{"id":224253,"date":"2024-04-02T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=224253"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:57:06","slug":"inside-gardiner-house-hotel-in-newport","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/inside-gardiner-house-hotel-in-newport\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Into The Artistic Glamor of Gardiner House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Studio Bar\u2019s walls, coated in Moorland Green by Fine Paints of Europe and hung with 35 traditional and contemporary artworks curated by co-owner Howard Cushing. Photography by Michael Clifford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step Into The Artistic Glamor of Gardiner House<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Celebrated early 20th\u2013century American painter Howard Gardiner Cushing died at just 47. But, over a century later, his influence lives on at Gardiner House, a luxury harbor-front hotel opening April 1 in Newport, Rhode Island, where the artist had a residence and studio. It\u2019s the vision of his great-grandson, Howard Cushing, and Wirt Blaffer, who collaborated with local architecture firm Herk Works<\/a> and Brooklyn, New York, design studio Space Exploration<\/a> on the five-year, ground-up project that\u2019s residential in scale and spirit. The centerpiece of the 21-room property is the entrance hall, a double-height space floored in black-and-white limestone and marble tile, centered on a grand spiral stair, and wrapped by wallpaper that recreates a lush landscape mural painted by Cushing the senior in 1905 at the Ledges, his nearby family home. Right off the lobby is Studio Bar, its rich green walls hung salon-style with dozens of paintings, satirical cartoons, and original signed prints by the likes of Slim Aarons, H.M. Bateman, and Brandon Best, an eclectic mix curated by Cushing the junior.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Studio Bar\u2019s walls, coated in Moorland Green by Fine Paints of Europe and hung with 35 traditional and contemporary artworks curated by co-owner Howard Cushing. Photography by Michael Clifford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The new clapboard mansard-style structure, encompassing 25,000 square feet and 21 guest rooms and suites, scaled to blend with the surrounding 18th- and 19th-century architecture. Photography by Nick Mele.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A closeup of the mural, reproduced by twenty2 wallpaper + textiles. Photography by Nick Mele.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The entry hall of Gardiner House, a boutique waterfront hotel opening April 1 in Newport, Rhode Island, by firms Herk Works and Space Exploration, features a recreation of a mural done by the property\u2019s namesake, late painter Howard Gardiner Cushing, in 1905, a Goyard trunk, and a peacock chair, both vintage, the latter sourced locally from R\u00e9 antiques shop, as well as flooring from BelTile. Photography by Nick Mele.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n