Douglas Coupland has spent a lot of time in hotels.

“I lived in hotels like 35 years,” the multidisciplinary artist and author says.

That lengthy experience in suites around the world has made Coupland keenly aware of exactly what he feels is missing from most hotel room setups: personality.

“So many hotel rooms, even super good ones these days, are just like soul-crushingly generic,” Coupland says.

The Vancouver-based artist’s latest project at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel offers a solution. Called Suite X, the project saw Coupland offer a long-overdue update to the luxury hotel property’s room 1706, a space previously themed around the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“It needed a little bit of Charlie Brown Christmas tree love,” Coupland jokes of the former space. And boy, did it get it.

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