HotelChatter - Tag: Philippe Starck

Miami Beach: Showering at SLS South Beach Will Make You Pretty in Pink

MsRebecca — 2012-02-02T11:00:01-05:00

With the opening of The SLS Hotel at South Beach coming up in April, we're officially in stalking mode.

Don't worry, we're not creeping around the construction site, a bunch of roses and unrequited love notes in hand. But we are checking out the hotel's website and Facebook page religiously, anxiously awaiting any new crumb of a detail or sneak peek of what's to come in one of the most anticipated hotels of the year.

This week, our devotion was rewarded: look at the pretty-in-pink renderings of the guest bathrooms that were just posted!

Miami Beach: 'Something Lovely's Starting': SLS South Beach Will Finally Open in April 2012

juliana — 2011-11-02T14:46:16-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/slssobeguestroom.jpg" class="top"> It's finally official--the long awaited <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+SLS+Hotel+at+South+Beach/local/4744">SLS South Beach</a> will open in April 2012! This will mark the second SLS Hotel to open after the flagship one in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+SLS+at+Beverly+Hills/local/1098">Los Angeles</a> and hotelier <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/sam nazarian">Sam Nazarian</a> is pulling out all the stops, combining pretty much all of his restaurant and nightclub hotspots under one roof.First off, the hotel will feature room designs from SLS hotel designer <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Philippe Starck">Philippe Starck</a>. While we only have that above rendering to go on, the rooms still retain the airy and effervescent quality of the SLS in LA but this looks a little, how do we say this?--cozier? There are no "floating" glass beds and cramped low ceilings, although

Miami Beach: We Take a Design Nerd Stroll Through The Delano

MsRebecca — 2011-08-31T12:30:01-05:00

Since it opened in 1994, the Delano Hotel has defined what it means to be a chic, South Beach boutique hotel.

Next year, its creative guru Philippe Starck will give the beach a new vision, with his work on SLS South Beach--mere steps away from the hotel that started it all. But can he top the ground-breaking work he produced for Ian Schrager at Delano?

After we took an 'ethos tour' with Delano GM Steven Hiblum, who pointed out the little quirks we'd missed on previous strolls through the lobby, and told us all about Starck's inspiration for his designs, we're not sure he can.

Los Angeles: José Andrés Deconstructs Tea Time at The SLS Hotel

juliana — 2010-10-15T14:47:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/teatimeatSLS.JPG" class="top"> One of the things we were always torn about with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+SLS+at+Beverly+Hills/local/1098">SLS Hotel</a> in Los Angeles is that only guests were allowed inside the lobby area. All other visitors were directed through to a separate entrance--where the award-winning Bazaar Restaurant from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/jose andres">José Andrés</a> is located. While we liked that the SLS offered guests privacy in the lobby area, we were also a bit hurt because the lobby is not just a check-in spot with a couple of couches and tables but a place where guests could dine and drink amongst the interior design of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/philippe starck">Philippe Starck.</a> It looks and feels unlike most hotel lobbies, more like a swank private club than a

Paris: Le Royal Monceau in Paris Will Reopen on October 20 with a 'Starck' New Look

juliab — 2010-09-27T14:44:55-05:00

Mon dieu, ces hotels Parisiens are going in for ze refurb at ze moment, non? If it’s not the Hotel Athenee or the Marais Bastille, it’s the Royal Monceau, which has been closed since June 2008 and is due to reopen on October 20.

Why have the works taken so long? Because, Mesdames et messieurs, they’ve been conducted by prolific hotel designer Philippe Starck no less. And because, to start the renovations, he threw a "demolition party" and invited his guests to destroy whatever they could destroy of the hotel.