The lobby and public space of the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City are a vivid and operatic feast of visual tension and art — an enlivening mélange of the "new" High Bohemia. Seemingly haphazard combinations of surreal contemporary pieces and centuries-old furnishings create an alternative universe in this 5 star NYC hotel that's like stepping into a 3-D painting — a classical vocabulary transformed into an edgy new language.
Epic canvases dance around richly-textured rooms of rough plaster, Moroccan tiles, hand-woven rugs, and reclaimed lumber. Hand-carved 10' Italian fireplaces and lush red velvet curtains frame otherworldly objects designed by Julian Schnabel. A custom Venetian glass chandelier hangs above surreal lanterns. It is a study in careful contradictions — jazzy but purposeful — an emotional and synergistic balancing act. A style that always dances up to the edge of being too much without ever going over.




