HOTEL REVIEW THE BOWERY THE BOWERY HOTEL REVIEW
WORDS BY JULIET KINSMAN PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF THE BOWERY HOTEL
THE BOWERY
NEW YORK
Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson, the hoteliers behind The Maritime and The Lafayette, have brought boho-chic to skid
row with their latest opening in New York’s East Village.
alking into the dark-and-sexy reception the times. Gone is the skid row music club, instead and accents, the end product is one that elicits a
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of this white-hot 135-room addition to occupied by rock-star-beloved designer John Varvatos. passionate response from all visitors – what Brits
the hotel scene in the hippest of New The new kid on the block is the New Museum of might call a Marmite love-it-or-hate-it reaction. Black
York ‘hoods the East Village, it’s hard to believe The Contemporary Art, an indication of just how fashion- ceiling fans, pretty Mexican tiling and faux-nicotine-
Bowery hasn’t always been a part of the very fabric forward and culturally significant this Lower East Side stained lamps lend a colonial air with Gangs of New
of this most-colourful quarter of Manhattan. Not section of the city is today. York-reminiscent painted murals packing an extra
bad for a property that was once part gas station / Don’t be deceived by The Bowery’s hand-carved punch. The barely lit, louche sitting room with its
parking lot and part dormitories for NYU. Created wood panelling, heavy beams and iron chandeliers olive- and sienna-hued sofas, hand-picked by Goode
and designed by the hoteliers behind The Maritime in its lobby lounge, or the top-hatted red-jacketted and MacPherson, and roaring open fires unexpectedly
hotel but without the chrome, sharp edges and cutesy doormen – the livery which provides the logo for the give way to a bottle-filled snug bar at the back and
porthole accents, Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson hotel and a doff of the cap to the Bowery’s raffish also a cute bamboo and ivy framed brick-wall, tiled
have conjured up old-school chic for this bohemian reputation of old. This is a 19th-century-inspired floored terrace with modern wicker-style seats and
retreat. Around the corner from where that birthplace destination decked out to cater to 21st-century tables and rust-coloured cushions.
of punk, CBGBs, once stood, that too is a sign of sybarites’ wildest whims. A clever blend of eras Follow the monochrome mosaic flooring from
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