- Sweden's iconic Icehotel has opened again for another winter season, and the photos for 2019/2020 have just been released.
- The hotel design is different every year, and this year it features a room based on a West End theater production, an ice-carved kaleidoscope, and a frozen feline lair.
- There's also an icebar, filled with ice-carved rollercoasters, games, and hot air balloons surrounding it.
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The first images of Sweden's iconic Icehotel have landed, with spectacular new designs celebrating the hotel's 30th anniversary.
This year's designs include a West End theatre production, an ice-carved kaleidoscope, and a frozen feline lair.
The opening this past weekend marked three decades since founder Yngve Bergqvist curated the world's first hotel made entirely out of snow and ice — and the Icehotel has now welcomed over one million visitors.
This winter, over 33 artists from 16 countries have spent an intensive couple of weeks in the village of Jukkasjärvi creating the hotel from scratch, under the guidance of new Creative Director Luca Roncoroni.
The artists include two British teams: father and daughter duo Jonathan and Marnie Green, and professional sculptor Robert Harding, both of whom have created Art Suites for Icehotel before.
The former pair have created a West End-themed room called 'A Night at the Theatre' with ice-carved curtains, reindeer waiting in the wings, a scale model of the hotel entrance in the center, and a frozen bed nestled amongst miniature theatre seats in the auditorium, with six life-size ice seats for guests to sit on behind.
Harding's creation is called "Bone Room" which celebrates the natural melting process of the hotel that dissolves back into the Torne River in the spring.
The room features giant bone sculptures, and a frozen bed, each glowing from within with the help of underfloor lighting.
Guests will discover a fun-filled IceBar this year, with "Torneland"— filled with ice-carved roller-coasters, games, and hot air balloons surrounding the bar.
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