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Gothic N Gets High Marks

Where: 132 W 45th Street [map], New York, ny, United States, 10036

The NY Sun goes inside Vikram Chatwal's Night Hotel, a "hautel" phenomenon (hautel=Haute couture + hotel) and comes out loving every bit of it.

Night is probably the best of Mr. Chatwal's New York establishments....[I]t presents to the world a Victorian facade covered in charnel black paint so intense and so thickly applied that it resembles the charred remains of a cremation. To this is added at street level a series of wrought-iron gates and a massive black monolith of a door. Running down the length of the six-story facade is a taffeta banner emblazoned with a single Gothic "N," which covers most of the windows.

The article goes on to heap more praise on the black and white decor throughout the lobby and rooms (of which only one was not "occupied") and even on the dismal room view of an airshaft through a window that didn't open. (In the reporter's mind it enhanced "a sense of modish entombment that the designer may have been seeking.")

Ugh, the last thing we want to do when visit a hotel is feel even more trapped let alone look out at a dirty airshaft. But luckily for Vikram, someone can appreciate his long-awaited trilogy-completing "masterpiece."

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