Article: Wearstler rules: at KWID's Viceroy in Santa Monica, California, plays of color and scale define the look.

THE: VICEROY IS unabashedly cheerful and welcoming--in a word, pretty. The antithesis of those hotels that relentlessly strive for cool, this one presents a fresh face. Turning the Pacific Shores Hotel, completed in 1969, into a lounge by the sea, Kelly Wearstler of KWID tweaked and modernized British-colonial and Regency style in an upbeat mode.

The property is a new collaboration between Wearstler and the Kor Hotel Group, following their Avalon Hotel and Maison 140 projects in Los Angeles. True to boutique-hotel formula, the Viceroy's $15 million, two-year renovation involved taking an existing building, maintaining the key count, and revamping public areas to ...

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