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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (November 4, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0544334477
ISBN-13: 978-0544334472
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.2 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces

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Product Description Review An Amazon Best Book of the Month, December 2013: By the mid-nineteenth century, New York City was broke and divided, its coffers emptiedby corrupt politicians and a vast chasm separating rich from the vast massesof the poor. Architect Philip Gengembre Hubert dreamed of reclaiming the cityfrom the opportunists, reuniting its citizens within egalitarian communitiesof art and commerce, mingling all economic classes and vocations. And when hissignature achievement, the Hotel Chelsea, opened in 1844, it immediatelybecame a beacon for artists and inspiration, the spirits of creativity andcollaboration literally blueprinted into its Victorian bricks and gables. WithInside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York\'s Legendary ChelseaHotel, Sherill Tippins has written the definitive biography of the New Yorklandmark. Tippins\'s Chelsea lives and breathes along with the mind-blowingroster of (often infamous) geniuses and eccentrics who haunt its chambers.Dylan Thomas died at the Chelsea, and Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde there.Warhol\'s Superstars dined in its halls, and Dee Dee Ramone detoxed in itsjunk-friendly confines. True to Hubert\'s vision, artists worked and trysted(and recombined) in wild pairings: Sam Shepard and Patti Smith; Smith andRobert Mapplethorpe; Jack Kerouac and Gore Vidal; Leonard Cohen and JanisJoplin; Dylan and Edie Sedgwick; Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick; and, ofcourse, Sid and Nancy. Inside the Dream Palace stands as a fitting monument tothe hotel, its misfit denizens, and the art that it nurtured and inspired.--Jon Foro --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title. Read more From Booklist Starred Review Tippins continues herexploration of New York’s creative synergy, begun in February House (2005), inthis astute, star-studded chronicle of Manhattan’s fabled Chelsea Hotel.Idealistic French architect Philip Hubert established the city’s first homeclub associations, or cooperatives, and designed the Chelsea AssociationBuilding on Twenty-Third Street specifically to attract artists, musicians,and writers. The “mammoth red-brick edifice” did just that from its 1884opening to its 2005 closing for renovations. Tippins charts the ups and downsof the Chelsea in sync with the booms and busts of the city as the hotel’srooms were subdivided, and its creative endeavors descended from poetryreadings to porno films. Tippins tells riveting stories about such Chelsearesidents as writers Edgar Lee Masters, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, AllenGinsberg, Sam Shepard, and Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote 2001: A Space Odysseythere. Jackson Pollock puked on the dining-room carpet. Leonard Cohen andJanis Joplin met in an elevator. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey filmed ChelseaGirls. Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe flowered. Zealous, big-pictureresearcher Tippins not only tells compelling tales, she also weaves them intoa strikingly fresh, lucid, and socially anchored history of New York’s world-altering art movements. Though its future is uncertain, Tippins ensures thatthe Chelsea Hotel, dream palace and microcosm, will live on in our collectivememory. --Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title. Read more See all Editorial Reviews

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