Hotel Review: SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles | nytimes.com

A grand hotel transports you back in time. In this case, expect to be transported back about a year, to a gilded age when hotel minibars swelled with Champagne and hotel bathrooms featured $85 bottles of lotion. SLS is a throwback. But it’s a wonderful throwback, thanks to Philippe Starck, who has been designing groundbreaking hotels for decades, and Sam Nazarian, the owner, who let him spend more than $100 million on the first in a planned...