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60 Thompson is one of the highest buildings in the area and is also no slouch when it comes to design. The architect, Steven Jacobs, was a pioneer in turning SoHo’s industrial spaces into residential lofts.
Interiors are by Thomas O'Brien, whose past work includes apartments for high-profile clients such as Giorgio Armani and Donna Karan. The primary inspiration for the lobby space - a long rectangular hall on the first floor was, oddly, an old photo of Burt Lancaster lounging on an impossibly long couch at his home in Malibu. Hence the deep-buttoned velvet banquette that stretches the entire length of the hotel!
Here the guest is most definitely King. The guest rooms are very comfortable, the high-tech end is well catered to and you have an ideal location on a rare quiet stretch right in the heart of SoHo.
Great views from the hotel's rooftop, where the terrace bar has become a SoHo summer destination in its own right.
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This new ACE hotel is located in the geographic centre of Manhattan in the latest area to be reinvented; NoMad (North of Madison Square Park) is a zone filled with architectural jewels. Formerly the Breslin Hotel, the original mosaic floor and marble columns have been restored and the new lobby is home to a Stumptown coffee bar, a Rudy’s barbershop and a historically-inspired gastro pub that recalls the saloons of late 19th century Manhattan, when this area was known as the Times Square of its day.
Designers Roman & Williams combine period refined (elegant French doors, claw foot tubs and parquet flooring) with the whimsical (soap on a rope and chalk walls you can scrawl on). But the emphasis ultimately is on experience. Rooms have the vibe of a cool friend’s apartment with Smeg fridges fully stocked with real food, beer kegs and a mini-bar full of classic New York deli items. Many also have a sleek turntable with vinyl collection and for those who want to explore their own creative side, a Gibson guitar and some blank sheet music.
Truly individual, ACE hotels "just loving doing things our way" which is both basic and sophisticated with retro roots in the heyday of Portland artistic bohemia!
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
The old cattle town of Jackson is protected by national wilderness status, and in winter it's not unusual to find the odd Elk roaming between the clapboard houses on its main street. Amangani is spectacularly situated on a ridge just outside the old gunslinging town of Jackson, facing the most impressive aspect of the Tetons. The views, mesmerizing in their majesty, are not limited to the odd corner room or well-positioned public space. Every room, every bathroom, every balcony, the health club, restaurant, and even the heated outdoor swimming pool enjoy the same spectacle.
In responding to the extraordinary beauty of the setting, Ed Tuttle – architect has created a masterpiece of American modernism that is rugged yet refined.
If Frank Lloyd Wright had been a skier he would have been first to check in.
Amangani feels, big, open and ruggedly beautiful – just how you want the American West to be.
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Bauhaus in the snow: simple streamlined architecture, big wide spaces and floor to ceiling windows that frame idyllic mountain views. Set in a park of streams, footpaths, wooden bridges and ponds, in a location that commands an impressive view of Aspen's ski mountains. Throughout the complex the emphasis is on space. The rooms are huge, in fact they are apartments, each with a separate bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room. Entire walls of glass bring the mountains into your room and even in the winter months an impressive amount of daylight is reflected off the snow.
Situated on the outskirts of town, Aspen Meadows is close enough to nip in for dinner or shopping, but far away enough for you to be conscious of why Aspen is such a magnet – namely the beauty of the mountains and the superb quality of the skiing.
“Staying here is an experience completely unlike that of any ski hotel I have been to”.
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By Hollywood standards the Avalon has history. When it was still the Beverly Carlton, Marilyn Monroe lived here for two years and the hotel's reception area regularly featured in I Love Lucy.
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The art consciousness that one would expect from SoHo or Tribeca has been mixed with the more formal, well dressed profile of a 5th Avenue address. Chambers is in one of the most desirable Midtown areas – on the northern frontier just below Central Park.
Architect David Rockwell was brought in to realise an interior to go with the art. The property features a substantial permanent collection of contemporary art. A fascinating mix of photography, painting, works on paper and sculpture, the likes of which you would normally not find in one place.
With raw concrete ceilings, industrial lamps bolted to the walls and polished concrete floors in the bathroom, the interiors are not what you would expect from a hotel around the corner from Tiffany’s. But that’s exactly why it works.
Chambers, located in the heart of midtown, offers a seamless fusion of uptown luxury and downtown cool.
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“Location, history, scandal, intrigue, vice…the Chateau is the most Hollywood hotel in La La Land.”
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Proprietor Jeff Klein`s mission, when he acquired what used to be the clubhouse of the City Club of New York was to restore a club-like feeling to this stately building.
The City Club is all about the guest rooms, not the public spaces. These are rooms where you can comfortably and cosily cocoon away from the hubbub of the metropolis. Be sure to book one of the duplex suites with a living room on one floor and a bedroom on the next, below an ornate, late-Victorian ceiling - the two levels are connected by a winding staircase and with extraordinary classic windows reaching the full two stories, these could be the most glamorous hotel rooms in New York.
When you go downstairs to dine in DB Bistro Moderne, you'll experience some of the best cuisine available in Manhattan right now.
City Club is a small hotel with big ambitions.
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When it opened in 1995 the Delano must have set a world record for the number of press inches devoted to a new hotel. Journalists not normally easily impressed waxed lyrical about the white rooms, the white marble, the white-clad staff and the all-white spa.
Starck's design for the Delano's public spaces is, it has achieved the status that all architects and designers long for: recognition as a 'classic', with its soaring ceiling height and forest of imposing columns, it offers great visual drama. Ten years on, this place has still got what it takes - Messieurs Starck and Schrager: take a bow.
The Delano is on Collins with direct access to the beach. Collins Avenue offers more restaurants, bars and nightclubs in a row than any other area of South Beach and still has the Latin energy that makes the city such a hot destination.
Delano is the perfect symbol of the new Miami – hip, young and design-conscious.
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From Ethiopia to the cover of Asian Forbes, the story of Vikram Chatwal is surely the quintessential American dream. But he had a more surreal definition in mind when he commenced the overhaul of the former Majestic. That’s how a suspended crystal galleon, a monumental copper statue of Catherine the Great in Mongolian clothes, and the largest tropical fish tank in the northern hemisphere ended up being together in one place. The contribution of author and physician Deepak Chopra whose New York headquarters is within the hotel is effective and authentic ayurvedic treatments and complimentary yoga and meditation. At the other end of the dosha scale, Dream’s Ava bar has one of the best views of Times Square anywhere in New York.
Dream was conceived by Vikram Chatwal to facilitate dreams, and the hotel’s slogan, “You provide the dream, we provide the service” says it all.
A bold bit of fantasy and imagination with a rock and roll attitude in the heart of Manhattan’s Midtown.
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With all the different bars and lounges on the roof, the new age Japanese restaurant Ono on the ground floor, the bamboo pavilion Chinese-inspired bar, and the day spa that turns into a subterranean lounge after hours, there’s no shortage of entertainment on offer. The elevator to the rooftop must log more miles each night than a yellow cab during rush hour. With a big swimming pool and a view of the setting sun over the Hudson River, it’s not hard to understand why.
The Gansevoort is not just a ‘scene’ but a collection of scenes. You don’t ever need to venture out of the building to enjoy the hedonistic energy of Manhattan. By contrast, considering for instance the enormous paintings of Yakuza tattoos in the restaurant, the rooms themselves are a sedate.
Too much is never enough. If this is your mantra, then Gansevoort is your hotel.
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The Gansevoort in New York built its appeal not so much as a hotel but as a scene on the roof. It is this roof scene that the Gansevoort have brought south to Miami. Except this time it’s bigger and better. The pool on the roof is 110 feet long, and the party scene is spread out over 26,000 square feet.
The rooms at Gansevoort South are huge. Each room has a living area with couch and two chairs, a glass desk that doubles as a table, and a very large bed. The rooms are like lofts, and although guests might be tempted to spend more time in them, I honestly doubt it.
The Gansevoort is planning to open another restaurant; Miami’s STK steakhouse, a large spa based on the success of the same in New York, and the hotel will feature the first Dave Barton gym in South Beach.
It is not so much a hotel but a scene that the Gansevoort have brought south to Miami.
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When the Hotel first opened its doors in 1925 it quickly became the place for artists, adventurers and bon vivants to rub elbows. Babe Ruth liked to drink at the bar, Humphrey Bogart was married here and Mark Twain liked to play pool in the park. Ian Schrager’s idea was to renew the bohemian edge and to achieve this he enlisted the artist Julian Schnabel. The Gramercy was not so much designed as collected; voluptuous velvet curtains suspended from bronze rods, hand tufted rugs, colours inspired by the renaissance, juxtaposed with daring contemporary art. The overwhelming ambience is that of an artist’s lair. Exciting and original public spaces are a Schrager trademark and here guests can enjoy two bars, a private rooftop garden with both indoor and outdoor lounging and dining space, a new Danny Meyer restaurant and as a resident, albeit temporary, you will be given keyed access to the Park itself!
The only private park in New York, Gramercy Park was inspired by the glamour and charm of a London square.
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Built from scratch by a creative team, The Marcel Wanders designed entrance is a hit, the completely off the wall Thor restaurant on the ground floor is consistently voted in New York’s top 100, and the rooms, with their all yellow or all black bathrooms are a sumptuously spacious alternative to smaller spaces elsewhere in Manhattan.
Thor is the Viking God of the area, a thunderbolt of a restaurant enhanced by Wanders’ wild wallpaper and his outhouse in the middle of the space. But the real plus of Hotel on Rivington came as a surprise to everyone, including the owners. There had never been a tower in this area, so no one knew that it would have such an amazing view. A view of New York’s famous skyline from a completely new perspective.
Situated right in the middle of the Lower East Side, Hotel on Rivington is a study in contrast; a shiny glass and steel tower in a neighbourhood of tenement buildings
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Originally the extravagant Medinah Athletic Club its doors first opened in 1929, and shut again in 1934, one more victim of the catastrophic Wall Street Crash.
One of the amazing spaces remaining from that era is the pool situated between the eleventh and twelfth floors, set in a soaring space and flanked by elaborate walls of leaded glass. On first impression, this is not a swimming pool, it's a cathedral filled with water, and even after eighty years it's this that remains the hotel's star attraction.
The Intercontinental group embarked on a quarter-billion dollar restoration that not only recreated the original designs in authentic detail, but also laid on all the high-tech extras and opened a series of trend-setting bars and restaurants. For lots of different reasons, the hotel has become a focal point in the city -a hive of activity with a real buzz.
Extravagant and eccentric - it will never win any awards for streamlining, but who cares when it's so much fun to stay there?
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A romantic hideaway in the heart of Palm Springs, this is a place of hand-washed linen sheets, canopied four poster beds, lace, ceiling fans, slate and wooden floors, furniture from Rajasthan, chairs from Mexico, glassware from France, black and white photography and lots of old books.
By night, candlelight flickers, the pool glows between palm trees, and the lights from the guestrooms peek out through small, typically Moroccan windows onto courtyards and outdoor plazas.
Guestrooms are spread across two villas – a Moroccan style villa built in 1924 and a 1937 Mediterranean style villa.
“If you are seeking a seductive retreat from day to day reality, it's perfect. The keyword is romance.”
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Spend a few nights living a fantasy – staying in an environment quite unlike your own.
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The Mondrian South Beach is a curved piece of modernist architecture with an interior designed by controversial Marcel Wanders. The style is definitely post minimalist with a sophisticated colour palette of gold, black and white. With his trademark chandeliers throughout, comfort in the sensual sense is given centre stage inside and out. The huge pool with private cabanas and individual plunge pools, surrounded by a lush garden, lounge areas, secret pathways and kissing areas is definitely not your average pool.
The setting is straight out of CSI Miami, the silhouette of downtown Miami is behind the expansive blue waters of Biscayne Bay. Because it faces west it also has the sunsets; best watched with a mojito in hand from the bayside bar or private rooftop bar.
There are no rooms! Every guest gets a studio or apartment - The convenience of a residence with the luxury of hotel service.
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Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, USA
A restaurant with rock-star status and hotel literally next to the cable car!
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The organic architecture is as adventurous as the location. You approach along a private small mountain road that winds its way through dense forest until you arrive at reception. A series of treehouses and ocean rooms gaze across to the mountains or vast expanse of sea and sky. The treehouses are suspended on timber stilts, a mélange of triangular shapes creating an interior unlike any other. The ocean houses are similarly innovative, virtually buried in the side of the steep slope from which they look out, with roofs covered in topsoil and planted. The architect, Mickey Muennig’s fusion of glass, stone, slate and native woods reflects a lifelong commitment to environmentally appropriate design.
Extraordinary location, extraordinary architecture – but even these are not the only drawing cards of Post Ranch Inn. Because many guests come first and foremost for the food at Sierra Mar. New California cuisine is truly world-class and floor-to-ceiling glass affords magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean.
Spectacularly situated, perched on a ridge that drops one thousand feet down to the azure lapping waves of the Pacific.
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The Raleigh is among the many architectural treasures that have survived from Miami’s golden age; today it still embodies the dual art deco philosophy of seductive show and the art of living. The result is neither loud nor flashy, but memorable in a more subtle way – like an exquisitely tailored suit, whose quality, originality and impeccable taste reveal themselves without the need for fanfare.
And it has the pool – immortalised in the movies of synchronised swimmer Esther Williams; voted by Travel&Leisure magazine as one of the ten most beautiful in the world. This giant pastiche of baroque curves surrounded by Moroccan medjul palm trees can still decades on, elicit oohs and ahs from new guests taken with the sensational impact of the jewel like Art Deco lagoon.
A consummate mix of style and understatement, of elegance and comfort, of glamour and warmth, an original Art Deco jewel.
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It is Soho’s great collection of cast-iron architecture that sets the local precedent for the Egyptian columns, Oriental lanterns and turn of the century crafts ornaments that distinguish the Soho Grand’s interior. Plus a century old city ordinance prohibition on using the ground floor led the designer to create an entrance that is quite out of the ordinary. Serving as an anteroom to the main lobby and reception above it heightens the impact not just of the lobby, but also of the staircase that is embedded with the glass bottle-bottoms traditionally used along SoHo sidewalks. The design of the guest rooms is contemporary with arts and crafts style furniture and vintage Manhattan photography that reflect the history and ambience of the area. The Soho Grand is gutsy, industrial and artistic, an apt metaphor for SoHo itself.
A 363 room homage to the industrial and artistic loft heritage of this unique part of downtown Manhattan
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The rules are simple, if you’re not a guest you cannot eat in the restaurant, swim in the pool, lunch on the roof, have a drink in the bar, watch a film in the private screening room, throw a private party in the library, or chill out in the Cowshed – the club’s famous spa… unless you’re a member. But one thing it is not, is stuffy. As a club, it has managed to attract the kind of people that normally never belong to clubs. Film directors, writers, artists, creative types in all fields make up the member roster, and yet Soho is not painfully arty either.
The look, if it has to be defined as such, is a mix of laid back modern and iconic antique, with the odd bit of bling. The rooms are bohemian loft with soaring ceilings, exposed beams, chandeliers and big, baroque carved beds. The Playhouse and Playground rooms have giant egg-shaped baths big enough for two. But more important than how it looks is how it feels with just the right balance of cosy and trendy.
Soho House is not a hotel, it’s a private club – the hottest private club in New York – that happens to have a small hotel.
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Like all buildings in the downtown district of Los Angeles, this used to be an office block, and because it was built by an oil company it is a luxurious office block – with high ceilings, marble floors and bronze oil rigs on decorative panels – in other words, perfect for a funky hotel.
Bright red vibrating circular water beds in Star Trek-esque space pods, orange banquettes, white fifties plastic furniture, red Astroturf and a rooftop swimming pool (complete with nightly skinny dippers).
Los Angeles like you’ve never seen it before. Lunch in the yellow 1960s diner, drinks in the pink and black lobby, cocktails at the rooftop bar, clubbing by the pool after dark – this is Tinsel Town.
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Robert Redford's commitment to the environment and his sensitivity to the creative process make Sundance unique in the American West.
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Shelter Island is a place of green forests and country roads that wind past rustic clapboard and shingle farmhouses. The only way to reach it is still by water from Long Island, and in an age of instant gratification, most people haven't the patience to wait for a ferry that can only carry fifteen cars at a time. The place is simple, unspoilt and unpretentious.
The hotel is completely in step with the rhythm and pace of the island. There are twenty rooms, all with a spacious terrace, a separate sitting area, a simple king-size bed and a generous pile of fluffy white towels. On the food side, Sunset has a café/diner for breakfast and brunch, and a tree-covered outdoor terrace for lunch and dinner. Needless to say, both are literally a stone's throw from the beach and offer uninterrupted views of one of the prettiest bays on Shelter Island.
Island life is about beaches, sailing, water-skiing and cycling… all of which is why Sunset Beach is such a perfect escape.
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The Carlyle is the Upper East Side, and vice versa. All the values of patrician New York are the qualities that define The Carlyle. Woody Allen can often be found jamming on his clarinet with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band in the Café Carlyle (resident caberet jazz/venue) on a Monday night. A neighbourhood that has a world class museum on practically every other corner, not to mention the proximity of Central Park, The Upper East Side is interesting precisely because it's not like the rest of New York. The doormen with their traditional brass-buttoned coats and caps, school children in blazers and ties, discreet little restaurants tucked into the brownstones on gentrified side streets, and, of course, the shopping, all give this part of New York a signature as distinctive as the tenement housing of the Lower East Side.
One of New York's most genuine and charismatic experiences.
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Clift’s stone exterior opens onto a glowing purple entryway that prepares guests for the Phillipe Starck designed wonderland within. The soaring lobby contains one of the most eclectic furniture collections in all of California including chairs from Eames, a Salvador Dali coffee table and a surreal stool by Renee Marguerite. The striking centerpiece is the fireplace commissioned from French artist Gerard Garouste, a towering bronze relief that sits perfectly with the lobby’s moody atmosphere. This is a hotel of dramatic contrast. The rooms are pale and full of light where the lobby, the restaurant and the library are dark and seductive in an elegant contemporary way that attracts both guests and locals to linger over lunch, hang out in the lobby and the bar starts to fill up at 4.30 in the afternoon!
Just one block from Union Square, the Clift is in a historic building, with a listed bar and the famous Nob Hill tram just around the corner.
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The classic lobby and drawing room with eclectic furniture and original artwork open on to a courtyard garden. Upstairs the eighty eight rooms are all unique with hand loomed Tibetan silk rugs and Moroccan tiled rain showers. The result is a hotel that feels like a film director’s house. Downstairs, Shibui Spa is the hotel’s big extravagance. Reserved exclusively for hotel guests, with treatment rooms, a Japanese bathing room, a 1,000 sq ft fitness room, and a pool like no other in New York. The lantern-lit swimming pool is housed in an authentic 250-year old Japanese bamboo farmhouse, painstakingly reconstructed by Japanese craftsmen inside the hotel.
TriBeCa is an intoxicating blend of downtown street cred, loft living and a handful of sympathetic boutiques, restaurants and bars. The hotel’s own restaurant, Locanda Verde is in the style of a neighbourhood Italian tavern. With a wood burning oven, chairs and tables on the sidewalk and an open kitchen.
Robert De Niro, a long term resident of TriBeCa, the city’s most sought after neighbourhood, has created the area’s iconic hotel with the look and feel of a chic members club
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The Peninsula is chic, elegant and subdued. The rooms are large and luxuriously appointed, with exquisite marble bathrooms, down pillows, understated furniture, and soft amber lighting. So far, so good. There is also an amazing spa that most guests find hard to leave. There's a beautiful aqua mosaic-tiled pool, flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows, on the twentieth floor. The view is straight out to the shores of Lake Michigan (a stone’s throw from the hotel). For those with the time (and you should really make the time) the spa has a whirlpool and lap pool, gym, yoga room and steam room, and any number of oriental treatments.
Almost all the stores worth going to are no more than a mile from the hotel. There's also plenty of culture to divert you in Chicago: you could take a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural legacy, or you could make time to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. But my hunch is that you will almost certainly be too busy indulging yourself.
It's all about dressing up in your best clothes for dinner, ordering late-night snacks with champagne, recovering in the spa, and hitting the town feeling like a million bucks.
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Designed by famed British architect David Chipperfield, merging two existing beach front properties with a brand new, purpose-built tower, Schrager later added his signature touches.
The whole of the ground floor, leading all the way to the beach, has been turned into one seamless nocturnal play zone for grown-ups. The lighting is low, with a few thousand candles; the music is seductive and the design is a mix of every ethnic style that has ever contributed to the culture of chilling out – Greek tavern stools, Moroccan daybeds, Rajasthani palace chairs, African tribal stools, cushions and more cushions in hare Krishna colours. Rooms are loaded with the latest high-tech options, as well as more old-fashioned creature comforts such as plenty of closet space and enormous bathrooms.
Redefining cool on Miami's South Beach, The Shore Club combines classic minimalist design with quirky twists.
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Sunset Strip is where the Hollywood legend began. Over the years places closed and places opened, but the Strip endured as the place to hang out.
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If there is a standard to the Standard, it is to, whenever possible, break with convention. Located on Belle Isle, overlooking the waters of Biscayne Bay, five minutes from the beach, the hotel’s waterfront has private boating docks and views of Miami’s sunsets. The restaurants are open for any meal, any time of the day and most of the accommodation is in Sixties-style cabanas on a stretch of land with the Miami lagoon as its backyard.
The hotel is also a holistic and hydrotherapy oriented spa, inspired by the social bath house rituals of the ancient Romans, Russians and Turks; communal bathing is encouraged. Indoor and outdoor baths include a Turkish Hamman and Roman Steam Room.
The Standard hotels are consistently fun, imaginative, sexy and unconventional.
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The 18-storey structure consisting of two concrete-framed glass slabs recalls mid-century modernist but the most interesting aspect is how this building interacts with the High Line, an abandoned 80-year-old elevated freight railroad running down Manhattan’s west side that has been converted into a park for locals and tourists to kick back.
The glass means the interiors have floor-to-ceiling views; of the Hudson to the West, MePa topped by the Empire State to the East and the High Line directly below. Every room maximises its view, none more so than the double height glass-encased space on the 18th floor that will open up in 2010 as an exclusive venue for guests and those on the list!
In an area now so well known for its food, its obvious that even the most eye-popping architecture and a view will only get you so far. The rest is up to the restaurant.
Located in MePa - currently New York’s hottest restaurant and bar scene – the new Standard is described by the New York Observer as "the most unusual and significant New York building in years".
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THEhotel at Mandalay Bay was created in recognition of the fact that, for some people, less is more and has opted for refined luxury as its signature. The rooms are all suites; each guest gets a separate living room and bedroom regardless of whether you’re a high roller or not.
The miX bar and the miX restaurant are exceptional enough to stand alone. Situated on the top floor of the tower that houses THEhotel, miX not only has some of the best views in Vegas but also some of the best reviews. It’s the home of the three Michelin star talent of Alain Ducasse, and the space is as big as its reputation.
THEhotel seems to follow the philosophy of Oscar Wilde; “I have but the simplest taste - I am always satisfied with the best”.
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Viceroy Palm Springs’ sixty-five rooms are spread out over surrounding grounds with a variety of studios, suites and private villas. Interior designer, Kelly Wearstler, opted to re-evoke the glamour of Hollywood's golden age. The style is a contemporary theatrical version of old European aristocratic decor: lots of chandeliers, formal drapery and Regency-style dining chairs, all transforming the Viceroy into a collage of stylish accommodation options.
The grounds are landscaped in a Beverly Hills movie mogul manner, with three swimming pools (two for adults only), lots of palm trees, plenty of potted topiary, and enough ceramic whippets to fill a kennel!
This desert town, framed by the San Jacinto Mountains, has been a magnet for creative and flamboyant individuals since the early 1920s.
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Nobody would argue that San Francisco is a fun town. It has lots of bars and restaurants, a very famous Chinatown, and a reputation for European-style sophistication. The W, located just around the corner from Union Square, is in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping area, and just next door to the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).
The new guest rooms are light and fanciful, and in sync with Northern Californian sunshine. It’s not the new décor however that makes the W such an attractive place to stay. Rather, it’s the ambience. There’s a snappy lively pace to the place, people are constantly on the move – for a quick coffee at the bar downstairs or breakfast in the restaurant, or some work on a laptop in the Adirondack chairs in the building’s outside foyer.
The W in San Francisco has a real buzz, just like the city itself.
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For the Wynn, hotel is a strangely inappropriate description. It should be called Wynn environment. It has more upmarket brand-name boutiques than the most cosmopolitan shopping mall, more famous restaurants than most cities, and only London’s West End and Broadway have more shows. From the Manolo Blahnik boutique to the surreal Lake of Dreams, from shows such as Le Rêve to the waterfall inside Tryst nightclub and from the huge Ferrari-Maserati dealership to the 140 ft man-made mountain, the Wynn has merged fantasy with luxury in a way that will blow your mind. There is also an award-winning casino of course, but compared to all the other casinos on the strip, Wynn is very, very different as it is filled with light.
The opening of Wynn was the three-dimensional realisation of Steve Wynn’s dream – to make Vegas a destination for people with money and taste.
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