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Posh Hotels Inspire Lush Interior DecorNot so long ago, high-end hotel rooms seemed to come in two flavors: blandly tasteful or, thanks to hotelier Ian Schrager and designer Philippe Starck, surreal and cutting-edge.
But these days, hotels seeking crucial repeat business are focusing on comfort and high style that's neither off-putting nor cookie-cutter.
To lure moneyed guests used to the very best, the idea is to create hotel rooms "equal to or better than what they have at home," says Cheryl Rowley, the Beverly Hills designer responsible for a lively makeover of the rooms at Philadelphia's Four Seasons Hotel.
She has given them contemporary touches mixed with a Federal look, featuring a rich palette of faded tomato red, celery green, butter, charcoal and chocolate.
For the rest of us, hotels have become design exemplars.
Hotel chains have forged a lucrative new business selling room furnishings, from bedding to lamps, to guests eager to capture some of that luxe style.
But re-creating a posh-hotel feeling takes a whole lot more than just buying the right pillow-top mattress from the Four Seasons, a goose-down quilt from the Ritz-Carlton or crisp white sheets from the Westin, top hotel designers say.
Sure, a great bed, high-thread-count linens, European featherbeds and the blissful sleep such things promise are key to most fine
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