More Details Emerge On New York's Upcoming Baccarat Hotel, Set To Open in 2014

August 8, 2012 at 10:52 AM | by ASchechter | Comments (0)

It looks like things are finally moving along on one of Manhattan's next big hotel openings: Baccarat Hotel, the enigmatic hotel-atop-Donnell-Library that we've been hearing on and off about for literally five years.

Originally scheduled to become an Orient-Express, the property is now definitely going to be a Baccarat, and it's definitely going to be ritzy.

Per a recent write-up on The Real Deal, we're to expect garden terraces "blinged out with crystal," an on-site Baccarat crystal shop, and interiors designed by Gilles et Boissier, the guys responsible for Chelsea's opulent Buddakan restaurant.

Underneath the hotel will be a newly-renovated four-story Donnell Library Center, the facade of which is shown in the photo above. In the inset, you can see the updated rendering of the entire library/hotel/condo complex.

Perhaps the most disappointing part of the whole thing is that the 140-room hotel, which will occupy floors four through twelve, will sit at the bottom half of the 45-story building, below a set of 64 luxury condos. So for the best Central Park views, you're better off riding the elevator up the building and knocking on a resident's door (or maybe just hightailing it to the nearby Mandarin Oriental).

As we reported before, the hotel, when it opens in 2014, will be super feng shui, and, as Starwood Capital's CEO describes it, "sensuous, luxurious and discreet."

Just like a library.

[Photo: Michael Minn; inset, Baccarat Hotels]

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