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Ian Schrager's Thoughts on Hotels, Design, Life and Bill Marriott
November 19, 2007 at 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
Ultra-tan hotelier Ian Schrager showed up in another for-all-you-executives interview, this time with Portfolio rather than Fortune. What's newly on the mind of the Schrager?
· He's not worried about working with 75-year-old teetotaler Bill Marriott: "I mean, we're complementary, our DNA is alike. We're both competitive and in pursuit of excellence," Ian says.
· He doesn't give too much thought to the brawls at the Gramercy Park Hotel: "The kind of brouhaha that happened--which is really much ado about nothing--I don't think it hurts...I would rather it didn't appear [in Page Six]."
· Even he thinks Miami Hotels are overpriced: "We're working on a hotel in Miami Beach right now, which would be a cheap chic version of what we've done down there before. Because, I think, while everyone is banging their heads against high rates down there at Miami Beach, we've sort of forgotten the market that it got started with."
More of Schrager's wisdom after the jump
