http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T19:05:33Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Chateau%20Marmont http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/19/10237/9786 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/AndreArkitip.jpg" class="top"> <p>It has arrived: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/28/14644/4757/hotels/Andr_Balazs_Magazine_Centerfold">50th issue</a> of <i>Arkitip</i>, which is both focused on hotelier <b>André Balazs</b> and designed by him, dropped into our mailbox yesterday. Each magazine includes a "surface mat" featuring a design of one of André's properties, and aside from a few articles at the end, André was in control of the content of the entire edition. <p>So what did we learn about the hot hotelier? That his <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/24/123630/542/hotels/Andre_Balazs_Dark_Secret_Wine">promised wine</a>, a rosé produced near his <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Beach+Hotel/local/342">Sunset Beach Hotel</a></b> on Shelter Island, is ready for mass consumption, and that he collects vintage nude photographs. Also of note is his acquisition of Jean Prouvé's <i>La Maison Tropicale</i>, a modular design by the famous architect JetSetCD 2009-02-19T11:58:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/19/14737/752 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/eva_longoria2.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> We hear <b>Eva Longoria</b> threw quite the tantrum at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Chateau+Marmont/local/174"><b>Chateau Marmont</b></a> the other night. It all went down when Longoria ran into <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Posh%20Spice">Victoria Beckham</a> and started pulling up chairs for her and her posse to sit with Posh. <p> The LA hotel, always the center of celebrity meltdowns and public displays of egomania, seems to disdain the free publicity it gets from its visitors. It kicked <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Lindsay%20Lohan">Lindsay Lohan</a> out after she lived there for a year, banned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/britney%20spears">Britney Spears</a> for rubbing a plate of food in her own face, and sometimes denies Ms. Beckham for tipping off the paparazzi about her dinner plans. <p>This time, the hostess had had enough. She told Eva, ced138 2007-11-20T09:00:01-05:00 34.098274 -118.36770 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/