy all of the Handmade items within the room – to either enjoy during their stay, take with them when they leave, or order direct from the room to be delivered to their own home when they return refreshed from their unique Handmade Hotel Room experience at Deco Hotel.”
For more information and to book, visit www.handmadecanberra.com.au or www.decohotel.com.au
Handmade stallholders featured in the Handmade Hotel Room at Deco Hotel Canberra include:
- Altina Drinks – non-alcoholic beverages for in-room hamper and mini bar
- Ashculme Textiles – handwoven alpaca throws
- Bendigo Brittle for in-room hamper
- Broadcroft – outdoor sculptures
- Bursaria Workshop – wombat cushion
- Eggpicnic – Australian bird artworks
- Farm Goat – hand soaps
- Glenn Martin Photography – framed Canberra prints
- Hausfits Designs – bedside tables
- Leiluca Ceramics – coffee cups
- Leroy Mac Designs – Australian woollen throw
- Lil Gas – recycled gas bottle planters and bowls
- LouiseM studio – ceramic vases
- Mrs Nargar & Co. – shower steamers
- Murrumbateman Chocolate Co. – turn down chocolates and in-room hamper
- Quarry Hill – wine
- Red Fox Pottery – ceramic vases, platters and bowls
- The Canberra Distillery – gins in mini bar
- The Little Flame Co. – room diffusers
- Tumut River Brewing Co – beers and ginger beer in mini bar
- Twice Designs – framed vintage prints
- Tania Vrancic Ceramics – white vases and display pieces
- The Soapstress – pump soap and hand cream
- Time in Timber – bedside clocks
- Upswitch – lamps
- Waypoint Tea Co. – tea for in-room hamper
Canberra Daily editor Julie Samaras enjoyed a complimentary stay in the deluxe suite adjoining the Handmade Hotel Room at Deco Hotel Canberra on Thursday night, 15 June, including dinner for two at the in-house restaurant, Two14, and buffet breakfast on Friday morning.
“There were amazing handmade products everywhere you looked, from the entry, kitchenette, mini bar, bed and bedside tables, to the bathroom, sofa, walls, wardrobe – even the private outdoor patio,” Ms Samaras says. “They’ve thought of everything, and it elevates a luxurious five-star experience to a six!”
