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Waterfront development ( from top):
The terrace bar is housed in a glass box on the
roof of the old cooperage; the farm-to-table
restaurant Reynards; window walls and poured
concrete floors give the rooms a factory look
Wythe Hotel
80 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Tel: +1 718 460 8000. www.wythehotel.com
1HOTELS Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s
answer to the East Village,
has finally got the kind of boutique
hotel it deserves: a cathedral of hipsterdom
repurposed from an old waterfront caskmaking
factory. The de rigueur terrace bar
is housed in a glass box roof extension with
killer views of Midtown. Set among graffitied
walls and old warehouses on the corner
of Wythe Avenue and North 11th Street,
just doors from vintage El Dorado Beacon’s
Closet, the Brooklyn Brewery and Brooklyn
Bowl, the Wythe Hotel is the brainchild of
property developer Jed Walentas, Australian
hotelier Peter Lawrence, and Brooklyn
restaurateur Andrew Tarlow (Diner and
Inndustrial chic
Marlow & Sons) whose tried-and-tested
farm-to-table concept stokes the woodfired
Reynards downstairs. The hotel has
already been dubbed “the nicest thing ever
built in Williamsburg” by The New York
Observer. No wonder – the original interior
was gutted and its wooden insides used for
the beds and ceilings, with exposed brick,
concrete floors, and window walls offset by
custom wallpaper and art commissioned
from Duke Riley, Espo, and Tom Fruin.
Rooms from €135.
KARIN STRÖM
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and Finland. Taxes and fees apply, from €63.
COURTESY OF THE WYTHE HOTEL
18 FEBRUARY 2013 SCANORAMA