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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
“One of the senior designers in my office likes to collect etchings and
drawings and things. I went over to his house one day and we went
through his collection and then we blew these prints up. When you sit in
here you really feel like you are surrounded by the mountains.”
April 2012
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