Tessellation Irritation

Soho Grand, NYC. Bathroom floor. Room 1533.

I recently had the pleasure of staying at the Soho Grand in New York but I was piqued to discover one misplaced tile in a sea of uniformity on the hotel room’s bathroom floor. I wasted valuable hours of sleep pondering why, when laying the floor, did the mistake not get corrected, how much extra effort would it have taken to swap two tiles? Or was it the work of a mischievous tiler? (don’t tiles like these come in sheets?) Is it interior designer, William Sofield‘s signature? - a middle finger salute to the resident OCD (obsessive compulsive designer).

Like any good hotel guest I never mentioned the problem to the hotel staff, choosing instead to swipe as many free toiletries as my bag would hold and then blog about my experience from the comfort of my perfectly tessellated home.

Gary Butcher
Posted on Wednesday, 7th of February 2007 Permalink Comment (1)