Trailer parks are normally not synonymous with luxury, but when you take six Airstream trailers and place them on the roof top of the South African hotel “Grand Daddy” and let local artists decorate them, you got something quite special. It’s possible to book the Airstreams, but you probably have to order in good time.
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, by Mark and Joe Stead. This fantasy Airstream mirrors the times-three theme of the actual fairytale.
Sarah Pratt, a fine artist and lecturer at Michaelis School of Fine Art, is responsible for the trendy Dorothy Airstream. Sarah has reinvented the airstream with a duck egg-blue foundation colour and covered every inch with white polka dots. Some of the dots are three-dimensional and hinged to contain mini-exhibition items inside.
Love of Lace, by Tracy Lynch. Tracy’s signature colour pink provides a feminine appeal and intriguing seclusion that says boudoir not bordello. Tracy invited iconic South African women to select heart-stoppingly beautiful lingerie, which has been decoratively framed.
Pleasantville’s interior was designed by Liam Mooney, creative director and designer of Whatiftheworld and creative director of the AirsteamRooftopTrailer Park project. The trailer is a utopian, 1950s-style heaven, incorporating a wide variety of period-piece finishes in mint green and cherry red, decorative wall ducks, and blue melamine.
The Afro-Funk trailer’s earthy colours set the tone for an African experience – minus the wildlife. Carla Soudien was inspired by the street fashion of Cape Town, which is represented in her careful attention to texture.
The Ballad of John & Yoko, by Tamsin Relly, Cara Rosa and Chloe Townsend. With the bed taking up three-quarters of the trailer, the design invites relaxation and celebrates the peace and love that John Lennon and Yoko Ono so believed in. Guests have the opportunity to spread their messages of love and peace on the trailer’s creativity board and, if so inspired, they can pick up a musical instrument to add on-board acoustics.
The Moontides Airstream’s decor is a dreamy combination of silver and blue carrying you away on a moontide.
Photos courtesy of The Grand Daddy
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