NEW YORK
The New York Palace, a luxury midtown hotel, has begun the first phase of a $120 million redesign with a $25 million makeover of its elegant Towers accommodations. The New York Palace has employed two design firms to assist in this renovation: San Francisco-based design firm BAMO ; who will redesign The Towers' 176 guest rooms and suites as well as the new private reception experience; and New York-based design firm BBG-BBGM , who is renovating two of the hotel's triplex suites and the new Metropolitan Suite.
The Towers is a separate and distinct part of The New York Palace, occupying the hotel's top 14 floors. With a private reception area, accessible from the main lobby, The Towers come complete with a dedicated Les Clefs d'Or concierge team, exclusively for The Towers guests. Elevators transport guests to floors 41 through 53, which house upscale accommodations with skyline views.
The private entranceway to The Towers lobby will expand in size and boast style upgrades, such as art deco screens and warm lighting. Elements of the lobby design will also harken back to the Villard Mansion design, with classical 19th century patterns echoing through the design of the rich brown carpeting and ceiling.
Other highlights include the addition of rainshowers in many of the rooms, repurposed wood features over guestroom doors and valances, and sliding partition doors in The Tower Executive suites.
In addition to a rejuvenated look and feel, rooms in The Towers will also receive a technological and sustainability facelift, including Crestron touch-screen user interfaces that control all of the room's high-tech features, easily accessible electrical outlets, automated roman shades and blackout privacy curtains, iPod docking stations, television systems that can synch with computers or even personal Netflix accounts.
The Towers transformation will unfold in stages so as not to disrupt the guest experience. The rooms and suites are scheduled for completion in June 2013, with The Towers Lobby shortly following.
