Lombardy Hotel
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The Lombardy Hotel located at 111 East 56th Street (between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue in New York City. Built in the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, silent film star Marion Davies, The Lombardy has been the New York residence of glamorous film stars like Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Currently, the building still feels like a grand New York apartment house. The apartments are individually owned and decorated co-ops, mostly by wealthy non-US citizens, which like to keep a comfortable an extremely well located pied-a-terre in mid-town Manhattan.…
While you get the full spectrum of hotel services, you also have the luxury of apartment living. The white-gloved staff and management are what you would expect from an old world hotel. It was completely renovated in 1996 at which time the front lobby was decorated by Robert Denning and where Denning & Fourcade maintained their offices. Several years earlier Denning had redecorated the restaurant with his signature arm lamps with fringed shades and numerous reproduction paintings made from his own originals, housed in his apartments in Manhattan and Paris.
There are 45 one-bedroom suites, with marble bathrooms and entrances, and some studios available in addition to the apartments where the owners are in permanent residence.
