Ian Schrager and John Pawson redefine California luxurious at West Hollywood Version Lodge
Hotelier Ian Schrager has joined forces with British architect and designer John Pawson to create the West Hollywood Version in Los Angeles.
The brand new resort and luxurious residences mark the boutique model’s California debut.
The British architect accomplished the resort’s 140 guestrooms and 50 suites with a relaxing impartial palette that touts whitewashed Siberian Larch wooden and floor-to-ceiling sliding screens.
The pared-back particulars are harking back to the rooms in Schrager’s New York resort Public, designed by Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron.
The constructing can also be dwelling to 20 residences starting from 150 to 600 sq. metres that echo the identical impartial color scheme, full with Molteni kitchens, sliding glass partitions and teak louvered shades.
Whereas Pawson’s design carries his signature minimalism, Schrager’s historically daring color selections manifest as floor-to-ceiling emerald curtains, royal blue velvet seating, and a pool desk with canary-coloured felt.
The doorway was designed “to convey a way of timelessness moderately than a decade-defining aesthetic, making a effective stability between outdated and new,” as described in an announcement from the resort.
A dramatic cell by LA artist Sterling Ruby known as “The Scale” hangs from the lofty ceiling. The piece feedback on the previous grittiness of the Sundown Strip, a focus of LA’s youth and counterculture within the 1960s and 70s.
Extra particularly, a petroleum can that’s a part of the set up nods to the petrol station that occupied the plot previous to the resort’s building.
Yabu Pushelberg designs The Instances Sq. Version as “final counterpoint to its environment”
The Ardor restaurant sits off the foyer space. Wooden accents and potted greenery are omnipresent in the principle room, in addition to within the lush outside terrace obtainable for al fresco eating.
Chef John Fraser helms the signature eatery, which serves an all-organic, vegetable-forward menu to mirror Fraser’s personal California roots with laid again sophistication – a counter to 701West, his stylish restaurant at Schrager’s Instances Sq. Version in New York.
West Hollywood Version’s indoor-outdoor rooftop bar is encased in sliding glass partitions, with panoramic views extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Hollywood Hills and downtown skyline. An open-air rooftop pool might be accessed up a flight of stairs.
The property additionally boasts a basement nightclub known as Sundown, a number of multimedia studios geared up to host occasions and photoshoots, a 24-hour health club and a spa providing “technology-forward remedies that use mild and sound”.
Surrounding the property’s entrance is a lush perimeter of vegetation indigenous to Southern California — 56 species in complete — together with Aleppo Pine, Arbutus and Camphor bushes. The in depth landscaping required 850 tonnes of soil.
The resort is the newest outpost of the Version chain that Schrager launched in partnership with Marriott Worldwide. The hotelier opened Instances Sq. outpost earlier this yr, following others situated in London and Miami.
Schrager typically enlists well-known architects and designers for his initiatives, comparable to Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron, which designed his Public resort in New York, and Yabu Pushelburg, which accomplished the Instances Sq. Version.