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4. The rooftop bar offers
epic city views thanks to
a wall of windows, while
a dark interior broken
up by blue strips of light
on the floor helps give
guests the feeling of
floating in the clouds.

6. The wood-clad lobby
bar acts as a convivial
coworking space during
the day and a buzzy
hotspot at night, while
soaring floor-to-ceiling
windows bring the
outside in.

5. A nod to Mexican
artist Diego Rivera,
cocktail bar Diego
features a replica of
a colorful mural he
created for Rockefeller
Center-deemed
too communist for
the iconic New York
landmark-but now
serves as a backdrop for
jewel-toned seating.

7. Guestrooms are
designed to feel like
a stateroom on a
transatlantic ocean liner,
with baroque mirrors
juxtaposing reclaimed
wood floors, white oak
wrapping the bed, and
raw concrete ceilings.

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Schrager-approved unexpected touches
abound. A striking tapestry featuring a replica
of a mural by Mexican artist Diego Rivera
"that was supposed to hang in Rockefeller
Center before it was pulled for its communist
overtones," he explains, hangs in cocktail bar
Diego, outfitted in the same jewel tones as
the art piece. While in the nautically inspired
efficient guestrooms, a baroque gold mirror
contrasts the oak and raw concrete interiors for
"a nice surprise," he says.
True to Schrager's MO, guests never need
to leave the property. "It's a microcosm of
the best New York has to offer," and a way
to compete with Airbnb, he says. A grand
entrance walkway cuts through "a mini Central
Park," which was part effect and part solution:
a subway runs under the front of the property,
and by setting the building back, he avoided
the extra approvals needed to build on it. The
ground floor is home to a retail store, as well
as two new concepts from prolific chef JeanGeorges Vongerichten-Louis, a grab-and-go
market, and Kitchen, boasting an open kitchen

8. Louis-part market,
part coffee shop-
features a marble
bar tucked under the
entrance escalator.

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with three white marble tiled ovens and
outdoor garden seating.
Besides Diego, there are three other
watering holes on the property: Public Arts, a
basement multimedia performance space; the
lobby bar, which transforms from a coworking
space during the day to an energetic nightspot
that overlooks the park out front through
soaring floor-to-ceiling windows intentionally
cut back so guests "feel like they're outside,"
says Mergenthaler; and the crowning jewel,
the rooftop bar. The latter is all about the
views: columns are clad in mirrored metal;
there's a wraparound balcony; the all-black
interiors are punctuated with floors embedded
with blue strips of light that mimic the linear
fluorescent ones on the lobby ceiling; and a
wall of windows wraps the space, even behind
the glowing golden bar and in the bathrooms.
"You feel like you are floating in the clouds,"
Schrager says. hd
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Public
New York

Owner 215 Chrystie Management Company
Ian Schrager Company Concept/
Programming/Creative Direction Ian Schrager
Design Architect Herzog & de Meuron,
Basel, Switzerland Executive Architect Beyer
Blinder Belle, New York Design Architect
Project Team Ascan Mergenthaler, Philip

Schmerbeck, Yasmin Kherad, and Jack
Brough Executive Architect Project Team
Carlos Cardoza, Maxwell Pau, and Chris
Boyer Interior Design Firm I.S.C Design
Studio and Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture
(collaborator), New York Interior Design
Project Team I.S.C Design Studio: Kirstin
Bailey, Paul Haslhofer, and Bernadette
Blanc Purchasing Firm Purchasing
Associates
*Designers did not provide sourcing for
furnishings shown.

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