Philippe Starck Dismayed at Royalton Lobby Redesign
Last week, designer Philippe Starck got a glimpse of the new Royalton hotel lobby (above), the $17.5 million Roman and Williams redesign of his beloved original, according to The New York Daily News. He was not impressed. According to NYDN‘s Ben Widdicombe:
Thursday night, after checking in under his own name, the designer and a pal did a 360-degree loop around the restaurant Brasserie 44. And he was visibly upset, says an eyewitness.
“He pointed various things out and gestured his dislike that they had changed,” says our snitch.
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