Start spreading the news: luxury hotel brand Aman announced that they’re opening their first hotel in New York City and you’re definitely going to want to be a part of it. You just have to wait until 2020.
Aman hotels are synonymous with the kind super luxury that prefers to whisper rather than wave about. Whether you’re putting your feet up at the Amanpuri in Phuket or cooling your heels at the Amangiri Canyon Point, you can count on a calm sense of zen to be included in your room rate.
But adding nuance to New York is no easy feat, so how does a hotel group recreate that same air of tranquility in the city that never sleeps?
They enlist the talents of award-winning architect and designer Jean-Michel Gathy (mastermind behind the Chedi Muscat and Setai Miami Beach).
In typical NY style, Gathy capitalises on the hotel’s prime real estate, creating a low-lit but 83-room high-rise “urban sanctuary” on 22 floors in the famous Crown Building on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue.
It’ll be a place where guests can sip their morning lattes while lapping up priceless views of Central Park and enjoy easy access to the bustle of Midtown, then unwind after a long day’s hustle on the hotels 10th floor terrace.
Aman are as famous for their amenities as they are for their sleek design and nestled high above the rush they’ll have two spa houses, a sauna, treatment rooms, steam rooms and a 25-metre pool surrounded by glowing fire pits.
And if they do actually decide to sleep, they’ll do it in 800 square-foot wide rooms (bigger than most New Yorkers apartments) with the sound of a working crackling fireplace to soothe the sound of street traffic from their ears.
Aman’s New York hotel will also contain their first “urban residences”, with 20 private apartments on the upper floors, topped off with a five-story penthouse that comes complete with indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a terrace with a bird’s eye view of Manhattan.
Rate haven’t yet been released but Bloomberg rumours that residences will start at cool $US5.9 million and the penthouse will probably be listed for at least $US100 million.
Sooo… slightly more than Airbnb.
