That idea to bring the city into the hotel will also play out in service. If you are here for only one day, and you are in meetings the majority of the time, I want you to be able to stay on property and not feel like you are missing any part of New Orleans.” I was thinking a lot about the business traveler. We will use the highest quality ingredients we can find, to execute them at a perfect level. The concept at Chandelier Bar to take every New Orleans classic and strip it down to its purest form. “We have so many classics invented here,” Ktiri says, “and we want to honor those recipes. The cocktails come courtesy of a program devised by Hadi Ktiri, formerly of Arnaud’s and Couvant in the city, who will also give input to the menus of the property’s three other bar concepts and room service. The physical, u-shaped bar will have 22 seats, with ample room for locals and guests to stroll up and sip. Guests arrive at the aforementioned Chandelier Bar, right in the center of the lobby, with the show-stopping art installation, where 15,000 pendeloque and almond-shaped crystals are illuminated, each sourced from the Czech Republic. The luxury suites will encompass 2,400-plus feet of living space.Īt every turn, there is the Four Seasons reputation for exceptional service, counterbalanced with the tastes, sounds, emotions, and culture so intrinsic to New Orleans. The 341-room, 92-residence property will be decorated in local, commissioned artwork, with white shiplap walls in the rooms, river and city views, stocked custom minibars, and Carrara marble bathrooms. The $500-million transformation, overseen by CambridgeSeven, has certainly added polish. It was designed by acclaimed modernist architect Edward Durell Stone, whose work also included the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Radio City Music Hall, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Just steps from the French Quarter, in the Central Business District, the World Trade Center building dates back to 1968, debuting to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city. Set to open later this summer, this Four Seasons property will be the city’s first-ever resort hotel, located in the historic World Trade Center right on the bank of the Mississippi River. It’s that Four Seasons iconic welcome outside, but for New Orleans––to walk into a lobby, where there is a bar, so active and lively––it’s perfect for this town.” All of the building’s original marble has been repurposed and maintained. “You enter the hotel directly into our Chandelier Bar, where thousands of crystals are hung to take on the shape of a massive chandelier. “I think one ‘wow’ factor at this hotel will be right as guests walk in,” says Mali Carow, general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences New Orleans. Transforming the World Trade Center tower right on the river’s edge, the luxury hotel group arrives in late summer.
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