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Hot Openings: Life Hotel opens in former Life Mag space

Developer David Mitchell and hospitality vet Stephen Hanson have opened the first-ever Life Hotel in the original building that once housed LIFE magazine. 

Bathroom into guest room at Life Hotel
Bathroom into guest room at Life Hotel

First commissioned by Carrère and Hastings in 1895, the building was updated via designer Tara Oxley, who restored the property’s wood moldings and original marble flooring.

Guest room
Guest room

The 98 rooms all have high ceilings, wood floors with exposed concrete, airy white walls and original molding. Both Mitchell and Hanson are art collectors and commissioned New York City artists to create nearly 200 pieces of original art for the guest rooms, with photos from Australian fine art photographer Steven Laxton throughout the hotel’s corridors.

Exterior
Exterior

Life Hotel features a lobby bar and lounge, with an 18-seat stone bar that initially will be open for hotel guests only serving wine, beer and light bites in the afternoons and evenings and acting as the continental breakfast area for guests in the morning. Soon after launch, the lobby bar will be open to the public (with a full bar), and the hotel will open Life Restaurant on the ground floor with New York-based Chef Michael Vignola (previously of Strip House, Aquavit, and The Modern).

Additionally, the hotel will add a basement bar in a nod to the space’s history, as Life staffers were rumored to have used the basement as a bar during prohibition.

Bathroom
Bathroom

Amenities include industry-grade wi-fi, Google Chrome Casting, all-natural and socially conscious bath products, access to a fitness facility outfitted with state-of-the-art stationary bikes, and a pet-friendly policy. 

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