Brussels Design September

Brussels' Design September returns with a month of activities linked to contemporary design, featuring dozens of events in and around the city. Food, workshops and plenty of shopping opportunities are all part of the programme. Free your inner design junkie!

Look out for Designers' Open Doors, which allows visitors exclusive access into a dozen of Brussels' most renowned designers' workshops. They promise to explain their working methods, a congenial way of demystifying design.

Modern Design Hotel Brussels

The Pantone Hotel opened this week in Brussels, featuring modern design decked out in just seven very precise dominant colors: Pantones 478, 200, 137, 1215, 238, 353 and 298. For those of us less accustomed to the famed color-matching system, that would be approximately brown, crimson, orange, beige, lavender, seafoam and aqua. And yes, you can select your room by color.

Pantone, in case you're baffled at this point, is a company that specializes in color precision, making sure graphic designers get the exact shades they're looking for. Why they would theme a hotel around this is a separate question, one that shouldn't obfuscate the concept's general awesomeness.

Naturally, the modern hotel lounge serves colorful cocktails including the Pink Champagne Pantone 12-1107, the Lemon Drop Pantone 12-0736 and the Daiquiri Green 12-0435.

The 59-key design hotel offers free WiFi. Hotel room rates at the Pantone costs a very reasonable €59 per night.

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