New Singapore hotel claims a city first

Hotel Vagabond ? which describes itself as ?Singapore?s first?experience-driven luxury boutique hotel? – opens in October.
Its Salon area is ?designed to immerse guests in?the theatre of art, food, drink and conversation? and it claims to be the only hotel in Singapore to feature an ?artist in residence program?.
With an emphasis on writing, photography and performance art of?all kinds, artists will be invited to apply for residencies of up to three months.
The hotel also says it is ?the first and only hotel in Asia? to?feature interiors by French designer Jacques Garcia, who was responsible for the design of Hotel Costes in Paris, Hotel Danieli in Venice, Hotel Mamounia in?Marrakech and the Nomad in New York.