"You can rent it out for the evening and have a seated dinner for 200," says Schrager, noting that there will be no "scene" at the Roof Club. "We must have looked at fifty side tables, fifty chairs, fifty lamps, fifty drinks cabinets," recalls Schrager, who is famous for complicating the process and threatening the schedule by bringing in, at various stages, what he calls his brain trust, a group of loyal friends—from fashion designer Norma Kamali to celebrity floral designer-cum-party planner Robert Isabell—to whom he perennially looks for opinions, ideas, and reactions, which he uses to help inform his final "edit. "There were some dark periods," he says. "Ian asked me to come over and look at the hotel." As for the particular school of "bohemian" and "edgy" Schrager opted for at the Gramercy Park Hotel, do not think "starving young artist in an East Village tenement. Virtually everywhere your eye travels, in fact, the artist’s touch is in clear view. Up on the 18th floor, there is also the now-under-construction Roof Club, scheduled to open in December." Schnabel also laid down a black-and-white chessboard floor in the lobby, made from nine-by-nine-inch rough-concrete tiles from Morocco. "Then, suddenly, it’s big business, and I’m getting credit because we changed the industry.. "Michael makes the design happen from the practical and construction point of view," Schrager explains.com; doubles from $525. This chair, specially designed by Dutch artist and product designer Maarten Baas, is akin to many of the pieces in Baas’s popular "Smoke" collection.. I’m out of school. (No Trump-style slippery-when-wet polished marble here. To do the design honors for the 150-seat Chinese restaurant, Yau, with Schrager’s enthusiastic support, looked to the young Paris-based husband-and-wife duo of Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier, who, before setting up shop themselves, worked, respectively, in the Paris offices of Philippe Starck ("which gives you the levity," according to Schrager) and Christian Liagre ("which gives you the chic"). There is no more underground.gramercyparkhotel. Very bohemian." But then, that was never a question.. Built in two stages—the first completed in 1925 by architect Robert T. He also had Michael Overington, his head of development, who has been at the hotelier’s side since 1977. "He’s a really creative guy; I would have liked him to do more," says Schrager, who also commissioned from Baas a trio of custom-designed coffee tables for the lobby and a billiard table for one of the bars downstairs. The Gramercy is the first entry in a portfolio they are putting together for the new Ian Schrager Company, which will feature apartment buildings in addition to hotels. These assistants will "work hard to be more personal than the guests’ own personal assistants," Schrager promises, and will supplement an "unparalleled concierge, bellman, and runner staff.not a gallery, not a museum, but a kind of singular, eclectic vision. Ultimately, we have different styles. I thought it should be like going to some crazy rich person’s house and staying in the attic. Schrager is also hard at it on another residential project, this time in Las Vegas, where he is working with esteemed developers the Fisher Brothers on the planning and design of some 10,000 apartments to be deployed over 40 buildings on a 100-acre site. It’s more like the Miss Havisham School of Disrepair. In short, the hotel was overdue for a massive renovation.. Asked how Schnabel took to being "edited" and "reinterpreted," Schrager says, "He was accepting. "Gramercy Park is a wonderful address. Also by Schnabel is the slightly menacing sawtooth chandelier in the adjacent Rose Bar, an area he conceived of as a living room, at least until Schrager brought him up to speed on the kind of Day-of-the-Locust throngs he knew were on their hurried way. "If I don’t work, I’m miserable," says Schrager, who is personally, as well as professionally, on the move.Y.because, in the end, I don’t make the projects, the projects make me." With success came imitators: "Everybody’s doing it now, not only a bunch of little boutique hotels, but the big hotels as well," he says." Not under Schnabel’s purview is the hotel’s main restaurant, Park Chinois, slated to open this month: That is being overseen by Michelin-starred chef Alan Yau, well known for his London restaurants Hakkasan, Wagamama, and Yauatcha. But the place had been run-down for years. "I’m not building some corporate monolith like MGM." Noting that the average room rate is in the $500-per-night vicinity, he adds, "This will compete with the top hotels in New York. "I wanted to set the record straight," he says. This time around, words that better describe Schrager’s $210 million renovation of the formerly 506-room hotel are different, the very antithesis of all that heart-racing hyperbole." In Miami and Miami Beach, Schrager recently purchased two hotels, which he plans to renovate and reopen.. But Schrager persisted in his idea of having Schnabel be hands-on, a true collaborator. Gramercy Park Hotel..; 212/920-3300; www. I was an administrator for the past four or five years, and I was miserable. But the hotelier is determined to change that, and each guest will be offered the services of a personal assistant. So, basically, I said I’d take out the ceiling in the lobby. "I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or make any kind of statement," Schnabel says. Ultimately, Ian is the author. And I’ll be pretty consistent with that way of seeing space. For perhaps the first time, Schrager had acquired a hotel that had the kind of history and provenance that he (rightfully) felt obliged to consider. So what, to Schnabel’s mind, did Schrager want?"What he tried to do was make a place that kind of looked like my house, and I just told him what I would do, and then he sort of did what he wanted.meaning hello flamboyant gestures and grand allusions and chic sensuality; hello regal, overscale furniture and bronze fittings and lush carpets and massive fireplaces and enough red silk velvet to outfit a turn-of-the-20th-century bordello in Paris. Schrager’s previous hotels could be counted on to remain up to the red-hot aesthetic minute, but at the Gramercy he conscientiously steps away from all things trendy.’ So, I got up and walked away with 30 percent" (which he recently sold). I like building—I’m a builder," says Schrager, who incorporated 23 cooperative apartments into the 1930 wing of the hotel, directly overlooking Gramercy Park. Maybe I am a frustrated interior decorator. Standing in the lobby is an exhilarating experience, as you look around and try to get your bearings in the extravagant—in concept, execution, and detail—space that manages to evoke simultaneously Venice, Havana, Barcelona, London, and Paris, as well as Addison Mizner’s Palm Beach, William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon, and several of the sets from Orson Welles’s 1941 Citizen Kane, minus the lonely gloom.) The irregular, imperfect floors help create a highly textured envelope, one that clearly values the look and feel of patina, as opposed to the look and feel of brand-spanking-new. He has been working with them since 1984, when he commissioned photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to provide the art for Morgans’s guest rooms, large-scale black-and-white portraits of flowers signed by the late controversial artist." He would like, in other words, to be known as the man who reinvented the hotel not once, but twice." Color proved to be an especially important part of the design. But over the past decade, the notion of "high-design" hotels has become a given, if not a cliché. And good-bye to everything that ultraprolific Paris-based enfant terrible of design stands for—slick, tongue-in-cheek wit, irony, surrealism, whimsy, and jet-set modernism. I wanted to do something that was an alternative, something personal. At the Palladium—a second nightclub he opened in 1985—he commissioned Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf, among others, to create large-scale installations that capitalized on 80’s pop-culture’s fascination with this small stable of high-flying young artists. Chanel kingpin Karl Lagerfeld bought one early. "I’m going to do my thing out there," he says." For his part, Schnabel says, "I really care about Ian and I wanted him to get what he wanted. It was time to turn the page, and in any event, the Gramercy Park Hotel presented a different mandate than Schrager’s first 10 properties: Morgans, the Royalton, the Paramount, and the Hudson in New York; the Delano and Shore Club in Miami Beach; the Mondrian in Los Angeles; St." Schnabel adds: "It’s a long friendship and it’s a collaboration.
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