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Morgans Hotel Group (MHG) is a hospitality company that owns & operates boutique hotels as well as acquiring and redeveloping in the United States and Europe.

MHG owns or partially owns and manages twelve hotels in Boston, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London comprising over 3,000 rooms. Each of its owned hotels was acquired and renovated by the Morgans Hotel Group and was designed by a world−renowned designer. The company is generally credited with inventing the Boutique Hotel in 1984 when it opened Morgans Hotel in New York.

History[link]

Founded "the first boutique hotel" - Morgans Hotel in 1984.

In February 2006, Morgans Hotel Group had their IPO. [1]

On May 11, 2006, a definitive agreement was signed to purchase the Hard Rock Hotel from Peter Morton for $770 million. As part of the deal, the company has the rights to use the Hard Rock name for hotels and casinos in the Western United States and certain other territories. Also, 23 acres (9.3 ha) of land for expansion as well as the Hard Rock Cafe on the corner of Harmon and Paradise.

The company most recently opened Ames in Boston in 2009.

The company will open its fourth New York hotel and third Mondrian in February 2011.

MHG Hotels[link]

• New York
  • Morgans Hotel- style designed by Andree Putman
  • Royalton Hotel- style designed by Phillipe Starck
  • Hudson Hotel
  • Mondrian Hotel

• South Beach
  • Delano Hotel
  • Shore Club Hotel
  • Mondrian Hotel- style designed by Marcel Wanders

• Los Angeles
  • Mondrian Hotel-style designed by Benjamin Noriega Oritz

• San Francisco
  • Clift

• London
  • St Martins Lane Hotel
  • Sanderson Hotel

• Boston
  • Ames Hotel

References[link]

External links[link]

• Morgans Hotel Group
• Interview with VP of Design Mari Balestrazzi

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)

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