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What’s With All These New NYC Hotels? | nymag.com

The Standard, the Ace, the Jane, the Cooper Square; now, or very shortly, these stylish hotels will be adding hundreds more rooms to New York’s existing 85,000. Any expansion at this moment in time seems odd, but a hotel boom—with the resurgent dollar scaring off Europeans and business travel slowing to a crawl—feels particularly ill-conceived. Of course, these properties, and the 35 others set to open in 2009, have been in the works for years, planned when occupancy rates were reliably in the 80-plus percent range. (There were a record 47 million visitors in 2008, up a million from the year before.) No wonder hoteliers expanded.

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Deluxe Designer Hotels | MSNBC.com

When Hotel Missoni opens its doors in Edinburgh, Scotland, in early 2009, lovers of the Italian fashion house's signature zigzag prints will be afforded the chance to sleep on Missoni-initialed sheets, eat off of Missoni plates and even swig a cocktail at the Missoni bar.

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Sheraton Has Designs On Fresh Look | usatoday.com

Sheraton, one of the largest hotel chains with more than 400 properties worldwide, is getting an extensive makeover after years of losing customers to competitors. The $1.7 billion project is aimed at renovating nearly half the hotels in North America by next year with fresher decor, brighter colors and lobbies that beckon guests with new restaurants and cafes.

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The Boutique Hotel Gone Wrong | nysun.com

The world is full of people who possess not the slightest measure of visual tact. As long they decide to become accountants, riveters, or matadors, this makes no difference to their lives or those of the people around them. The problems start, however, when they presume to take up, say, painting. And, of course, all hell breaks loose when they imagine they are interior designers. And then you have Julian Schnabel, who fancies himself both a painter and an interior designer. In truth, he is neither the one nor the other.As if any further proof were needed beyond his most recent show at Gagosian, visit the newly renovated Gramercy Park Hotel, which opens today...

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Why I Love...Philippe Starck's Hudson Hotel Library Room | findaproperty.com

Afroditi Krassa ignores the critics and acclaims Philippe Starck's lavish interiors for the Hudson Hotel, New York. "To me, Phillippe Starck is a bit like the Britney Spears of design. He's so popular and so commercial, and he's done so much that people forget how intelligent his pieces are in reality. "It took me a long, long time to start to like him; but the more time I've spent in design, the more I kept revisiting things that he's already done, and started to appreciate how many different areas he's covered, and how intellectual his pieces really are. "A lot of people tend to look at the bigger picture with his work, which is very impressive, and then they forget to look closer - at the detailing, and use of the materials, and the way he changes the whole archetype of objects right from the beginning.

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Let the pillow fights begin ... Kimpton Opens 70 Park Avenue Hotel On Manhattan | USA Today

"If you're not in New York, you're not anybody," says the chairman of fast-growing Kimpton Hotels, which opened its first property in the city last month, the 70 Park Avenue Hotel. Never heard of Kimpton? The company's founder, Bill Kimpton, is credited with inventing the boutique hotel concept 23 years ago in San Francisco, before Ian Schrager unveiled his first ode to hipness, Morgans, in New York in 1985. But despite its place in history, the 38-hotel chain has been little known outside the West until recently.

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Manhattan: For 2 Hoteliers, a Freewheeling Business Style | NYTimes

The organization owns or has interests in 20 one-of-a-kind Manhattan hotels with more than 4,000 rooms. It is preparing to develop a hotel in TriBeCa with Robert DeNiro as a partner, is converting a landmarked office building at 90 West Street into residences and has several other residential projects under way. The organization consists of two guys with cellphones. Richard Born and Ira Drukier manage properties as diverse as the Mercer Hotel in SoHo and the Travel Inn on West 42nd Street without a staff. They work out of separate offices. While one is developing a project, the other is out looking for investment opportunities.

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