WANDER | Douglas Coupland x Suite X x Faimont Pacific Rim

"I'm very much a product of the late twentieth century."

Coal Harbour—(July 23, 2025) It was a real treat to tour acclaimed Vancouver-based visual artist and novelist Douglas Coupland's latest design collaboration, Suite X, located inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in the Corner Suite on the newly renovated Fairmont Gold floor lounge, overlooking the scenic Vancouver Waterfront.

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Coupland's suite, referencing both his first book Generation X (1991), where he initially coined and popularized the demographic term, and the generational cultural status he holds, is ornately decorated with aristic items from his personal collection and library.



Suite X's conception aims to blur the lines between art and design with hospitality as a vibrant extension of Pacific Rim's usual hotel offerings all the while immersing guests in a sort of "living gallery" of contemporary culture and Canadian identity.

caviar martini (with vodka, vermouth aroma, and a liquid olive)

Fairmont's one-of-a-kind hospitality design concept offers a fun reimagining of a the notion of a timeless luxury hotel suite. Walking around Suite X, from the kitschy bedroom to the retro pop art living room, is like stepping into the cultural mind of Coupland with one of the city's most sweeping views as its backdrop.



Fun fact: Both of my parents worked at the same originally Steveston-based baby furniture factory, Storkcraft, for many years that Coupland was also briefly employed at as a junior graphic designer for seven months in the mid-1980s—something we both enjoy discussing every few years at his latest creative exhibition. Small world.


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