The hotel’s tuxedo-like exterior. Shades of gray and plum accents dominate the guest rooms’ updated color palette. Sexy window shades remain a signature design feature of the hotel. bright white, with a black border and accents. “Our update of the hotel’s look was built around the idea of a theatrical and fashionable evening out on the town, and creating an exterior with a tux-like appearance was part of that,” says Robert Edmonds, co-founder of Edmonds + Lee Architecture, which collaborated with Personality Hotels’ president and ceo Yvonne Lembi-Detert in updating the 116-key property. The Union Square boutique is the rst hotel commission for Edmonds + Lee, which had previously specialized in creating high-end homes and condominium complexes in the Bay Area. Lembi-Detert says Cesar Rubio (hotel interiors); Brandon Doran (hotel exterior, Lembi-Detert); Courtesy of Edmonds + Lee (Edmonds) Yvonne Lembi-Detert Robert Edmonds Boutique Design | March+April 2012 15