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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 had stayed there, just coincidentally, four or five times before
getting the commission. The hotel was nice and the building was nice,
but when I got to the room, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness’ because it was
not traditional and it was not contemporary. It was somewhat in-between.
What they call transitional. It wasn’t what you would expect either from
Aspen or a St. Regis. So I really spent a lot of times in the room. I
wanted to make them as magical as when you’re sent to a guest suite in a
grand manor.”
April 2012
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