Morgans Hotel is a boutique hotel located on Madison Avenue, New York City, USA. Owned by Morgans Hotel Group, this was the first property in the group and opened in 1984. Andrée Putman served as interior designer for the 1984 renovation of this 1927 structure.^[1]

Design features[link]

New design features are evident throughout Morgans' public spaces. A sampling of these features includes:

A "Living-Room" Lobby, with textured taupe-colored glass walls with overlaid bronze mullions, featuring a custom Putman-designed wool rug of black, rich camel and taupe in a bold three-dimensional cubist pattern; floors in three varied shades of imported Italian granite in different finishes; groupings of antique French leather club chairs, including a teak and caned plantation chair from the '40s, all culled from Paris' top flea markets; Putman-designed dark wood end tables. Spherical-shaped desk lamps in nickel-plated brass are created by Félix Aublet in 1925. Candles in the evening coupled with black-and-white checkerboard patterned wool throws loosely draped over the French club chairs further accentuate the "lived-in" feel.

Downstairs is the redesigned Morgans Bar. It combines influences from different times and places. Brick foundation walls, poured concrete floors and metal girders that are original to the 1920’s building, copper chain mail curtains, etched Venetian mirrors, Louis XV style furniture and crystal chandeliers, 21st century fabrics, fiber optically lighted tables and music.

The Asia de Cuba restaurant serves a blend of Asian and Latin cuisine, and is under the direction of restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow.

Guest Accommodations[link]

Like everything else in Morgans, the 114 guest rooms steered away from formulaic institutional design. To update guest lodgings, Ms. Putman began in the hotel corridors, which are covered in wool carpet in rich taupe with a black-and-white checkerboard patterned border. Guest room doors are of French custom-birdseye maple. With only four to eight rooms per floor, each hallway contributes to the hotel’s residential feel.

Inside the room, the walls are painted with a mixture of four muted tones, producing an effect like that of an "Impressionist wall painting" — an unusual backdrop for the specially commissioned black and white photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. In addition to a regular closet, each room features a four-drawer dresser cabinet with full-length lighted wardrobe mirror.

Inside the bathroom, unconventional features include customized stainless steel airplane-like sinks and hospital fixtures, floor-to-ceiling shower doors and partitions in 3/4" glass and poured -in-lace granite floors.

Morgans’ duplex penthouse suite is a 19th-floor suite that comes complete with its own greenhouse, kitchen, multimedia room with 60" Sony color television, curved staircase and two terraces with city views. Decorated in the same spirit as all Morgans' guest rooms, the suite offers a classic black wood bench by Bertola; and Ecart steel tube and opaline glass coffee tables.

Building history[link]

Morgans Hotel began as the Hotel Duane, a 1927 structure intended for long-term residents, designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas. According to an article of the era, "In design the exterior of the building indicates a free interpretation of the Italian Romanesque style harmonizing very well with the Fraternity Clubs building at the north, designed in a similar style."^[2] When initially opened, the lobby and guest rooms showed "a rather free interpretation of Spanish Renaissance decoration."^[2]

Prior to its 1984 renovation, the hotel had operated under the name, Executive Hotel.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• New York Hotels - Morgans Hotel (flash-only site)

Coordinates: 40°44′59.3″N 73°58′52.3″W / 40.749806°N 73.981194°W / 40.749806; -73.981194

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Morgan O. Reynolds is a former professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX.

He served as chief economist for the United States Department of Labor during 2001–2002, George W. Bush's first term. In 2005, he gained public attention as the first prominent government official to publicly claim that 9/11 was an inside job, and is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Some 9/11 conspiracy theorists have expressed concern over Reynolds' theory that commercial jets were not involved in the WTC attacks. Reynolds responded to his critics[3] at his website.

Reynolds is the author of Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America (New York: Universe Books, 1984 e-book), a critique of labor unions in the United States. In the book, Reynolds blames labor unions for exacerbating unemployment and inflation.

Reynolds is also the author of the book Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1987), a book which advocates greatly reducing the level of labor regulation. In the book, Reynolds argues that labor unions have special legal privileges and immunities that ought to be revoked, and that labor unions have generally had a negative economic impact on the United States. Reynolds also offers evidence to support the claim that minimum wage laws exacerbate unemployment.

For W.H. Hutt: An Economist For the Long Run (Chicago: Regnery Books, 1986), a festschrift in honor of W.H. Hutt, Reynolds contributed an essay and served as editor.

In March 2007, Reynolds filed a Request For Correction (RFC) with NIST citing his belief that real commercial jets (Boeings) did not hit the WTC towers and making claims of faulty physics in NIST's computer animations of planes impacting the WTC Twin Towers on 9/11. Reynolds is one of three filers of RFCs to NIST who filed together, including Judy Wood. All three are represented by attorney Jerry Leaphart. NIST responded to the claims and rejected them.^[1][2] Another group also filed a Request For Correction with NIST and cited the Reynolds RFC as "a nonsense submission," which was "likely to undermine the legitimate work of others" and to "inoculate people against any other legitimate challenges to the NIST Report."^[3]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• NoMoreGames.net – Morgan Reynolds' personal website.
• The "Patriots and 9/11" Trap - "former" government officials who say that real planes didn't hit the WTC towers.
• 9/11: Cold Case: A former Bush-appointed official is calling for a new, independent, scientific investigation into 9/11
• A Critical Review of Morgan Reynolds' "Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse?"
• "Discrediting By Association: Undermining the Case for Patriots Who Question 9/11"

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