Design
London Now Has a Robot Sculpture You Can Sleep In
For only $4,200, you too can pretend to be eaten by the Iron Giant.
For seekers of an unusual art experience and Iron Giant vore fetishists, there's this: a honkin'-great robot whose belly has a compartment you can sleep in.
The clunky, stainless-steel brute squats atop the facade of London's new Beaumont hotel, as if it had just rocketed down from space and was surveying the area for people to squish under its massive feet. Titled "ROOM," the sculpture is just that – a fully operational bedroom, whose interior walls are paneled in classy, ammonia-fumed oak. Of course because it's London, where real-estate insanity knows no bounds, an overnight stay inside the invader isn't free. The cost of entry is £2,500, or about $4,200 for Americans who wish to incinerate their savings accounts.