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Kulek gave us a tour of the hotel showing off the guestrooms, the mouth-watering dinner options at Asia de Cuba and the SkyBar. Wanna know how to get past the velvet rope? Watch the tour in living color in our video above.

The way Kulek sees it, he wants the Mondrian to be a personal playground for guests during their stay. Everything in the hotel was designed to create an interaction between the guest and the hotel. For instance, up in the guestrooms, which were renovated about a year and a half ago, the swiveling TV/mirrors are meant to convey an "Alice in Wonderland" feeling where as Kulek says, the guest is "always the star of the show."

Throughout the hotel there are more of these playful touches including the light boxes near the guest floor elevators and the giant orange brain shape in the lobby. (True story: the brain was actually held for ransom once. The hotel managed to get it back without any blood being shed.)

The hotel also prides itself on having a sort of "it" factor which can be attributed to having the same DNA as Morgans Hotel, the original boutique hotel which Ian Schrager opened in New York in 1984 and is the flagship hotel of Morgans Hotel Group.

While both Schrager and Morgans designer Philippe Starck have moved on to other projects, their influences are still very much alive at the Mondrian. From the good-looking doormen to the hard-to-get-into SkyBar and the sexy guestrooms upstairs, this hotel is like one long night out. Not necessarily a nonstop party, but close. And the hotel is ok with that. In fact, they encourage it.

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