Halcyon Days Hotel

If walls had ears, this property would have heard some of the juiciest gossip of the last two decades. And if they could write, it’d probably have penned a hefty kiss-and-tell bestseller.
Alas, since walls can do neither, we’ll just have to imagine the crazy antics that took place inside this cornerstone of pop culture history.

For this ordinary [...]

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Bachelorette In Black

Other people’s homes: always interesting, aren’t they? Following on from Joss’s post below about a very pink house in New York, here’s a video from style magazine dwell about a very black apartment in the same city.
It’s owned by Cindy Gallop, an international advertising consultant.
Cindy, who has enough shoes to put Imelda Marcos to shame, [...]

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Sting In The Tale

A recent photo-feature in the NY Daily News focused on 15 Central Park West, an extremely exclusive residential block overlooking the park.
It does look quite magnificent, in that ultra-swanky, elegant way that New York skyscrapers possess despite their magnitude.
But I’m more captivated by the residents of 15 CPW.  Well, one current resident, one wannabe, and [...]

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