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New Ace Hotels, One on Either Side of the World
Over 20 years after launching, Ace Hotel Group retains its reputation for catering to creative types with its cool, unconventional design. At one of its newest locations, in Toronto, and more specifically the city’s boutique-lined Fashion District, guests are greeted by a lobby with soaring, steel-edged concrete arches, red oak wall paneling and a three-story art installation by A. Howard Sutcliffe that recalls the sparkling waters of nearby Lake Ontario. With interiors designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and Atelier Ace, this and the adjacent bar area are accented with plush midcentury vintage sofas and chairs, and opaque plexiglass and wood lights that were inspired by kites. The 123 guest rooms were conceived as urban cabins, so each one features a deep-set window bench and a vinyl collection curated by the local record label Arts & Crafts. Over in Sydney, Australia, Ace worked with the architecture firm Bates Smart and the interiors firm Flack Studio to renovate — and add eight floors to — the Tyne Building, which was built atop the country’s earliest kiln site in 1916 to serve as a dispensary and warehouse for a well-known pharmacist. Now 18 stories tall, it has 257 rooms that, with their textural straw wall paneling and tangerine-colored carpets, feel appealingly retro. Upstairs and down, guests can enjoy inviting dining options, whether the Italian- and Japanese-inspired plates at the forthcoming rooftop restaurant, Kiln, or the vegetable-forward ones at the ground-floor restaurant, Loam. From $290 (Sydney) and $305 (Toronto), acehotel.com.
It’s only natural that Ulla Johnson is expanding into premium denim. So many of the brand’s pre-existing pieces look great with jeans, and the designer herself has always loved them. Until she designed her own, however, she had trouble finding the kind of extra-special pairs that you wear and love for years. “Everything I’ve always wanted [in denim] is in this range — impeccable quality of fabrication and craft, and pieces handmade with sustainable washing and finishing,” she says. Indeed, each garment in the offering, which is produced in a longstanding Los Angeles factory that uses…
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