DTLA SQUARE ONE: OUR WARMEST WELCOME VOL 16 NO 6 - SEPTEMBER 2ND - SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021 / DTLAWEEKLY.COM
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CHANGING THE HOTEL INDUSTRY AT CITIZEN M
itizenM just opened its doors in Los Downtown Angeles marking the first of two properties planned for California this year and a revolutionary concept forever changing the traditional hotel industry. The Concept – in One Minute…
Picture this. You’ve just touched down in beautiful sunny California and it’s time to check into citizenM. With citizenM you can check in via the app on the way to the hotel, or use their one-minute checkin, self-service kiosk in the lobby. Just a few more steps from the elevator ride, open your lavish hotel suite with a few extra taps on your smartphone. There’s 315-M suites to choose from inside this 11-story hotel located on 4th and Spring in the Old Bank District, and like all citizenM hotels, the property’s entrance leads into a living-room styled lobby that feels like home. Comfortable furnishing with plenty of books, art and furniture are available to help calm your travel anxieties thanks to citizenM’s long-standing interior design partner, Vitra.
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In the heart of the living room is canteenM, serving food and drinks 24/7. Most food is sourced nearby, giving even those on a short Los Angeles trip a chance to taste something local.
Keys to the Palace
The bedrooms are all one style – cozy in size, and perfectly optimised for relaxation with wall-to-wall windows, an enormous XL king-size beds topped with the finest of European linens. There are jetlag-busting power showers, and an HD TVs with streaming and WiFi capabilities. Lay back and relax at citizenM, there’s a MoodPad tablet to control the ambience – from temperature to blinds to entertainment. It is also preloaded with the Brainwaves moods and citizenM’s exclusive music-and-light compositions, which are scientifically proven to alleviate the common stresses of travel: anxiety, sleeplessness, and lack of focus. The hotel offers a gym, five societyM meeting spaces, and a collectionM retail space with an unconventional assortment of travel essentials. The gym is located on the 10th floor and boasts a large terrace with spectacular views, and top-of-theline equipment from Peloton.
Art Abound at Citizen M
Each citizenM property comes complete with an art collection thanks to independent curator Lauren Mackler,
who most recently co-curated the Los Angeles biennial – Made in LA 2020 – at the Hammer Museum. The hotel will also boast an enormous living room mural by Friedrich Kunath, and the communal spaces and five societyM meeting rooms will feature works from the citizenM collection, curated by the hotel’s Executive Chairman Rattan Chadha. To mark the brand’s arrival in Los Angeles, citizenM partnered with Downtown Los Angeles photographer Corinne Schiavone to fill each hotel window with polaroid-style portraits of locals, transforming the seven-story property into a public gallery in the days leading up to its opening.
Called citizens of Los Angeles, the photographic campaign
captures the diversity and energy of the surrounding community and is meant to spotlight artists, activists, and business owners from the neighborhood. Building upon the brand’s commitment to the United States, this opening will complement the existing citizenM US portfolio in Boston, New York, Seattle, and Washington, DC, bringing the total offering to 10 hotels in the U.S. >>p.11
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