For a hundred years The Starlight Room, located on the twenty-first floor of Kimpton’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, has been a cult destination of Californian social life and today it has given itself a spectacular restyling and a new name to celebrate a century since its opening.
The famous lounge bar is now called Lizzie’s Starlight (a tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, promoter of the naval expedition with which Sir Francis Drake arrived in San Francisco) and is furnished with crystal lamps, boiserie, decorations and large mirrors which recall the 1920s – when the club opened to the public for the first time – and the typical style of the English Renaissance.
Dawson Design Associates designs the interiors of the 4,100-square-meter club, dominated by the white colour: the space, with its high ceilings and elongated windows with a panoramic view of the city, is thus a lightweight container, inside which luxurious crown moldings, brick cladding, decorations inspired by 16th century gorget collars, exposed systems, suspension units combined with projectors, stools with metal structures and comfortable seating are mixed.
The armchairs and chairs, chosen for this eclectic project, are both from the Ava collection by Bross, designed by Michael Schmidt: thanks to the soft lines of the shell and the unique rhomboidal quilted front cover, the Ava chairs combine contemporary shapes with retro details.
The velvet-covered armchairs, on the other hand, suggest a more contemporary interpretation of the original atmosphere of Lizzie’s Starlight, perfectly linking the Elizabethan era and the most advanced technologies of our millennium.
