Out with the old, in with the view…
Posted by Mary on January 12th, 2009
Sometimes we’ve got to be pretty imaginative when visiting hotel rooms during the transitional golden hour of the hotel maid, but our most recent research trip to NYC was a lesson in a new kind of creative thinking. It’s safe to say that I had never thought of purchasing a personal hard-hat for hotel site visits until this trip. We’ve got faith in the grand plans of groovy hotel designers working in the Big Apple though, and on our shortlist for upcoming 
Smithiness you’ll find the following:
A modern Milanese masterpiece hits Manhattan with the arrival of the Cooper Square Hotel. Antonio Citterio, Italian interior designer extraordinaire behind the über-stylish Bulgari Hotel in Milan has brought a touch of European chic to the city that never sleeps (but if you do want to catch a few winks you’ll have your choice of ivory silk shorty, black kimono, or trad white terry cloth to head to bed in).
One of many new projects on the go from the people that brought you 60 Thompson, Thompson Lower East Side is an all-day hotel affair. Catch the early easterly sunshine poolside, head to your room for a late afternoon snooze, follow the sunset warmly waning in the west from the outdoor Allen Street cocktail bar and move on in for late night dining à la Toronto’s top chef, Susur Lee.
Move over George and Ira, there’s a new Tin Pan Alley family in town. Ace Hotel New York is bound to create a buzz the
second it opens its doors as the latest and greatest of hipster hideaways. If its stylish sister property in Portland is anything to go by, this property will be an indisputable haven of cool in 2009.
And last but most definitely not least, The Standard New York straddles the historic highline and boasts 360 degree views stretching from good old Lady Liberty up the Hudson and on over to the Empire State Building… New York, New York – what a wonderful town! Of course we wouldn’t expect anything less than perfect from the most recent addition to André Balazs’ not-so-standard line of Standards in Miami, Downtown LA, and Hollywood. It may look like, well, a building site at the moment (see photo), but we have high hopes. As, we imagine, does André…
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