Guardian Weekend

March 2009

“At the Ace Hotel…the idea is that you feel as if you’re staying overnight in your friend’s cool New York pad. The interiors are spare, and decorated almost entirely with salvaged materials to help keep down the carbon footprint. It opened last month in an unfashionable corner of Midtown Manhattan, and Calderwood says he wanted the design to capture the industrial heritage of…the nearby Garment District.”