{"id":363982,"date":"2026-10-04T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363982\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:26:49","slug":"luxury-ocean-liners-inform-new-yorks-kimpton-era-hotel-by-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363982\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury ocean liners inform New York’s Kimpton Era hotel by INC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local architecture studio INC<\/a> has designed each guest room at this hotel<\/a> overlooking New York<\/a>‘s Rockefeller Plaza to emulate “a stateroom on an ocean liner”.<\/p>\n

The 529-key Kimpton Era<\/a> is housed within a purpose-built, 33-storey tower on West 48th Street, just south of the art deco Rockefeller Center complex.<\/p>\n

\"AsThe Kimpton Era’s blackened-steel staircase spirals up through a three-storey fluted atrium<\/p>\n

For the interiors, INC<\/a> pulled in references from New York City itself, blending Uptown elegance and Downtown grit, as well as the compact grandeur of the luxury liners that once docked along the Hudson.<\/p>\n

“Every detail of the Kimpton Era is engineered elegance with a room that feels more like a stateroom on an ocean liner \u2013 compact, crafted, and refined to the luxury of just enough,” said INC partner Adam Rolston.<\/p>\n

\"AThe reception area is anchored by a tiered black-stone counter<\/p>\n

Materials throughout were chosen to reflect the city’s dichotomy, pairing marbles, brass, leather and glazed ceramics with more industrial concrete and blackened steel.<\/p>\n

In a triple-height atrium wrapped in fluted concrete, a blackened steel-and-glass stair coils around a mobile of organic forms that descends from the ceiling.<\/p>\n

\"AThe second-floor brasserie featured panelled walls and mosaic flooring<\/p>\n

Cerused wood, terrazzo borders and diffused lighting define the elevator lobbies, while the tiered black-marble reception counter provides a weighted presence.<\/p>\n

“Inspired by the city itself, the Kimpton Era captures New York’s layered character \u2014 elegant yet gritty, refined yet raw \u2013 woven into a vertical voyage of venues and comfort in a purpose-built skyscraper at the heart of Rockefeller Center,” said INC’s Hillary Kroll.<\/p>\n

\"Terracotta-tonedTerracotta-toned walls and ceramic pendants add texture in the restaurant spanning the ground and cellar levels<\/p>\n

The hotel’s five dining venues include a Latin American eatery with terracotta walls and ceramic pendants that spans from the ground floor to the cellar.<\/p>\n

A second-floor brasserie features banquette seating, panelled walls, a scarlet ceramic bar and mosaic floors, while the third-floor lobby cafe offers coffee in the mornings and cocktails at night.<\/p>\n

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On the roof, a bar references the dining rooms of Chinatown via a tomato-red counter framed by tiled portals, temple-like joinery and hand-painted lotus motifs.<\/p>\n

The Kimpton Era’s guest rooms are designed like compact ship cabins, with each “berth” featuring full white-oak walls that integrate a bed, desk and storage into a single furniture element.<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite oak millwork integrates multiple furniture pieces in the guest rooms<\/p>\n

Neutral colour palettes are offset by jewel-toned fabrics and brass accents, while wet-room-style bathrooms are defined by frosted, blackened metal-framed sliding glass doors that conserve space.<\/p>\n

“[The Kimpton Era] is a self-contained voyage where guest rooms are like staterooms and lounges, and dining rooms unfold like the salons of a great ocean liner in a new expression of New York luxury,” said INC’s Louisa Revitte.<\/p>\n

\"Jewel-tonedJewel-toned fabrics enliven the otherwise neutral rooms<\/p>\n

INC’s previous hotel projects have included the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> with Marvel Architects, and the event spaces at the TWA Hotel<\/a> inside Eero Saarinen’s JFK Airport terminal.<\/p>\n

The studio \u2013 which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year \u2013 has also completed “gritty yet inviting” interiors for a restaurant<\/a> in BIG’s The Spiral skyscraper, and filled its own concrete-forward offices<\/a> with eclectic furniture and plants.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Read McKendree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local architecture studio INC has designed each guest room at this hotel overlooking New York‘s Rockefeller Plaza to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[810,135052,808,3412,9,24,55,54,56,820],"class_list":["post-363982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-hotels","tag-inc-architecture-design","tag-interiors","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}