Article: A comeback, and a new luxe Schrager revises his style with the Gramercy Park Hotel

Alice Rawsthorn
International Herald Tribune
08-07-2006
One day last week Ian Schrager e-mailed a poem by Rudyard Kipling to his employees. ''It's the one that goes: 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs,''' he laughs ruefully. ''At this stage in a project I feel so catatonic that I become almost stoic, because if I'm not calm, how can I expect anyone else to be?''The immediate cause of Schrager's catatonia is the opening Tuesday of the first phase of the Gramercy Park Hotel, the $200 million New York project on which he has been working for three years. Several tons of topiary are being unloaded in preparation, and dozens of Venetian crystal candelabras unpacked. ...

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