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When the Hotel Shop Is an Art Gallery — Tomoko Sugimoto’s Witty Paintings...
Tomoko Sugimoto works the windows. You’ don’t see many art galleries amidst the relentless array of shops, restaurants and bars in the Meatpacking District. (You don’t see many butchers, either, but...
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Need a Bookcase or Coffee Table? Check Out Christopher Columbus’s Tag Sale
At home with Christopher Columbus. No, you can’t buy the Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria. But how about a price-slashed Mitchell Gold white leather side chair? Or a deeply discounted 48-inch Samsung LED TV?...
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How The Pierre Hotel Plunged Deep into Fashion Week — And Yes, Those Are...
Dresses in the Two E Bar/Lounge by (from left) Angela Gao, Wen Shi, Laura Siegel and Samantha Sleeper. New York hotels love Spring Fashion Week, unspooling in the dead of winter, for obvious reasons –...
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Are Those Chairs Really Hanging From The Ceiling?
Be seated. Are these the ultimate high chairs? Sitting pretty inches from the ceiling at the Museum of Arts & Design in Columbus Circle is Year and a Day, artist Marc Andre Robinson’s circle of...
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A Raid on the Helly Nahmad Gallery at The Carlyle Hotel
Steps from the Helly Nahamad Gallery. It’s no mystery why hotels want shops on their properties almost as much as restaurants and bars. The best keep guests entertained (and on the premises), attract...
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Mingling With Giles Bensimon’s Elles in the Lobby at the Sofitel
Cindy Crawford at the Sofitel. What hotel wouldn’t kill to bring Charlize Theron, Cindy Crawford, Naomie Campbell, Christy Turlington, Uma Thurman, Ines de La Fressange, Jennifer Lopez and Britney...
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New York Hotels Where F. Scott Fitzgerald Played and the Real Jay Gatsby Lived
The Plaza. As The Great Gatsby, the most hyped movie since, well, Iron Man 3, steamrolls into theaters, two hotels are proudly trumpeting their Gatsby connections. Most obvious is The Plaza. When Daisy...
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Ten Ideas to Steal From The 2013 Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Kristen McGinnis’s lacquered dining room. The best hotel rooms are the ones filled with things you want to steal – like decorating ideas. A great decorator show house is even better. The designers, of...
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Bored with that Solitary Mint on Your Pillow? JW Marriott Offers a New Take...
Dream Bar. It’s a tiny thing, but a treat at turndown is an easy way for a hotel to win points with its guests and differentiate itself from the competition — and airbnb. I know I’m grateful when...
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On the Look-out for Eggs During New York’s Big Egg Hunt? Check Out These...
Mattia Bonetti egg at The Mark. Every year or so we’re treated to a citywide exhibition of large objects decorated by artists, like upright pianos or fiberglass cows. So why not eggs? The Fabrege Big...
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