Sex+Design Magazine

Let’s Get Busy Here – Crosby Street Hotel

By Erin Feher

I am so over sleeping on couches. I don’t care how good the party is, how old the friends are or how cozy the cushions.  I’ve spent more than enough nights sharing a three-foot-wide hunk of ultra-suede with a string of past crushes, clinging to the romantic notion of body heat as my bare feet poke out from beneath a cat-hair-covered throw.

So maybe it’s no surprise that I’ve grown into a serious hotel girl. And not just a king-sized bed and soaking tub kinda hotel girl—my hotels gotta make me squeal with design delight. No two rooms the same, bold wallpaper, custom light-fixtures, head-scratching art, perfectly curated vintage accessories….

My next trip is to NYC, and while the hotels may be pricey, the cost seems perfectly fair considering I don’t have a single friend who has managed to move-on-up to an apartment with a guest room (the ones whose own beds aren’t crammed between their sofa and their stove have made it big).

So I’m heading straight over to SoHo, where between Prince, Spring and Lafayette Streets I will find the Crosby Street Hotel. This is the first US property for Firmdale, a UK-based boutique hotel operator with six unbelievably stylish hotels in London. Headed by husband and wife Tim and Kit Kemp (adorable? Yes), wife Kit has quite an eye for design and outfits all the hotels herself.

The rooms, lobby, restaurant and bar are each decked out with details that will more than make up for all those nights of couch surfing.

For more design-to-die-for hotels around the globe, check out the brand new 2010 edition of The Design Hotels Book. Don’t leave home without it.

Design, Interiors, Main