Waldorf Hotel Cafe

Waldorf Hotel Cafe
Waldorf Hotel Cafe--Designed by Scott Cohen--Built by Funhouse/PGC

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Waldorf Diaries--Resting


The lobby is quiet.

The last major event of 2011 with its figure skaters, its orchestra, and its indoor forest was completed successfully. The hallways that were crowded with mask wearing revelers less than twelve hours ago are now empty and silent. The innumerable Christmas parties that preceded it are fast becoming distant memories from last year. At this precise moment I think I’m the only person in this entire hotel or at least the only one who is conscious.

Even the building seems to be sleeping. Its foundation and its floors have been given a respite from amphetamine driven bass beats—a break from the weight of thousands of feet—from spilled champagne—from bodies crushed together in an annual frenzy to commemorate the passing of twelve more months and celebrate the changing of a single digit. It deserves a little down time…

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