Morgans
237 Madison Ave. (38th St.) 
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New York, NY 10016
212-686-0300, 800-334-3408 | Reserve Now
 This hotel, which opened originally in the early 1980s, has gotten a recent facelift. Owner Ian Schrager (The Royalton and Miami’s Delano, among trendy others) re-enlisted the hotel’s original designer, Andrée Putman, to freshen up the rooms and public spaces. Putnam went to work with shades of taupe, camel and ivory and such nontraditional hotel fabrics as corduroys, silks and suedes. The lobby doubles as a lounge and is furnished with antique French leather club chairs culled from Paris flea markets. Typical of most new boutiques, the 113 rooms are smallish---the idea being that you’ll spend the bulk of your time in swanky bars and restaurants. But the compact spaces still manage to make room for suede window seats, club chairs and corduroy-covered ottomans. Photographs on the walls were commissioned from the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Stainless steel bathroom sinks are set against muted touches, from Japanese tile to glass mosaics from Venezia. Standard amenities include 27-inch TVs, VCRs, dual-line speaker phones (even in the bathroom), faxes and stocked mini bars. The duplex penthouse has a greenhouse, two terraces, kitchen and multimedia room. Downstairs, Morgans Bar is appointed in leather, lace, mirror, felt and antique furnishings. It attracts a hip, black-clad crowd. The menu of the in-house restaurant, Asia de Cuba, is studded with notoriously great, ethnically inflected dishes, such as lobster-loaded mashed potatoes. |
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