Ace Hotel Works With Color!

From Frame Magazine:
"At the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, white walls have been abandoned in favour of colourful rooms that promise to effect the guests' experience and emotions.
Five identical rooms at the hotel were repainted in three different colour combinations.
Five journalists visited the hotel, each saying in a different room for one night to experience the various hues.
While their reactions were all different, they generally felt less confronted - and more comfortable - with the colours than had originally been expected."
Bravo, looks great.

Ace Hotel In NYC

An article in Metropolis Magazine profiles Roman & Williams—the noms de guerre of the husband- and-wife designers Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, the design team responsible for the Ace Hotel's look in New York.
Says Metropolis:
"To build out the hotel, Alesch and Standefer brought a truck up to the antiques markets in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and paid cash on the spot for furnishings—with no warranties on anything, only the expectation that the hotel would repair things themselves.
An apothecary cabinet was refinished in high-gloss oil paint and installed behind the reception desk. A giant table became the centerpiece of the grand lobby, which feels like an old public library with walls blackened by lamp soot.
In one corner, the designers installed a 45-foot stretch of wood paneling re-claimed from a Park Avenue apartment. They left the support bracing clearly visible—making it more like a movie set than an artifact.
The Ace is carved out of the old Breslin Hotel, and they seem to welcome the ghosts (along with a few remaining long-term residents). “It’s something we always try to get into our work,” Alesch says. “It’s not completely finished. It’s not like a museum. It has holes in it. It’s very human.”

Bravo, we like!
Read whole article HERE