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Private Club Goes Public. The dismissive door women at the private club Soho House in New York City will have to find it in their heart to welcome even you. The exclusive hotel has joined the hotel group Utell Hotels & Resorts, and now its 24 rooms, roof deck pool, library bar and games room are open to the public. Rooms start...
...Wall Street Journal to your door. But if you still want to savor the smell of newsprint, you can ask for the papers at check-in (or set your preferences online, if you're a Marriott rewards member). By doing away with the automatic paper delivery, the hotel expects to save on 18 million papers a year...
...Hotel Spies? It may be a while, if ever, before you get to book a room at Hilton's new luxury Denizen brand. Starwood, the parent company of the W, St. Regis and Westin brands, is suing Hilton Hotels and its global luxury brand head, Ross Klein - who was also the former head of luxury brands at Starwood - for corporate espionage, contending that Klein stole proprietary company documents from Starwood and used them to help launch Hilton's new brand in just 9 months, instead of the usual three to five years. According to Starwood, it received boxes of Starwood...
Ilse Crawford works out of her studio in London. Recently, though, she's been a regular visitor to Stockholm, thanks to a string of projects there. She designed two restaurants in the city's Grand Hotel for the chef Mathias Dahlgren. She also collaborated with a local lighting company, Wastberg, on a low-energy lamp that Design Within Reach unveiled in February. Now she's converting an old house in the financial district into a luxury bed-and-breakfast, slated to open next year. This should give her an opportunity to hit some of her favorite spots around town...
...RESTAURANTS Bakfickan A small food bar behind the opera house. Jakobs Torg 12 (08-676-58-00; operakallaren.se) Mathias Dahlgren, Grand Hotel Stockholm Partly because we designed it. Also because Mathias is such an extraordinary cook. Sodra Blasieholmshamnen 6 (08-679-35-84; mathiasdahlgren.com) Den Gyldene Freden One of the oldest restaurants in Stockholm. It's rather severe but great. Oster-langgatan 51 (08-24-97-60; gyldenefreden.se...