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warwick
> To distill the essence of Jane Russell-Marilyn Monroe's buxom
brunette counterpart-into a New York hotel suite, Stephanie EllisCarmody, principal at Seattle-based Interior Design International,
thought of abstract nudes, a '50s-era maillot framed as art behind a
gilded frame, a lavishly appointed four-poster bed, and a sophisticated
palette of gold and black.
The result is the Jane, one of five new signature suites at the
Warwick hotel centered on William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper
mogul who built the hotel and entertained Hollywood royalty there.
"I saw an image of Jane and Marilyn wearing these wonderful
yellow teddies and the color just popped, so I thought that would be
a fun place to start," she says. "Then I thought about the artwork and
furnishings she would select-that it would all have feline curves and
speak to a feminine sensibility." In Randolph, on the other hand, EllisCarmody went with a masculine navy scheme, accented by Classicalstyle paintings and architectural drawings.
Palm tree motifs and greens enliven the streamlined black and
white elegance of Marion, named for Marion Davies, Hearst's starlet
mistress. Other suites include Follies (as in Ziegfeld, the troupe that
once counted Marion as a leggy member), shot through with girly
purple-pink boas and pearls extravagance; and Modern Art, which

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offers a nod to the nearby museum of the same name with a neutral
palette punctuated by original modern works.
The firm put back in Art Deco-era details like wainscoting befitting
the glamour they were after, Ellis-Carmody says. "That, combined
with a strong element of gold in the suites, made sure that there was a
thread unifying each of them," she adds. "They each have a very strong
personality, but we wanted to make sure that there was some continuity
as well."

the royal palms
shufﬂeboard club
> While a shuffleboard club seems more retirement home than
Brooklyn, Jonathan Schnapp and Ashley Albert rekindled their love
of the game-after a trip to St. Petersburg reminded Schnapp of his
childhood spent playing with his grandparents in Florida-and opened
the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Gowanus, Brooklyn this
past February.
"When you peek through the window, you're not sure what you're
looking at," says Gachot Studios co-founder Christine Gachot of the
former 17,000-square-foot warehouse. "Did they install swimming pools
in there?" They are in fact the 10 bright blue regulation shuffleboard
courts that span the space, created with the help of contractor
Greenlight Construction Management and a professional shuffleboard
court painter flown in from St. Petersburg. Designers chose an updated
color palette and stenciled phrases from the game along the sides of the
courts. "Typically they're green," the designer says, "and ultimately the
blue was a reference that felt more modern."
Gachot outfitted the rest of the space with black and white cabanas
and shuffleboard memorabilia collected by the owners, referencing the
past, but updated for a New York community. "We had to be careful,"
Gachot explains. "It couldn't err on really kitsch or contrived, but you
wanted to certainly celebrate and highlight some of the old thoughts
from Florida and give a twist on it."

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