Tag Archive for: Vanessa Guilford

Terry Trucco

Sipping a Drink and Gazing at the Empire State Building at Pod 39’s Cool Roof Bar

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We’ll venture a wild guess that architect Arthur Loomis Harmon never dreamed the roof of Allerton House, a residential hotel for men he designed in 1916, would one day serve up Mexican beer, California Cabernet and cocktails like Fly By Night (gin, lemon juice, cinnamon-vanilla bean, orange blossom and sea salt on the rocks). Read more

Terry Trucco

A Chat With Vanessa Guilford About Designing Pod51 and Pod39, the Hip Budget Hotels

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A red room at the new Pod 39.

In early 2011 I spent a night at the Pod Hotel on East 51st Street in one of the tiniest rooms on the planet. But what my little cell lacked in size it made up in style and smarts. Read more

Terry Trucco

A First Look at Style On the Cheap at The New Pod Hotel

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers aside, Pod is a cool name for a budget hotel.  To my ears, it sounds upbeat and hip, because what could be more upbeat, or hip, than a place that proudly admits its rooms are small and cheap? Read more