Should you call it a suite or a work of art? It’s actually both. Artist Willemijn de Lint from Haarlem has hair Sin Suite After three years of hard work, it’s completely finished: a hotel room that leaves you wanting to see. She had previously built such a suite, but the municipality had to close it.
The municipality tolerated the previous Sin Suite in the Haarlem Vijfhoek for a while, but it became too hot for a number of officials. Because renting out a suite is not allowed according to the rules if it is not in your own home. Willemijn resigned herself to it, but is now hitting back with her new one Sin Suite 2.0. Just under her house on the Lange Lakenstraat, because then it is allowed.
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The suite is not quite ready yet. The hallway leading to it is still a bit bare and the entrance door, a cupboard that you can slide aside, also needs to be finished.
Contradictions
“Whether things are allowed or not. That is actually the tension I look for all the time in my work. Heaven, hell. Chastity, unchastity. That kind of thing,” says Willemijn. And to think that she made all this in addition to her ‘regular’ work as a freelance illustrator.
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And the old suite, what happened to it? “We painted it white. And we laid laminate in it. Over the glitter floor. And then we ended up selling it well. Now there is someone living there who doesn’t know that there is a great glitter floor under his or her laminate.” Willemijn laughs.
Take a look below at what the previous Sin Suite looked like.
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A night of ‘sleeping’ in the suite does cost a bit: 399 euros. The first guests have already arrived. “They are often ladies who want to surprise their boyfriends. But they actually enjoy it the most. There is a lot of art on display. Everything is themed, down to the towels and ‘slippers’,” Willemijn explains.
She and her boyfriend Ronald live above the suite. “But everything is very well insulated. So we don’t hear anything from our downstairs neighbors.”