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The inn crowd: Visit these 8 hotels owned bynotable New YorkersMay 11, 2015 | 6:52pm
By Andrew Sessa
Some of New York’s boldest-faced names lead semi-secret double lives. In addition to their dayjobs as restaurateurs and record executives, actors and artists, interior designers and intrepidentrepreneurs, they moonlight as haute hoteliers, owning — and sometimes even operating —chic stays around the globe. Here, we’ve rounded up 8 of our favorites.
Bedford Post Inn
Bedford, New York
"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" star Richard Gere.Photo: Dave Allocca/Starpix
When you’ve got a Golden Globe and have enjoyed the adoration of an adoring public fordecades, opening a country-house hotel hardly seems like next on the agenda.
But that’s exactly what Westchester resident and Hollywood A-lister Richard Gere did in 2009,launching this eight-room stay in a historic 18th-century home he’d saved from demolition twoyears prior.
Together with his co-owner and fellow local Russell Hernandez, Gere recently turned over theRelais & Châteaux property’s restaurant to chef Michael White’s Altamarea Group, whichlaunched the local, seasonal Italian eatery Campagna there last fall.
(From $395; bedfordpostinn.com)
Hotel Tivoli
Tivoli, New York
Photo: Altamarea Group
Having long had a country house in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Tivoli, blue-chip artist BriceMarden and his wife, painter Helen Marden — who already own Golden Rock Inn ($180;goldenrocknevis.com), in Nevis — reopened the town’s former Madalin hotel as this 10-roomspot last summer.
They updated its old-timey B&B look completely, hanging their own artwork as well as those oftheir famous friends like Robert Rauschenberg, arranging well-chosen vintage andcontemporary furniture and painting the moldings in a particular gray color mixed by Bricehimself.
Photo: Ingalls Photography
Helen and Brice Marden.Photo: PATRICK MCMULLAN
Additional temptations include the Corner, a locavore-friendly restaurant seating 100.
(From $240; hoteltivoli.org)
Nihiwatu Resort
Sumba, Indonesia
In 2012, entrepreneur Christopher Burch — ex-Mr. Tory and founder of the now-defunct retailerC. Wonder — acquired this 580-acre surf sanctuary, which perches on the largely un-touristedIndonesian island of Sumba, 250 miles south of Bali.
Photo: Nihiwatu
He’s continued to donate its profits to a local community-supporting foundation, while alsoadding 11 new wood-and-thatch villas.
That brings the total to 32, allowing that many more surf-centric guests to partake ofNihiwatu’s killer break.
Also killer? The views of the 1½-mile-long beach and the Indian Ocean beyond from everyvilla, each of which has its own pool. (From $900 per person; nihiwatu.com)
Playa Grande Beach Club
Río San Juan, Dominican Republic
Christopher Burch, left.Photo: Nicholas Hunt / PatrickMcMullan.com
With this nine-villa haven, which she opened last year, interior designer Celerie Kemble bringsher quirky-cool, tradition-with-a-twist aesthetic to a stretch of white-sand beach on the DR’snorth coast, where she and her money-manager husband, Boykin Curry, have vacationed foryears.
Kemble has expertly played with a Dominican Victorian look for the resort’s homey-feelingone- and three-bedroom bungalows and central clubhouse, plus pool and tennis court.
It’s all part of a lushly tropical, 2,000-acre development — co-owned by the Kemble-Boykins
Photo: Stephanie Smith
Celerie Kemble.Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/PatrickMcmullan.com
and a group of their high-profile friends that includes Mariska Hargitay, Richard Meier andCharlie Rose — where an Amanresort is also expected soon.
(From $800; playagrandebeachclub.com)
Tribal Hotel
Granada, Nicaragua
Jean-Marc Houmard, the man behind some of Manhattan’s most scene-setting restaurants,Indochine and Acme among them, opened this seven-room stay last May, partnering with hischildhood friend Yvan Cussigh to add some global-nomad style to a colonial town on the shoresof Lake Nicaragua.
Photo: Tribal Hotel
Designing every eclectic element of the place themselves — from mid-century modern-inspiredfurnishings crafted by local artisans to a pool whose mosaics reference the sidewalks frontingRio’s Copacabana Beach — the duo created a comfortable, casual, indoor-outdoor hangout thatfeels like a private home, the kind of place the Beautiful People who score seats at Houmard’srestaurants would want to spend spring break.
(From $125; tribal-hotel.com)
W South Beach
Miami Beach, Florida
Jean-Marc Houmard.Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/PatrickMcmullan.com
A petite boutique hotel it’s not, but this 350-room, see-and-be-seen surfside Starwood stay,which opened in 2009, does hold plenty of well-pedigreed personal touches that owe theirprovenance to David Edelstein and Aby Rosen, the real estate tycoons who own it.
Chief among these?
The hotel’s art, which features rotating displays of top-drawer contemporary works from itsowners’ extensive private collections.
The latest reveal, which launched in time for Basel Week in December, celebrates the Pop art ofthe 1980s, with particular focus on Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Photo: Courtesy of W South Beach Hotel & Residences
Photo: Paul Bruinooge /PatrickMcMullan.com
(From $549; wsouthbeach.com)
Geejam Hotel & Recording Studio
Port Antonio, Jamaica
It took record producer Jon Baker nearly 20 years to turn his Caribbean property near Jamaica’srelatively quiet northeast coast — long known to jet-setters looking for an under-the-radarescape — into the chic retreat it is today.
He opened its rustic-luxe cabins, suites and three-bedroom villa only a few years ago, launchingthe sister 13-villa waterfront Trident Hotel in 2013, and he’s adding even more now: cabins atGeejam and a new set of Geejam Collection villas near the hotels.
The properties have attracted such Hollywood royalty as Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson, aswell as top music stars including Katy Perry and John Legend, who have even cut tracks at itstop-quality recording studios. (From $425; geejam.com, and from $625,tridentportantonio.com)
Photo: Geejam Hotel
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Hotel Esencia
Riviera Maya, Mexico
“If you want the best beach resort in the world, you need to start with the best beach,” saysEmmy-winning producer and media magnate Kevin Wendle of Esencia, which sits on 50 jungledacres just north of Tulum.
He bought the decade-old spot last summer, after falling for its beach and overallMediterranean aesthetic, which reminded him of LA’s Hotel Bel Air.
Wendle has since retooled Esencia’s public spaces, two pools and 29 rooms, suites and villas;now, modernist furnishings by the likes of Charlotte Perriand and works by such famed artistsas Picasso and Botero abound. (From $585; hotelesencia.com)
Photo: Esencia
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