subscribe to style file blog via RSSa look at de niro’s “living room”
April 29, 2008 6:42 pm
The back room at Ago in the Greenwich Hotel was packed with celebs (Liya Kebede, Ed Burns, and Liam Neeson among them) at Chanel’s dinner for the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night. But one famous face was missing: Hotel co-owner Robert De Niro was busy filming in Connecticut ("I would have told people he was in the kitchen all night," joked Chiara Clemente). The actor’s presence was still felt, however. During a post-dinner tour of the newly opened property, which includes a pool, sauna, and sake bar in the basement, we were told that "Bobby" uses the hotel as his own living room and conference center. With a breezy, cigarette-friendly courtyard and a series of lobbies open only to hotel guests and "friends and family," it looks like a few more boldfaced names will be doing the same. "It’s like the Bowery," one guest said—an appropriate assertion, since many of the same people were involved in the construction of both hotels. "But better."
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