The Commercial Observer gets on the horn with hotelier Ian Schrager to talk shop, and he relays some intriguing details about Marriott's takeover of the Madison Avenue Clock Tower. First, if you work with a giant public entity like Marriott, you can't really talk about it. Though you can, apparently, tell a pink paper that your design inspiration is the interiors of The Dakota: "Not Gothic, like the outside architecture, but more the inside, with the rich woods, and the proportions, and the way that all works." [NYO; previously]
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