Located in Covent Garden, St Martins Lane is a dramatic and daring reinvention of the fantasy hotel. Smart, witty and sophisticated, Philippe Starck’s design is a brilliant collision of influences – from the modern to the baroque – that suffuses the hotel with energy, vitality and magic. Entered through improbably tall, luminescent yellow-glass …
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Standard New York, USA
The High Line is the new renovation project in Manhattan, of the old railway turned a public park, which runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. The New York Standard Hotel is the 18 story building over the High Line. Andre Balazs’s latest …
Read More »Indochine: Stories, Shaken and Stirred
New York’s iconic downtown restaurant Indochine celebrates its 25th anniversary and the book containes stories by Salman Rushdie, Moby, Julianne Moore, and Bob Colacello are combined with photographs by Patrick McMullan, Roxanne Lowit, and Patrick Demarchelier, along with artworks by Francesco Clemente, Helmut Lang, Tom Sachs, Ruben Toledo, Narciso Rodriguez, Ross Bleckner, …
Read More »Bulgari, Milan
The first Bulgari hotel opened in 2004 and since then become the star of the Milan furniture fair and fashion weeks. Being in the center of Milan, in beautiful Brera district you can see everybody, who is somebody either for lunch in the garden or at its lavish bar during evening. The …
Read More »Delano, Miami
Located in the heart of South Beach and directly on the ocean, Delano has became a Miami classic. Delano has a glamorous, Indoor/Outdoor lobby, offering a seamless flow between a series of unique indoor and outdoor rooms. Philippe Starck has assembled a stunning international collection of furniture and objects, including works from such …
Read More »Standard Downtown, Los Angeles
Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, Standard Downtown is not only ideal for business travelers, but for everybody who loves stylish, fun places to stay. The building was originally constructed in 1958 as the headquarters of Standard Oil. Designed by Los Angeles architect of the period Claude Beelman …
Read More »Standard Hollywood, Los Angeles
Standard Hollywood is sexy, fun, stylish, comfortable and affordable. Designed like a sixties motel, it is in the heart of West Hollywood, on Sunset Strip almost the only place in LA that you can actually walk from one place to the other. Being the first Standard hotel of Andre Balazs …
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