Lifestyle hospitality model Faena debuts in New York City

Lifestyle hospitality model Faena has debuted in New York City with a 120-key lodge designed to immerse visitors into the town’s “creative pulse” via culinary choices, design and artwork, the model introduced Monday.  

From model founder Alan Faena, in addition to guardian lodge firm Accor, Faena New York opened Monday in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, overlooking the High Line. The lodge opening follows others from the Faena model in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Miami Beach, Florida. 

Designed by Faena’s in-house design crew, together with collaborator Peter Mikic, the lodge goals to merge artwork, tradition and neighborhood into “unforgettable experiences,” based on the model. The lodge’s interiors embody “bold patterns and iconic symbolism” intertwined with “the theatrical elegance inspired by old New York glamour,” Faena detailed in a launch. 

The lodge is dwelling to signature restaurant La Boca, providing a menu impressed by lead chef Francis Mallmann’s Patagonian fire-cooking methods and flavors. Carrying Faena’s art-forward theme into the eating idea, La Boca options pop-art murals by Edgardo Gimenez in addition to bespoke chandeliers by artist Alberto Garutti.

The property’s gathering areas additionally embody The Living Room, with two Art Deco-style bars and an out of doors terrace. Meanwhile, opening later this 12 months, the 12,000-square-foot Tierra Santa Healing House will function a hammam, 11 therapy rooms, an infrared sauna and health and motion studios; it’s going to additionally supply South American therapeutic therapies that use indigenous substances and antiaging applied sciences, per Faena. 

Next spring, the Faena Theatre will open on-property, exhibiting “ambitious artistic productions and Faena’s very own highly-acclaimed cabaret performances,” based on the model.  

Faena New York debuts roughly every week after Marriott International opened W New York – Union Square following its $100 million renovation. Other extremely anticipated lodge openings this fall embody Delano Miami Beach.