Ace Hotel

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Ace Hotel
Company type Private
Industry Hospitality
Founded1999;25 years ago (1999)
FounderAlex Calderwood
Wade Weigel
Doug Herrick
Headquarters
Number of locations
10
Key people
Parent Atelier Ace
Website www.acehotel.com

Ace Hotel is a chain of hotels headquartered in Los Angeles and New York City. Founded in 1999 in Seattle, it operates hotels Internationally in 4 continents, with locations in; Brooklyn, New York City; Palm Springs, California; Seattle, Washington; Kyoto, Japan; Toronto, Canada; and Sydney, Australia with hotels soon to open in Athens, Greece and Fukuoka, Japan.

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History

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Ace Hotel Portland
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Ace Hotel New York
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Guest room at Ace Hotel New York
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Ace Hotel Kyoto

In 1999, the first Ace Hotel was opened. Friends Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel, and Doug Herrick purchased and transformed a Seattle halfway house into an affordable hotel that would appeal to the creative class. Calderwood and Weigel had previously founded Rudy's, a reinvigorated traditional barbershop concept they started in Seattle, which eventually expanded to more than a dozen locations, along with an experiential marketing company known as Neverstop, and an audiovisual arts platform known as ARO.Space with Pearl Jam co-founder Stone Gossard and Kung Faux creator Mic Neumann, who is credited for bringing in such artists as Kaws and Shepard Fairey to decorate the walls of various Rudy's and Ace Hotel locations. [1]

In 2006, the group opened a second hotel in Portland, Oregon followed by properties in Palm Springs, California and New York City in 2009. [2]

In 2013, an Ace Hotel opened in the Shoreditch neighborhood of London, [3] where Calderwood had defined a goal of opening a new Ace Hotel every "one to two years", before his untimely death at age 47 on November 16, 2013. [4]

In 2014, a downtown Los Angeles location of the Ace Hotel opened in a former theatre, followed by Ace Hotel locations in Pittsburgh in 2015, New Orleans in 2016, and Chicago in 2017.[ citation needed ]

In 2020, an Ace Hotel location opened in Kyoto, Japan that was designed by Kengo Kuma. [5] In September 2020, it was announced that Ace Hotel London Shoreditch would not reopen after being closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]

In 2021, Ace Hotel opened locations in Brooklyn, New York; Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia.[ citation needed ]

In 2024 Ace is poised to open a hotel on the Athens Riviera in Greece.

Locations

According to Calderwood, the style and furnishing of each Ace property is designed to reflect its location, with an eye towards re-imagining properties that are "challenged." [7]

Former locations:

The 2011 episode "Blunderbuss" of the sketch comedy series Portlandia had a sketch set at the "Deuce Hotel", where the obnoxiously hip staff hand out complimentary turntables and typewriters to all guests; [18] it was a parody specifically of Ace Hotel Portland. [19]

On her song Ace, rapper Noname talks about being at Ace Hotel in London. [20]

Bon Iver makes a reference to the Ace Hotel Los Angeles in the song "33 "GOD"" on the album 22, A Million.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Man Behind The Ace Empire" by Matt Gross, The New York Times, January 8th, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Sunday CEO: Alex Calderwood, Ace Hotel & Swim Club". The Desert Sun . 1 February 2009. Archived from the original on 11 March 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "First Look: Ace Hotel London Shoreditch · HUH". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Alex Calderwood, Creator and Face of the Unconventional Ace Hotel Chain, Dies at 47". The New York Times . 15 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Kengo Kuma to Design Ace Hotel's First Japanese Location". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  6. 1 2 Gibson, Eleanor (12 September 2020). "Ace Hotel closes London branch permanently". Dezeen. Archived from the original on 12 September 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  7. ↑ Torline, Monica. "Aces high on pop culture", The Desert Sun , Palm Springs, 1 October 2009.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Fiona (14 August 2020). "Ace Hotel builds on a Kyoto legacy". Monocle. Nikkei Asia.
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  10. ↑ "Style & Substance". Metropolis. 22 July 2009. Archived from the original on 31 July 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
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  15. ↑ "Theatre-inspired interiors for Ace Hotel Shoreditch". Design Week . 10 September 2013.
  16. ↑ Costello, Sara Ruffin (22 March 2016). "A Cult Hotel Opens in New Orleans". The New York Times . Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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  18. ↑ "Blunderbuss" review, The A.V. Club , February 18, 2011
  19. ↑ Portlandia: Over | Flyer Wars | Deuce Hotel, Anne Adams, Portland Monthly Culturephile blog, March 1, 2011
  20. ↑ Noname (Ft. Saba & Smino) – Ace , retrieved 6 May 2019
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