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Rent Vincent Van Gogh's 'Bedroom in Arles' for $10 a Night
A replica of the room in the famous Post-Impressionist painting is being listed on Airbnb in Chicago.
It’s a small space with wooden floor. On one side, a narrow bed with red covers stands solemnly. On the other, a small toilet table is parked beneath a wall mirror, mounted with a basin among other objects. It’s flanked on either side by a chair. The room has one window and an odd assortment of paintings mounted on its walls.
This room doesn’t seem like much, but Vincent van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles” is arguably the most famous room in art history. And now a replica of it in Chicago’s River North is up for rent as per this listing on Airbnb. The cost? Just $10 per night, charged “for no other reason than that I need to buy paint,” writes the Airbnb host, purportedly van Gogh himself. Here’s how the space is described in the listing: