Rooms with a Muse: Traveler Inspires a Hotel

IT was intrigued to read a recent Advertising Age article (thanks to a tip from Gawker) about a California hotelier who bases the concepts for his boutique properties on magazines. We moved from intrigue to infatuation when we learned that Joie de Vivre Hospitality's holdings include a hotel inspired by National Geographic Traveler. San Francisco's Hotel Carlton was designed to exhibit five qualities CEO Chip Conley and his staff attribute to our publication: "enchanting, international, cheerful, bohemian, eclectic." (We are, aren't we?)

We bloggers think they did a pretty good job, and wonder whether Conley might be willing to send his designers over to make Jessie's office look a little more like this, or maybe upgrade our conference room. Other JDV properties include the Rolling Stone-styled Phoenix Hotel, the Wired-themed Hotel Avante and the Dwell/Real Simple love child Hotel Vitale.