Hotel Deluxe II
Hotel Deluxe II
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Hotel Deluxe II
From Guido Argentini's Hotel Deluxe series, photographed in a European-style Pasadena mansion and published in Playboy in December 2001, this image is pure constructed fantasy: a gold-saturated tableau staged inside an opulent interior, equal parts cinema, ritual, and dream.
Argentini's work belongs to a language of deliberate artifice. Florence-born and Milan-based, he developed a photographic style built around polished surfaces, theatrical bodies, and environments that feel designed rather than discovered. In Hotel Deluxe, that sensibility becomes a luxury-hotel fiction, where every gesture is posed and every surface is part of the performance.
That instinct traces to something Argentini has said about his subject:
I was always fascinated by the feminine universe, by its circularity, by its capability of simply being.
In Hotel Deluxe II, three women in black lingerie, garters, and stockings are arranged before a gilded mirror and a candlelit bed. The central figure faces the viewer with her arms lifted and held at the wrists by the two flanking her, a fine chain falling from her choker, the whole composition lit in warm gold. It is choreography as much as photograph, theater staged for the camera.
Photographed by Argentini and preserved within the Playboy Legacy Collection, the work is part of the forty-eight-print archival edition released for Playboy's 50th anniversary.
Collection Note
The Playboy Legacy Collection was released in 2007 for the magazine's 50th anniversary as a forty-eight-print archival edition curated under the direction of Hugh Hefner. Each print is embossed with the archive seal bearing the Playboy Bunny mark and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.