You know Ian Schrager. He made disco rock at Studio 54 and went on to invent the 'design' or 'boutique' hotel that has been ripped off by virtually every hotelier from Birmingham to Boston. Without Schrager, there would be no lobby 'scene', no go-to bars, no signature scents, no hot staff and cool nightclubs, no baffling taps in the bathrooms. Hotels would still be full of swags and ruffles.
At 65, with millions in the bank, a new wife, young son, and a box-fresh 8,500 sq ft, threelevel, $50m John Pawson-designed penthouse in New York, you might think he would hang up his mood boards. Not a bit of it. Schrager is working harder than ever. Which is why on one of those Chicago days that is so hot even your shins seem to sweat, he finds himself rearranging planets in the Pump Room restaurant at the former Ambassador East hotel on the banks of Lake Michigan. 'We call this The Universe. It's just arrived from Milan and I love it,' he grins.
The lighting installation that Schrager is assembling – 500 ivory-coloured balls suspended from the ceiling – is an apt metaphor for his latest venture. The master tastemaker senses the universe is turning on its axis again, just as it did when the old-fashioned class divisions that ruled New York nightlife were swept away, enabling him to create Studio 54. Or when travellers decided they wanted hotels that lifted their spirits with fun and frolics, opening the way for places like the Morgans, the Royalton and the Paramount in New York, the Delano in Miami, the Clift in San Francisco, the Mondrian in Los Angeles and St Martins Lane and the Sanderson in London.
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