Owings & Merrill and then at DMJM Rottet before she went out completely on her own as Rottet Studio. (The Surrey is the first project completed by her Houston-based firm's New York satellite office.) christian louboutin
Her work at the Surrey began outside, where she replaced the typical green canvas awnings with black ones, plus a canopy in black-painted metal-framed glass. That change required lobbying the local landmarks commission. "Everyone told me I wouldn't be able to convince them," Rottet says. "But I did." Right inside, her reinvention of the lobby involved reconfiguring it to make room for the Boulud-run Bar Pleiades. christian louboutin shoes She also stripped out the cracked pinkish marble walls and the worn terrazzo flooring. The terrazzo has now been replaced by a marble-tile mosaic that mimics the pattern of an oriental rug as sketched by Rottet.
A fine-arts major before switching over to architecture, she relied heavily on her drawing background throughout the hotel-her whimsical handiwork is everywhere. christian shoes A window-seat cushion in the presidential suite boasts some of her own handwritten poetry, while a chaise longue nearby features text on the origins of the Manhattan cocktail in addition to a recipe. For the front of the reception desk, she created star patterns that a leatherworker in Montana transformed into panels. "I told him not to go cowboy on me," she says with a laugh. The word infatuation is scrawled, graffitilike, across the silver-leafed front of a highboy in the lobby. louboutin shoes In the adjacent Bar Pleiades, she had scribbled numerals painted on the back of the stools and a poem called "Central Park, 1974" woven into the carpet in block letters.
Her work at the Surrey began outside, where she replaced the typical green canvas awnings with black ones, plus a canopy in black-painted metal-framed glass. That change required lobbying the local landmarks commission. "Everyone told me I wouldn't be able to convince them," Rottet says. "But I did." Right inside, her reinvention of the lobby involved reconfiguring it to make room for the Boulud-run Bar Pleiades. christian louboutin shoes She also stripped out the cracked pinkish marble walls and the worn terrazzo flooring. The terrazzo has now been replaced by a marble-tile mosaic that mimics the pattern of an oriental rug as sketched by Rottet.
A fine-arts major before switching over to architecture, she relied heavily on her drawing background throughout the hotel-her whimsical handiwork is everywhere. christian shoes A window-seat cushion in the presidential suite boasts some of her own handwritten poetry, while a chaise longue nearby features text on the origins of the Manhattan cocktail in addition to a recipe. For the front of the reception desk, she created star patterns that a leatherworker in Montana transformed into panels. "I told him not to go cowboy on me," she says with a laugh. The word infatuation is scrawled, graffitilike, across the silver-leafed front of a highboy in the lobby. louboutin shoes In the adjacent Bar Pleiades, she had scribbled numerals painted on the back of the stools and a poem called "Central Park, 1974" woven into the carpet in block letters.
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