Inside it's all colour, whether in the Yellow Room or the red Windward Suite.
RED BANK Suite No. 4, "Mozartiana," and other works by Tchaikovsky; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Inside, the design is stylishly simple, with wooden floors and neutral colours splashed with panels of pillar box red, while suites feature terraces with plunge pools.
It's the best room, hung with paintings of Christ and children and crowded with furniture from a more hopeful time - a dresser, a dining table with six chairs and a red three-piece suite hung with fancifully embroidered cloths to hide the holes and rips in the arms.
In "Arras Suite Red" more than 800 little squares depicting slightly crumpled red fabric coalesce into a vibrating field of ordered sensuality (Johnson).
Up close in "Arras Suite Red" you can see each little picture shows a slightly crumpled expanse of red cloth.
It was not the suite of red leather furniture that conjured up images of the recreation room on a mother ship ($40,000).
For its "Pick Your Party" package, the Mayflower Renaissance in Washington is decking out suites with red or blue party trimmings and stocking them with politics-themed DVDs.
Part of the Graceland empire, and guarded to keep out nonguests, the 128-room Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, 3677 Elvis Presley Boulevard, (877) 777-0606, fax (901) 332-2107, www.elvis.com/epheartbreakhotel, is saturated with Elvis kitsch, from the heart-shaped pool to King photos in rooms and the red-hued Burning Love suite.
Conversely, excessive pessimism could lead to empty shelves, disappointed customers and red faces in the executive suite.
