Happy Monday friends !
Today we’re diving into a little corner of history with a look at some wild decor from the residents of the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Now if you don’t know, this place is legendary. Built in 1883, it’s been home to some of the biggest artists ever :
Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell, Mick Jagger, to name a few. Within the hotel’s walls, Jack Kerouac feverishly typed On the Road, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke dreamed up 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Miloš Forman penned his screenplay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, supposedly basing the asylum on the wild assortment of artists roaming the floors. Warhol used it as a symbol, Leonard Cohen wrote about it, and Dylan Thomas and Nancy Spungen died there.
And while the 21st century hasn’t been kind to this artistic landmark – it’s had a sad fate of renovations and general loss of soul –
I’ve had my eye on a delicious book released in 2019 called Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven,
cataloging the homes of residents still living the artist life and dreaming things up in those hallowed halls.
(A documentary about the construction produced by Martin Scorcese also came out this year and looks promising)
So let’s peek inside these old-school, and genuine maximalist sanctuaries, and let these occupants’ style tell you all about them 💕
Tony Notarberardino
Man Lai
Steve Willis
Colleen Weinstein
And the incomparable Susanne Bartsch
Obviously you will not be surprised to learn I have a certain extra fondness for Susanne Bartsch’s apartment,
first of all the woman is fabulous, but that broken-mirror-disco-ball wall treatment has been on my “forever obsessed” list for years,
and I do love her crazy, purple and red, hand-painted hallway 🤗
What about you, what’s your Chelsea Hotel vibe ?
— Marie
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