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St. Regis Aspen’s 40-Million Facelift
In a renovation worthy of, and inspired by, business magnate and St. Regis founder Jacob Astor, award-winning architect and interior designer Lauren Rottet gave the 13-year-old hotel a Gilded Age overhaul. “When I do a hotel, I think of it more as set design,” says Rottet, whose work also includes the Surrey Hotel in Manhattan. “I write a script in my head, complete with characters, and I start making sets for those characters to play off of.” In this case, she imagined a grand Aspen retreat for the Astor family and 179-guest-rooms-worth of their closest friends.
April 2012
“I really wanted it to feel summer and winter-appropriate and like
someone’s personal grand manor. I kind of envisioned the Astors as they
had been back then and how they would have lived today. How they would
have wanted unusual antique pieces mixed with more contemporary pieces.”
April 2012
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