Original title: It costs $15,000 to stay in a blank room for one night, and the stars are still snapping it up. What are the rich thinking?
Author: MISS
This is the most expensive hotel in new york, but the decoration looks so "poor"? There is a hotel in Greenwich Street, new york. Its red brick wall looks just like the surrounding buildings, but it is besieged by paparazzi all the year round. Obama raised more than 500,000 US dollars for the election here, and Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise, Blake Lively, jennifer lopez and other big-name stars regard this place as their second home.
Greenwich Hotel is a member of Liding World. It is not only expensive, but also quite different from the general Lidingshi Hotel. The top suite in the hotel is almost a embryo room, which not only costs 15 thousand dollars a night, but also is difficult to book all the year round. Generally, people who can live in this room are not small players.
This blank room is called TriBeCa loft suite. To say its greatest achievement, it should be that it has set off a wave of silence. After Mr. Kanye and kim kardashian lived together, they invited a co-designer to spend $20 million to renovate their luxurious house into a plain cement house, which is simpler than minimalism and colder than sexual indifference.
Contemporary people’s aesthetics began to pay attention to removing complexity and simplifying, and now it has become the mainstream to follow the aesthetic culture of "at the beginning of everything, the road is simple".
This room tells you what "the worse you get, the richer you get"
This suite is on the top floor of the hotel, with an area of about 632 square meters, of which 260 square meters is indoor and 372 square meters is outdoor space. There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living room, kitchen and fireplace. There are two outdoor open-air gardens, a barbecue area and a warm water spa pool.
Deep to light gray, brown and white are the keynote colors of the whole space, and the clean layout provides a display position for a large number of artworks. This is not so much a guest room as an exhibition hall. Most furniture and works of art are antiques collected by designers from all over the world, and the cheapest piece of art is worth 3 thousand dollars.
The wind of silence is a Zen concept, which holds that true beauty is defective, incomplete and temporary, and will disappear like life. Poor things, such as a table with rough workmanship or a happy-burning tea bowl, reflect this concept.
Stone, old wood, ceramics, linen products and rattan products, which are more simple and return to the original state, are common elements in the lonely wind. The seemingly random stone fireplace is actually carved with reference to the architectural structure of the Louvre. The iron grate is made of joist hangers used in the original structure of the Louvre Museum.
From the ceiling, beams to doors, to corridor panels, the wood in the whole hotel can be traced back to various periods. The boards on the ceiling are remnants of the civil war that were salvaged from the nearby farmers’ market. The wood of the headboard was originally a walnut desktop in the 19th century.
Bathtubs and double basin sinks are made of stone sinks in the 17th century. On the outer layer, you can see the traces left by the weathering of stones over time, while the interior is smoothed. Therefore, the real lonely wind is not just posed casually with these elements, but is actually quite particular about selection and design.
In addition to works of art that have a history, designers will deliberately make old ones. He ordered some furniture, the most special one being the bronze handle. It was cast according to the grip marks on his hand, leaving a personal mark unconsciously.
Walking out, it is a private double-deck terrace with a special roof, overlooking the Hudson River from the lush garden. Copper gourd chandelier is hung on the pergola frame surrounded by wisteria, which is reconstructed from the original copper roof material of the building.
There is also an outdoor wood-burning fireplace in the garden, which can accommodate 18 people.
There are countless luxury hotels in new york, but it’s easy to find one with a swimming pool. Greenwich Hotel is one of them. The swimming pool also overflows with silent aesthetics. It is surrounded by a fence of a 250-year-old Japanese farmhouse. The farmhouse was assembled by a Japanese craftsman. No nail was used in the whole process, but it was fixed by ancient knotting techniques. Now there are only three people left in Japan who know this knot-tying technique. Retaining time and remembering the past is a feeling that can often be felt in the aesthetics of silence.
Indulge in the highest realm of old things
This suite makes the rich fall in love with the lonely wind and makes the designer more known. He is Axel Vervoordt, the great god of interior design in Belgium. As mentioned earlier, the designer who renovated Kanye’s mansion is him. Before providing design solutions for the rich, he also rebuilt a 16th century castle and a dilapidated brewery.
However, whenever labeling him, he is reluctant to admit that he is a designer, but prefers to call himself a collector and curator. At the age of 21, he bought a surrealist painter rene magritte’s painting La mémoire in 1948 for $2,400, and later sold it at a high price of $50,000. Since then, he has been active in the field of art purchase and collection with a unique aesthetic vision, and his love and interest have become a lifelong career.
Vervoordt fell in love with it when he was collecting antique furniture in Asia in the 1970s, and since then it has been vigorously promoted in the West.
For this kind of purism, Vervoordt prefers to define his own style as "rural minimalism". He opposes too many useless pretenses, removes the redundant parts and keeps the most essential ones.
At that time, the hotel owner invited Axel Vervoordt to design this top loft suite immediately after seeing Wabi Inspirations written by him.
Oscar winner+hotel madman+senior diners = Robert De Niro
The recent popularity of The Irishman has brought Robert De Niro, the best actor, back into our sight. He also has an identity-a real hotel madman. Yes, the Greenwich Hotel is his.
Before the establishment of Greenwich Hotel, as a veteran diner, he found Michelin chef Matsuhisa Shinsuke, and the two hit it off and founded the brand NOBU, which integrates food and hotels, and now there are ten in the world.
Recently, they opened a resort hotel Nobu Hotel Los Cabos in Mexico. MISS introduced it just a week ago. Friends who want to try NOBU restaurant can go to JW Marriott Hotel in Beijing first, which has the only NOBU restaurant in China at present.
The old man’s love for the hotel can be said to be passionate. After the operation of Greenwich Hotel, he announced that he would open The Wellington Hotel in Covent Garden, London, with 83 rooms, a spa and two restaurants. It was originally planned to start construction in 2017 and open in 2019 if approved by the government.
It will also open a 2373-acre resort in Antigua and Barbuda, a Central American island country between the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean, and build 77 water houses, a spa and four restaurants.
However, among these hotels, the Greenwich Hotel is the one that De Niro put the most effort into. Tribeca 10013, where the hotel is located, was once the most expensive postal area in the United States. De Niro’s love for this neighborhood has accumulated for a long time. First, he opened a restaurant here, The Tribeca Grill, then he opened his own film production company next door and finally opened the Greenwich Hotel.
De Niro was born into an artist’s family in new york. His parents divorced at the age of two, and he lived with his mother in Greenwich Village. There are many paintings in the public area of the hotel belonging to De Niro’s father. It can be said that this hotel has many spiritual sustenance for him.
The basic room type also starts from 5780 yuan.
Greenwich Hotel has 88 rooms and suites, but each room is different.
Not to mention the Tribeca loft suite with a price of $15,000 a night, the basic room type is RMB 5,780. It’s not cheap to carry a piece of furniture alone, such as beds of Swedish royal brand Duxiana, hand-woven Tibetan silk carpets and British leather benches.
There are also many attractions in public areas. The songkhla and marble floor in the lobby were inspired by the 14th century Italian palace. An Italian family business copied this style and molded each tile by hand.
In honor of his father, De Niro decorated his abstract paintings in the hotel.
The Locanda Verde restaurant serves Italian food all day. The ceiling is made of 90,000 corks collected by the Canadian Girl Guides and a stone named Goshen Schist, which has a history of more than 400 million years and can only be found in two quarries in Massachusetts and Peru.
Architecturally, the hotel is just around the corner of the street, but De Niro hopes that the corner can be slightly rounded. So he asked David Rockwell to customize a double-decker window, which smoothed out the sharpness. Make this corner also a punch point.
