These photos show the doors to Sweden’s Icehotel 2022 – they are now open.
Since 1989, Icehotels have been constructed and rebuilt every year using only snow and ice. It is located in Jukkasjarvi, which lies 125 miles north from the Arctic Circle, near the Torne River.
For this year’s winter Icehotel – No.32 – 27 artists from all over the world spent six weeks creating 12 suites, as well as three new suites in Icehotel 365, the year-round version.
‘Dickensian Street’ by British father and daughter duo Jonathan and Marnie Green
The suite titled ‘No Pressure’ depicts Earth under pressure, and the bed is placed inside a huge vice. The room was created by two Swedes, sculptor Carl Wellander and neuroscience student Klara Wellander
Pictured here is the ‘To Bed with the Chickens’ suite, created by Edith Van de Wetering and Wilfred Stijger from the Netherlands
Ice chickens roosting in the ‘To Bed with the Chickens’ suite. To go to bed before the chickens is a way of saying “go to bed with them”.
A new Icehotel design has been created by Marjolein vonk and Maurizio Peruron for ‘intimate ceremonies’.
Helped by the hotel’s construction team and Creative Director Luca Roncoroni, the artists whittled their creations using 600 tons of ice and 10 Olympic swimming pools of ‘snice’ – a mixture of snow and ice.
It is kept at a constant temperature of -5C inside, keeping the masterpieces below-zero in top condition.
This suite is called ‘UV’ and was created by designers Nicolas Triboulot and Fernand Manzi, both from France
Blue Tundra Suite, in which reindeer “gather for their migrating to the coast”. This room was created by sculptor Elisabeth Kristensen from Norway
Onomiau, an architectural and design firm in France, created this mesmerizing suite called Ginnungagap.
The amazing ‘Room Service’ suite, created by Swedes Tjasa Gusfors and Ulrika Tallving
A suite named ‘Dickensian Street’ by Jonathan and Marnie, a British father-daughter duo, is the centerpiece of the hotel. Here guests can ‘take a time trip to travel back in history down cobbles on Dickensian London streets with shops, houses, even a pub intricately made out of ice.
You can also admire the hexagonal Art Deco interiors of the “Great Gatsby” suite. There are two things guests will love: a group of monkeys and an extinct dinosaur join the party at The Room Service, while reindeer of frosty blue tundra migrate to the coast from The ‘Blue Tundra.
A suite with chickens is also available in the “To Bed With the Chickens” suite. It was created by Edith Van de Wetering from the Netherlands and Wilfred Stijger, who used the expression “go to bed with your chickens” to mean going to bed earlier.
Robert Harding (sculptor) and Timsam Harding (artist) created the room, “Different Natures”.
Marjolein Vonk (Dutch stylist, art director) and Maurizio Peruron (Italian sculptor), created the other-worldly Ceremony hall’.
This room is a collaboration of Swedish artists and sculptors AnnaSofia Maag and Emilia Elisson and My Flink. It’s called ‘Sacred Giant’.
This is the Inom room. It was made by Henkia, an artist and sculptor who has his headquarters in Berlin and Stockholm.
In the “No Pressure” suite, extinct animals are featured. With the huge vice as a bed, this room portrays Earth under a pressure.
The hotel offers activities such as snowmobiling, dogsledding and under the Northern Lights. Guests can also enjoy cocktails from frozen glasses or ice sculpture.
The hotel’s winter season will last until April 2022. For more information or to make a booking at the Icehotel, call Discover the World at 01737214 291 www.discover-the-world.com/holidays/icehotel-break.
Since 1989, every year, the Icehotel was built using only snow and ice. It is located in Jukkasjarvi (125 miles north from the Arctic Circle, on the shores the Torne River).
The Art Deco ‘Great Gatsby’ suite, created by artist and designer Tomasz Czajkowski and architect Tomasz Jastrzebski, both from Poland
This ethereal suite of products is called Molecules’ and was designed by Anja Kilian, interior designer and textile designer from Germany and Wolfgang Luchow.