The distinctive turquoise blue property, built in 1933 and said to have been a meeting place for Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, is getting a top-to-bottom renovation by Ace Hotel DTLA developers BLVD Hospitality.
To inform the renovation, BLVD co-founders Jon Blanchard and Nicolo Rusconi undertook research, including working with the Santa Monica Conservancy, to consult archival photos and documents of the history of The Georgian. “We definitely look at this more as a restoration than anything else. We say that history is our muse for the Georgian,” says Rusconi. Adds Blanchard, “There weren’t a ton of historic elements that were intact from the ’30s to the ’50s.
For the hotel’s public areas including its lobby, Ocean Avenue-facing terrace and two restaurants, BLVD looked south for inspiration. “This building looks like it was plucked out of Miami with the blue exterior finish, we really wanted to celebrate that inside. And so we looked at the Art Deco movement in South America and in Cuba, where they used a lot of color with their Art Deco interiors and exteriors,” he says.
Rendering of a living room inside one of The Georgian’s 28 suites, 14 of which overlooked the Pacific. Blanchard and Rusconi worked off vintage photographs to also restore the property’s lower-level restaurant, which was originally called the Red Griffin and was later renamed The Georgian Room. “The Red Griffin was one of the pre-eminent destinations for Old Hollywood,” says Rusconi. In recent decades, though, “it was used as an event space and kind of lost its charm of what it was once was,” says Blanchard.
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