“Aman New York Hotel: A Hidden Oasis in the Heart of Manhattan”

The firm Aman opens a hotel in New York that makes its guests believe that they are on some hidden and silent island in the Pacific instead of in the noisy center of Manhattan.

The clothes of the carefree gurus of the technological companies of Silicon Valley and the crassly rich characters on the Succession television series is not ostentatious.

Jeans, white and gray T-shirts and sneakers with white rubber soles, for the former, and more formal and subdued, for the latter. However, those of both are basic garments made with nobler materials than some dynasties that fit like a glove. They are exclusive, quality, hand-cut and tailored.

Garments that we are not going to find in the stores we usually go to when we go shopping for clothes. Today luxury is discreet and light, like cashmere, camel hair and Egyptian cotton.

Aman New York Hotel Features

Something similar happens with the Aman New York hotel, the first urban establishment of this distinguished brand in the United States and the second outside of Thailand, after the one in Tokyo.

The hotels, resorts, villas and residences that Aman has scattered around the world are a destination in themselves. To the French Alps, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, remote Philippine islands and Bhutan, among other suggestive geographic coordinatesthe historic Crown Building from 1921 has been added, on the New York corner where 57th Street and Fifth Avenue intersect.

A place in the center of Manhattan where the Broadway theaters, the Museum of Modern Art, the Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Central Park and one of the most expensive shopping areas in the world.A location more typical of a breakfast at diamonds than a place of peace, a concept that represents and identifies Aman.

That is why this hotel, instead of having an access door at street level and guarded by one or two doormen, the reception is hidden on the 14th floor of the building. In it is the terrace, the bar and the famous restaurants Arva, which pays homage to southern Italian cuisine, and Nama,a Japanese one in which the patrimonial washoku cuisine is honored and a Western nod to the traditional design of traditional Japanese accommodations, the ryokan, and which includes an interior karesansui rock garden.

Below that 14th floor and up to the 7th there is a jazz club, an underground wine cellar, 22 private residences, the Aman Spa (three floors) and 83 suites. Suites with dimensions ranging from 72 square meters to 257, all of them with stone ceilings. 10-foot ceilings, fireplaces, marble bathrooms with oval soaking tubs, rainfall showers, and double vanities. Each features a large-scale mural art inspired by Hasegawa Thaku’s 15th-century masterpiece Pine Trees (Shrin-zu bybu). These wide, elegant and warm spaces make a stay in them a more than comfortable and very oriental retreat.

Architectural style of the Aman New York hotel

The Aman New York, in the Crown Building, a paradigmatic example of the 19th century French Beaux Arts architectural style (a combination of neoclassical with Gothic and Renaissance elements, in which materials such as iron and glass are used and in which the facades are decorated with sculptures), inside it is silent as a monastery and without a trace of a logo, like the clothes worn by the new billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and the patrician Roy family.

If a building like the Crown was built in New York, it was because many American architects, such as Henry Hobson Richardson, John Galen Howard, Daniel Burnham y Louis SullivanThey went to study the Beaux-Arts style in Paris and returned to build buildings like the ones they saw in France.

The remodeling that Aman has carried out in the Crown has stopped the New York amnesia and has preserved something of that old New York that is easier to imagine than to see. To which about 1,800 euros, in addition, they will be able to spend the night in the simplest suite of this Aman. A suite that is not uncommon to make you feel at home. Most likely even better.