There's a trend now in hotels towards the neutral in design - a kind of elegant anonymity. Once hotel rooms would have artwork of landscapes or maybe something abstract that suggested a kind of personality. And wallpaper that made some sort of aesthetic choice. But modern luxury of the kind I see more and more is a whispered taste. A blank slate that tries to create a buffer between you and the world. As if the ultimate service that can be rendered by the hotel staff is to disappear. You see its equivalent in retail customer service. Once the height of luxury was having an attentive sales assistant doting on you. Now, a high-end store knows enough to make themselves invisible for a generation that is most comfortable interacting with other people through mediated channels with a screen in between them.