HOTELS > Victorian Voyage; Hotel Gladstone, Toronto

At the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, a different artist has created each room. Room 404 celebrates "the awesomeness of Canadiana," say its artists, Jenny Francis and The Big Stuff, a reupholstering business. As they write in the artists' statement that accompanies the room: "We are fabricating nostalgia: a brief, whimsical fantasy of Canada."

Allyson Mitchell, the artist behind room 304 at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel, wanted it to look "like a woodsy retreat where lesbian separatist commune meets (Canadian amusement park) Storybook Gardens."

Artists Susan Collett, Penelope Stewart, and Nicholas Stirling turned room 407 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto into a meditation on travel in the Victorian era, when the original hotel was built.