Spaces

A subscription library of holiday houses, sold from nine dollars a month. This is where the company contradicts itself most visibly: the main site advertises four hundred and more stays, the Spaces product page says over twelve hundred across twenty-two countries, and a panel on that same page says over a thousand. All three numbers are its own, published at the same time, and the archive records the disagreement rather than choosing.

Part of Art of Mondays

9 moments in this segment.

1. 2025-01-07 - Living room built into the rock. A whitewashed living room is built around bare rock, with the stone left exposed as part of the floor and wall beside a striped daybed. Stays like this one are what the company means when it says these are places artificial intelligence could never feel.
2. 2025-01-07 - Whitewashed cottage and pool. A small whitewashed building with a corrugated roof stands above a stone-edged pool with mountains behind. Spaces links out to the original listing rather than handling any booking, which the company describes as a direct link to the original listing.
3. 2025-01-07 - Cabin bedroom and kitchen. A timber-lined cabin puts a hob and a bed in the same room, with a picture window onto open country. The company says new stays are added to the library every week.
4. 2025-01-07 - Writing desk under a beamed roof. A wooden desk and chair face an open window in a whitewashed room with a low beamed ceiling and a shelf of books above. The company says it picks for character and soul, and describes the selection as handpicked by humans, taking taste very seriously.
5. 2025-01-07 - Stone bedroom with rough beams. A bed sits under a rough-hewn beamed ceiling in a stone room with a window onto green leaves. The company lists 22 countries in its library, naming Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zanzibar.
6. 2025-01-07 - Cottage below a volcano. A small white cottage sits alone on a green ridge with a symmetrical volcanic cone rising behind it. It is one of eight stays Art of Mondays publishes on the membership listing itself, the only part of its library visible without paying. Art of Mondays publishes two different sizes for this library: the Spaces site says 1,200-plus hand-picked stays across 22 countries, while the group's own homepage describes it as 400-plus AirBNBs, and a third panel on the Spaces page says over 1,000 stays. The product page figure is the one preferred here, and the disagreement is the company's own.
7. 2025-01-07 - Bamboo room with a round bed. Bamboo-clad walls and a woven pendant lamp frame a doorway into a room with a circular bed. Art of Mondays says the library is organised into around thirty collections with filters for country, price, group size and what it calls vibe.
8. 2025-01-07 - Room facing the dunes. A dim earth-toned room with a round mirror and a woven rug opens through a doorway onto sand and pale sky. Art of Mondays sells access to the library from nine dollars a month billed yearly, or twelve billed monthly, with what it calls no lock-in.
9. 2025-01-07 - Bedroom above a salt flat. A cowhide rug lies on a concrete floor in a spare bedroom whose window opens onto scrub and a pale flat horizon. The company's stated pitch is time saved: finding a beautiful stay used to take hours, and the reviews it publishes all turn on hours of scrolling avoided.