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Article: Fernando Santangelo. (architect who helps redesign Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard, California)
- Article from:
- Interior Design
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Its refurbishment almost completed, the Chateau Marmont stages a comeback on Sunset Boulevard.
The stars whose single name is sufficient identification--Garbo, Harlow, Monroe, Bogart, Brando and Olivier among them--all slept here. John Belushi died here. From its Sunset Boulevard perch, the Chateau Marmont has long been Hollywood's darling, its walls privy to much of the gossip on which this town feasts. Completed concurrently with the market crash of '29, the Chateau was built as a luxury apartment house that was quickly transformed into a hotel. Its facade replicates a Loire Valley castle, and its steel and concrete construction makes it one of LA's first ...