Airbnb is turning into the hotel chains it disrupted

Minimalist furniture. Craft beer and avocado toast. Reclaimed wood. Industrial lighting. Cortados [...]

The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Augé to define them in 1992 as "non-places," has leaked into the rest of life. [...]

This confluence of style is being accelerated by companies that foster a sense of placelessness … Airbnb is a prominent example. — theverge.com