Hotel Dylan opened in Woodstock this past weekend, adding a touch of funky glamour to the upscale Catskills town.
Owner Paul Covello bought the property a year ago and then renovated it — enlisting the creative design duo of Bob and Cortney Novogratz.
“My wife and I were big fans of their show [HGTV’s ‘Home by Novogratz’],” Covello said. “We thought they’d fit in well here and they did.”
Bob Novogratz said the design aesthetic for the hotel “evokes everything that’s great” about film director/screenwriter Wes Anderson’s style.
“We took a page from his whimsical humor in ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ for an ode to such a classic American town like Woodstock,” Bob Novogratz said.
The 11-room hotel includes a two-level, 6,500 square-foot restaurant space — and Covello is actively scouting restaurateurs. The space, which seats around 130, includes a bar and cafe area plus an upstairs musical venue/catering space.
The restaurant, Covello said, will be a gastropub with local Hudson Valley flavors and weekly unplugged live music shows.
Gianfranco and Paula Sorrentino, owners of The Leopard at Café Des Artistes — a fave of Bill Clinton’s — celebrated the iconic restaurant’s third anniversary under their ownership, and its newly restored murals by Howard Chandler Christy, with a dinner honoring the late artist’s daughter, Holly.
Holly is writing a book about her father’s affair with her mother and muse, Elise Ford, depicted as one of the beautiful nymphs in the iconic paintings.
The Sorrentinos, who also own Il Gattopardo and Mozzarella & Vino, hired Rustin Levenson Art Conservation Associates to restore the oil-on-canvas series.
Conservation director Harriet Irgang, who led the restoration, also worked on Maxfield Parrish’s “Old King Cole” in the St. Regis Hotel.
We hear … that the third annual Imerman Angels gala will take place June 19 at the Gilded Lily. The group matches cancer fighters with mentors of the same age and gender who share similar interests and who faced and survived the same cancer.