Sweden’s Spectacular Icehotel Opens in Lapland Take a Peek Inside AFAR 1/6/2021
Photo by Asaf Kliger
The new “Auris Interna” Art Suite at Icehotel 31 is one of 12 ephemeral ice suites designed for the hotel’s 2020–2021 season.When the Icehotel first opened on a seasonal basis in 1989, the Swedish establishment became the world’s first hotel made of snow and ice. In the three decades since, the incredibly “cool” hotel has been reborn as a pop-up each winter, using almost 8,000 gallons of water sourced from the nearby Torne River to construct the frozen accommodations anew.
The Swedish Lapland property, which sits about 124 miles north of the Arctic Circle in the village of Jukkasjärvi, appears annually in an area known as a prime vantage point for Northern Lights viewing. This year’s Icehotel 31 (named in reference to its 31st season) is currently open through April 11, 2021.
Sweden s winter wonderland returns with opening of 31st Icehotel
Sweden s winter wonderland ret.
Dreaming in a Dream, by Kestutis Musteikis and Vytautas Musteikis, is one of the arty spaces created for the 2020 Icehotel, and conjures up an icy fantasy land populated with weird and wonderful creatures
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Toybox was designed by Wouter Biegelaar and Viktor Tsarsk. It contains ice sculptures of toys and stuffed animals
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Hang Loose was designed by Edith Van De Wetering and Wilfred Stijge and is conceived as an icy art gallery
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Koex Maximus was designed by Julia Gamborg Nielsen and Lotta Lampa and is envisioned as an abstract world of contemplation