ABOUT LAST NIGHT | The Kids Are All Right
Premiere Party at Smyth
The Kids Are All Right, the talk of Sundance this year,
hits theatres this Friday. Quintessentially and Eternity Calvin
Klein toasted the cast, including Ju...
06 JUL 2010
TORONTO - VIRGIN TERRITORY
Out There | Richard Branson and his fleet land
in Toronto.
Last week Sir Richard Branson enlisted The Governator, Drake and
Thompson Toronto to help launch Virgin America's first
International flight to Toronto. The celebrati...
29 JUN 2010
INTERROGATOR - SIMON SPURR
The rockin' fashion designer holds forth on carrots,
bath mats, Obama, and rose-gold Rolexes.
Name your poison, and why?
A beer. It's an honest drink for an honest man. I grew up trawling
the local pubs in my small village of B...
29 JUN 2010
PRINCE OF THE HOLLYWOOD ROOSEVELT
HOLLYWOOD | For two weeks, the Purple One took
over our legendary hotel, and…
…here's a look at how maid service fixed up his penthouse
digs. We approved-though they weren't exactly un-regal already when
he arrived--but the m...
28 JUN 2010
LONDON DIARY: BELGRAVIA
When Belgraves, the next addition to Thompson
Hotels opens on Chesham Place in London's Belgravia next year, it
will be the latest lustrous addition to a much-beloved district
that has always been one of the storied city's go-to locales.
Bordered b...
21 APR 2010
INTERROGATOR - MICK ROCK
The iconic Rock and Roll photographer holds forth on feral cats,
his stripper name and the well known person he looks up to.
Name your poison, and why?
Coffee after a yoga session or massage. It puts a little edge back
on...
12 APR 2010
INTERIOR MOTIVES - JIM WALROD
From hotels to homes, restaurants to retail, the design
visionary who imagined Wall Street's Gild Hall and the Lower East
Side's Thompson LES - holds forth on Arabic doors, radio nurses,
the Coca-Cola bottle, and why Elaine's is more than just that
literary dr...
08 APR 2010
LA DIVE BARS
The top 10 Finest Holes in the Wall (in no particular
order), from Inglewood to Cypress Park.
Now you could do Ye Coach & Horses, The Dime, or The Roger
Room. But here, we spread our bat-wings for more destination
drop-ins, ...
07 APR 2010
ABOUT LAST NIGHT - TOASTING MICHEL GONDRY
Michel Gondry and friends celebrate the release of THE
THORN IN MY HEART at Thompson LES
In the documentary - Michel Gondry chronicles the life of family
matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her
son. It ...
06 APR 2010
INTERROGATOR - WALTER KIRN
The acclaimed author of Up in the Air and Thumbsucker-as well as
last year's memoir Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of
an Overachiever and countless magazine stories-holds forth on
fishnets and dolphins, dining with Greta Garbo and the menu for his
...
01 APR 2010
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
WHERE WE'RE CALLING FROM...
An Introduction to Thompson Hotel's new website ROOM 100
Blog.
When we set about creating a website and blog for our
sophisticated, world-traveling guests, and other like-minded
nomads, we kne...
On The Record
A COUPLE OF BAD-BOY RENAISSANCE MEN FROM WILDLY DIFFERENT GENERATIONS—DEEJAY-TURNEDPRODUCER AND GRAMMY WINNER MARK RONSON AND PUNK AVATAR AND STYLE SVENGALI
MALCOLM McLAREN—ARE NOT AS DIFFERENT AS YOU MAY THINK. FOR ONE, THEY ARE MAD AS HELL AND THEY’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. BUT THEY SURE ARE FUNNY, TOO, AND DEAD-ON ABOUT THE STATE OF MUSIC, THE RECORD BUSINESS, AND THE LACK OF RADIO PLAY FOR NEW BANDS THAT MATTER IN THE STATES. HEAR THEM BICKER. IT'S A DELIGHT.
Guy Bourdin is considered one of the best known photographers of fashion and advertising of the second half of the 20th century. A selection of Bourdin’s sensual, provocative photographs are featured in the mod guestrooms at 6 Columbus.
Photographer Lee Friedlander has captured America’s social landscape since the late 1940s. Friedlander’s photographs from his Apples and Olives series are illuminated in the headboards that hang over each bed at Thompson LES
Ryan Mcginness' art is full of icons, signs and corporate logos, and yet the communication seems to have collapsed in a dense structure of visual languages. Ryan Mcginness has been called a new Warholian pop iconographer. He challenges the borders between popular illustration and high art. He adapts imagery from graffiti, tags, ads and other visual vocabularies. His motives are stylised and the arabesques are well organised in calligraphic flows and tattoo-like patterns. It is a language of public signage and contemporary iconography articulated trough colourful compositions and layered collages, where information is being transformed into geometric abstraction. His Chain Reactions series hangs in the Thompson LES Penthouse.
NEW YORK’S A GO-GO, AND L.A.’S FINE. BUT WASHINGTON, D.C. REMAINS ONE OF THE BEST KEPT SECRETS
FOR MUSICAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION, FROM HARDCORE PUNK TO, WELL, ‘GO GO.’
Steven Alan’s eponymous line of classic American sportswear —think British tailoring mixed with collegiate style— was a perfect match for Gild Hall, the modern interpretation of a British Gentleman’s Club mixed with the mystique of mid-century Ivy League Secret Societies.
