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Caviar and Squirrels

by Patty Mahlon

Jun 26, 2008

Happy Birthday, GT blogs! I’m happy to have graduated from a “guest blogger” to a Thursday blogger.

Monday night, Alexandra and I made an appearance at the hotel launch party for the SLS Hotel that is scheduled to open in Beverly Hills in Fall 2008. Before I go any further, visit their website! It’s really cool.

The NYC launch party was held at Moss, located in Soho. Moss sells everything from light fixtures and furniture to watches and jewelry. Everything is displayed as an art exhibition, blending retail with art and presentation. Alex and I spotted a stuffed squirrel—yours for the price of $950!

With the opening of the SLS Hotel there will also be the premiere of an innovative retail concept, where the hotel’s public lobby and dining areas (designed by Philip Starck) will have a series of free-standing cases displaying different objects put together by Moss and available for purchase.

On top of the Moss-Starck collaboration, celebrity Chef José Andrés will create the food and beverage program for SLS Hotel. José Andrés made an appearance at the hotel launch, hand-feeding the guests caviar wrapped in proscuitto. Sounds like some sort of strange, Top Chef fantasy, right? I mean, I couldn’t think of a better way to meet a star chef than to be hand-fed by one!

So between the Moss-Starck retail concept and a menu created by José Andrés, I would say I am looking forward to the opening of SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I’ll be having the caviar Tapa and that stuffed squirrel displayed in the corner, please!”

– Courtney Centeno, account executive

 

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