An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel,
whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious
history of this landmark. Jackson Pollock, Robert Mapplethorpe,
Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Arthur C.
Clarke, Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Janis Joplin, Eugene
O'Neill, Rufus Wainwright, Betsey Johnson, R. Crumb, Thomas Wolfe,
Jasper Johns - these are just a few of the figures who at one time
occupied one of the most alluring and storied residences ever: the
Chelsea Hotel. Born during the Gilded Age and once the tallest
building in New York, the twelve-story landmark has long been a
magnet for artists, writers, musicians, and cultural provocateurs
of all stripes. In this book, photographer Colin Miller and writer
Ray Mock intimately portray the enduring bohemian spirit of the
Chelsea Hotel through interviews with nearly two dozen current
residents and richly detailed photographs of their unique spaces.
As documented in Miller's abundant photographs, these apartments
project the quirky decorating sensibilities of urban aesthetes who
largely work in film, theater, and the visual arts, resulting in
deliriously ornamental spaces with a kitschy edge. Weathering the
overall homogenization of New York and the rapid transformation of
the hotel itself - amid recent ownership changeovers and tenant
lawsuits - residents remain in about seventy apartments while the
rest of the units are converted to rentals (and revert to a
hotel-stay basis, which had ceased in 2011). For the community of
artists and intellectuals who remain, the uncertain status of the
hotel is just another stage in a roller-coaster history. A
fascinating portrait of a strand of resilient bohemian New Yorkers
and their creative, deeply idiosyncratic homes, Hotel Chelsea is a
rich visual and narrative document of a cultural destination as
complicated as it is mythical.
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