Brice Marden’s The Attended which sold last year at auction for a record $11 million
Art power couple Brice and Helen Marden bought the Hotel Tivoli (for $1.5 million) near their upstate home and studios and have spent a year or so renovating it into a homey retreat. The 10-room Hotel Tivoli now has art by friends like Franceso Clemente and has a newly reopened 100-seat restaurant called The Corner. Brice told The Wall Street Journal;
“There’s always been a place here, and it’s good that it stays going. I’m anxious to get it open.”
The Mardens are hoping that the hotel and restaurant will be a hub for locals and the Bard College crowd, as well as visitors from Hudson just a bit to the north. The vintage furniture in the hotel was sourced upstate by the Mardens, who collaborated with the design firm Reunion Goods & Services on the renovation. The personal touches extend to the doorway moldings, which are covered in a custom gray paint hand-mixed by Brice. Apparently, the secret to the color —referred to as “Brice Gray”— is adding some cadmium orange to a regular old Benjamin Moore gray. Brice’s canvases sell for millions. (A small one is like $3 million+, which would buy and renovate the Hotel Tivoli, and have plenty left over.)
In addition to their nearby residence, Rose Hill, they own several other houses and multiple studios (including a huge West Village spread and a place on Hydra in Greece). And they already have another hotel, as well the Golden Rock Inn on Nevis in the Carribean, which they bought in 2006. Says Helen;
“We each have a hobby. Golden Rock is mine, and this is Brice’s. But this is the end of our hotel chain.”
For more pictures and the full article, go here.
Brice and Helen Marden in the newly renovated Hotel Tivoli
A guest room at Hotel Tivoli
The Corner restaurant in Hotel Tivoli seats 100
The Golden Rock Inn in Nevis
(Photos of Hotel Tivoli, Tina Tyrell; via The Wall Street Journal)
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