{"product_id":"plc-s2-09-hotel-deluxe-ii","title":"Hotel Deluxe II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fpa-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003ch1\u003eHotel Deluxe II\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003ePhotographed by Guido Argentini, featuring Trisha Campbell, Roxanne Galla, Irina Voronina, and Melissa Young. Published December 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eArgentini'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThat instinct traces to something Argentini has said about his subject:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cblockquote class=\"pullquote\"\u003eI was always fascinated by the feminine universe, by its circularity, by its capability of simply being.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003ePhotographed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eCollection Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"meta\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/playboy-legacy-collection\"\u003eRead the full history of the Playboy Legacy Collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Playboy Legacy Collection","offers":[{"title":"16 × 20 in - $450","offer_id":47674887176417,"sku":"PL-LC-S2-09-16","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 × 24 in - $625","offer_id":47674887209185,"sku":"PL-LC-S2-09-24","price":625.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30 × 40 in - $850","offer_id":48399392964833,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 × 50 in - $1150","offer_id":48399392997601,"sku":null,"price":1150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2765\/9233\/files\/PLCS2-09_HOTEL_DELUXE_II_finephotoart.png?v=1779498033","url":"https:\/\/www.finephoto.art\/products\/plc-s2-09-hotel-deluxe-ii","provider":"FinePhoto.Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}