An antique writing table, lighted by a lamp with a fringed shade, cozied up to a window overlooking The Plaza hotel. Its polar opposite, a sleek taupe and white suite, was a sedate Sherry take on modernism. Framed New Yorker covers hung near the Biedermeier-inspired mirror-clad writing desk.
A pair of cushy club chairs faced a plush grey velvet sofa. Hot pink orchids floated in a cut crystal tumbler atop the mirrored dresser in the spacious bedroom. The roomy bathroom reminded me of a tuxedo, clad in black and white marble. In the middle stylistically was an enormous suite that opened with a leopard-print bench in the entry, a hint of the animal motifs to come a painting of gamboling tigers hung over the bed.
In addition to a black and white kitchen with a mirrored backsplash, the suite boasted a fireplace with candles warming up the mantle, a crystal chandelier and two crisp orange club chairs across from the creamy velvet sofa. Free WiFi. Pets allowed. Surroundings: A superb location if you want to be in Midtown.
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Not to mention: David Bowie. Bowie lived in hotels: first the Gramercy Park Hotel, then the Sherry-Netherland until the room-service bill became obscene. The Sherry turns up in a lot of books about Bowie— in one , guitarist Keith Christmas recalls being beckoned there: "[A chauffeur] took me to the Sherry-Netherland, where David was holding court surrounded by freaks, weirdos David Cassidy was sitting on a chair outside. There were some people in other rooms doing mime.
He had a whole bunch of people around him who, I guess, made life interesting for him. This was all in the s, which was more of a rock n' roll era for the hotel and also just Taken during an interview with Cliff Jahr for Rolling Stone. But long before any of these names, there was Louis Sherry , confectioner.
Or was there? Sherry's name is on the hotel, but he didn't really have much to do with it, no matter what the inside of that chocolate box tells you see below —he died in , a year before the hotel opened in Here's what happened: "The 'old' Netherland Hotel, originally built around for William Waldorf Astor, was acquired in by Frederick Brown, 'an operator, [to] be remodeled into stores and apartments.
Here's what I did learn from the hotel, "Mr. Sherry wanted his name on the building, but he realized that incorporating the old name would help to immediately establish the importance of his elegant establishment.
When you enter your room these days, you'll find a tin box of Sherry's chocolates on the table waiting for you. Sherry's chocolates. A little bit of fiction inside the chocolate box. Currently there are apartments that were converted to co-ops in , and 50 hotel rooms and suites. Want to live there? Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York , Dec 16, PM.
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