The Fragrance Library, tucked away and open only to guests, showcases 120 of the over 500 perfumes they’ve collected over the years, including some from their own brand. The room feels like a cross between the Moulin Rouge and the Ringling brothers (if you want to try your hand at the circus arts, there are silk ropes for that too).Īnd for extra play Roytberg and Glazman have included their own Maker room hidden in the hotel. They illuminate equipment both ultra-modern and retro: a 1910 pommel horse, 1940s gymnastic rings, a 1930s speed ball for boxing. Vintage sconces, repurposed from a 1970s-era Polish bank, resemble curled biceps.

Glazman’s devotion to good lighting extends to areas you wouldn’t expect-like the Maker Gymnasium, an amenity for hotel guests that’s also open to the public through memberships. “If you remove it from the space it feels like something is out of balance.” Have an old-timey workout at the Maker Gymnasium | Photo courtesy of The Maker “It’s magnificent because it pulls the whole space together,” he says. Glazman explains that it’s from Morocco, all made by hand, and has a name: the Falcon. It is gold and winged like a bird, with multiple perforations for light to stream through. When I visit I’m particularly enamored with a large lamp that stands out in the greenery-filled, glasshouse-like interior restaurant. “Lamps are a very functional art-you get lighting out of it, but it also creates an ambiance in the room. “I’m literally obsessed with lighting,” he says. The couple’s aesthetic imprint is everywhere, from the textured wallpaper-all designed by Roytberg-to the overabundance of lamps and light fixtures, all hand-picked by Glazman.

Some sixty percent of the furniture at the Maker was purchased locally (for your own Hudson shopping itinerary, Glazman recommends Finch, Regan & Smith Antiques, and Arenskjold). I don’t know about you, but I prefer my coffee with cream and sugar only.To decorate their first hotel, Glazman and Roytberg scoured auctions and antique houses. On TikTok, creators have posted videos of hotel coffee pots, opening the lid to the chamber and revealing questionable debris and gunk. And generally, flight attendants and former hotel employees advise guests to get their morning cup of joe with breakfast, order room service, or bring their own. “I can’t imagine anyone actually doing it.” But there have long been whispers on the internet that coffee pots are used as “miniature underwear washing machines,” as one anonymous commenter on Reddit puts it. “This may be an urban legend,” the flight attendant writing this week’s Receipt admits about the pantyhose horror story. “I’m unafraid as long as the coffee maker looks clean.” I know we’ve all done some pretty desperate things while traveling, but… the coffee pot? I’ve certainly defaulted to using the one in my hotel room in the past (you sing and dance your heart out at ABBA Voyage and tell me how you feel the next morning), but I deeply regret my choice now. “Many senior mamas like to tell horror stories about in-room coffee pots being used to rinse pantyhose, among other things,” a flight attendant writes in her food and travel diary for this week’s edition of The Receipt on Bon Appétit. Flight attendants see and put up with a lot on the road and at 30,000 feet above sea level, which means they have plenty of wisdom to offer about travel-including, apparently, why you should avoid using the coffee pot in your hotel room.Īccording to many flight attendants, your hotel coffee pot might have been used for more than just brewing coffee.

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