Morgans Hotel

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See also: Morgans Hotel (disambiguation)

Morgans Hotel is a boutique hotel located on Madison Avenue, New York City, USA. Owned by Morgans Hotel Group, this was the first property in the group and opened in 1984. The hotel was designed by Andrée Putman.

[edit] Design features

The Asia de Cuba restaurant, that serves a blend of Asian and Latin cuisine, is under the direction of restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow.
Guest rooms have specially commissioned black and white photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.

New design features are evident throughout Morgans' public spaces. A sampling of these features includes:

A "Living-Room" Lobby, with textured taupe-colored glass walls with overlaid bronze mullions, featuring a custom Putman-designed wool rug of black, rich camel and taupe in a bold three-dimensional cubist pattern; floors in three varied shades of imported Italian granite in different finishes; groupings of antique French leather club chairs, including a teak and caned plantation chair from the '40s, all culled from Paris' top flea markets; Putman-designed dark wood end tables. Spherical-shaped desk lamps in nickel-plated brass are created by Felix Aublet in 1925. Candles in the evening coupled with black-and-white checkerboard patterned wool throws loosely draped over the French club chairs further accentuate the "lived-in" feel.

Descending the stairs is the newly redesigned Morgans Bar. The inspired collision of influences – from widely different times and places – is one of the things that makes Morgans Bar unique: from the rough-hewn brick foundation walls, poured concrete floors and metal girders that are original to the 1920’s building, to the shimmering copper chain mail curtains, etched Venetian mirrors, Louis XV style furniture and crystal chandeliers, to the 21st century fabrics, fiber optically lighted tables and music.

The original Asia de Cuba, serving a blend of Asian and Latin cuisine, is under the direction of Jeffrey Chodorow, whose Asia de Cuba outposts in LA’s Mondrian, St Martins Lane in London and San Francisco’s Clift.

[edit] Guest Accommodations

Like everything else in Morgans, the 113 guest rooms steered away from formulaic institutional design. To update guest lodgings, Ms. Putman began in the hotel corridors, which are covered in wool carpet in rich taupe with a black-and-white checkerboard patterned border. Guest room doors are of French custom-birdseye maple. With only four to eight rooms per floor, each hallway contributes to the hotel’s residential feel.

Inside the room, the walls are painted with a mixture of four muted tones, producing an effect like that of an "Impressionist wall painting" — an unusual backdrop for the specially commissioned black and white photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. In addition to a regular closet, each room features a four-drawer dresser cabinet with full-length lighted wardrobe mirror.

Inside the bathroom, unconventional features include customized stainless steel airplane-like sinks and hospital fixtures, floor-to-ceiling shower doors and partitions in 3/4" glass and poured -in-lace granite floors. Other features include a two-line phone, hair dryer, and amenities by Agua Bathhouse.

Morgans’ duplex penthouse suite is a 19th-floor suite that comes complete with its own greenhouse, kitchen, multimedia room with 60" Sony color television, curved staircase and two terraces with city views. Decorated in the same spirit as all Morgans' guest rooms, the suite offers a classic black wood bench by Bertola; and Ecart steel tube and opaline glass coffee tables.