“May I help you? May I guide you to the restaurant?” No move goes unnoticed outside one’s room: from the hall to the breakfast room, from the lobby to the roof terrace, the guest is constantly accompanied by one or more of the smiling Chinese hotel employees, who, despite modest English skills, offer their assistance at every turn. Being the only guest in a new design hotel before its official opening is hard work (and sometimes a bit tedious, too). The receptionists have not quite mastered the fine points of credit-card paraphernalia, but the obligatory deposit is just that, and despite a late-night arrival, the check-in runs on for 20 minutes. Then the guest is sent on a quest – escorted by the giggling personnel – to find his room: at The Emperor there are no room numbers, so the guest must match the abstract portrait of an emperor on the magnet card with the considerably magnified one that graces the door of the hotel room. Once the corresponding image has been found, the reward is a room with an idiosyncratically modern spatial composition.

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