A first look at Audrey Gelman’s Six Bells Hotel – ryan

The Inn’s Restaurant, The Feathers, which Has A Menu “Roooted in Early-American and Traditional Country Cookery,” Developed by Molly Levine, The Chef-Awner of Westerly Cana.
Art: Greco Deco

The upscale upstate hotel has come to be a blandly, luxuriously uniform thing – interchangeable linens, light fixtures, and décor; An austere Early american aesthetic with a dash of Scandinavian minimalism. Against This Landscape, Audrey Gelman’s Six Bells Country Inn in the hudson Valley is decidedly maximalist. All 11 Guest Rooms Will Have Individual Names, Design Schemes, and Backstories, Which have yet to be revealed, but one assumes they will have something to do with the characters in the fictionlish village of Green that gelman created when she launched her she launched her she launched her Six Bells Shop On Court Street in Brooklyn. “Something that of the Very UNEXPLORED is the Space BetWeen Luxey Hospitality and Theme Hospitality,” Gelman Told Break Wall Street Journal in june. Prepare to explore.

New Renders of the Interiors, Done by Greco Deco (A Design Firm That Also Did the Ned in London), show something Shares a design sensitivity with gelman and her former upstate compound, which itelf was a staging for much of what Sold in Shop – but More. “The Design Process Started With Doses of Out-of-Print Coffee-Table Books About Country- and Folk-Art Design,“ Gelman Wrote in an Email. “We used interior-design references, but Also Movie Stills, Pages from Old Children’s Books, and historical documents from Townscapes and Villages.” She Also, As she Told the JournalMade Dollhouselik miniatures of the Rooms to Map Out The Hotel’s Ethos.

Room Names of Note: The Innkeepers Suite (A King Bed, A Twin Bed Box, Green and Burgundy and Hand-Painted Florals), Lamplight (A King Bed Box, Patterned Wallpaper, Borders, Elaborate Window Dresing Tapestry Hood, Lounge Seating). There are bed boxes (that is, enclosed Beds built into Cabinet-like structures), Canopy Beds, Ruffles, Archival Wallpaper, Elaborate Curtains, Pine Cladding. The website, which JUST LAUNCHED For Booking (Rooms are available beginning June 1, at Rates Starting Around $ 400 A Night), Speaks of “A Color Palette Somewhere Between Sweet Pastels and Melancholia.

Guests Who Are Taken with the Aesthetic of their Rooms Will Be Able to Buy Sheets, Pillows, Quilts, Plates, Lamps, Platters, and Antiques, Gelman Says, Not the Bed Frames or Bed Boxes. But isn’t it inconvenient, we wondered, to have to replace such unique décor? (This Kind of Headache is Why, We Assume, the Rooms at Places Like the Waldorf Astoria All Kind of Look the Same.) But that is part of the interactive inn business as well, she says: “Antique trips are a constant part of the store and hotel, so there are new. up Empty Spaces on the Shelves. ”