Hotel Max in Seattle has transformed its lobby into a Pop art gallery displaying original works including one of the most iconic images in Pop, “Campbell’s Soup Can I – Vegetable (F&S 48),” a serigraph from 1968 by Andy Warhol.
The gallery is on display in conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum (SAM)’s “Pop Departures,” an exhibition including works by Pop artists from the 1960s as well as works by subsequent generations of artists from the 1980s and today for whom Pop art was an inspiration.
In addition to the famous soup can, Hotel Max’s lobby will showcase one of Andy Warhol’s “Flowers” from 1964 and several more recent works by Pop artists featured in the SAM show, including “Money (With Space Between),” a 13-color lithograph screen print from 1994 by John Baldessari; “Balloon Dog (Blue),” a limited-edition fine porcelain plate by Jeff Koons from 2003; and “Five Flavored Fannie,” a 2006 color lithograph by Mel Ramos. All five works will be on display through January 11, 2015, when the SAM “Pop Departures” show closes.
Hotel Max’s Miller’s Guild also has created a Pop art-inspired cocktail, All Tomorrow’s Parties (US$14), a banana daiquiri made with house-aged Agricole rhum inspired by Warhol’s cover art for the Velvet Underground’s debut album, “The Velvet Underground and Nico.” When it is served, the restaurant’s bartenders — in a nod to Warhol’s obsession with instant photography — take a keepsake Polaroid of the guests as they serve the drink and give it to them.