Why you should experience Made Hotel in New York, NY.
Made Hotel is a tactile boutique hotel where NoMad's design consciousness, culinary creativity, independent hospitality and quietly bohemian character converge within an intimate Manhattan retreat built around natural materials and creative collaboration.
Set along West 29th Street near Broadway and just steps from Marble Collegiate Church, the hotel was developed by Sam Gelin with architecture by Gene Kaufman Architect and interiors by Studio MAI, pairing a contemporary tower with an interior style built from raw bronze, handwoven fabrics, exposed concrete, walnut and richly textured woods. Studio MAI approached the guestrooms through custom furniture that performs multiple functions, including platform beds integrated with storage and desks, reinforcing a design philosophy centered on craftsmanship and efficient use of Manhattan space. Gelin carried the same independent sensibility into the public rooms through commissioned artwork and a hospitality program conceived around music, coffee, food and social gathering. The result is a hotel where Sam Gelin, Gene Kaufman Architect and Studio MAI translate NoMad's creative culture into a material-driven property whose personality comes from authorship, craftsmanship and intimacy.
What you should know about Made Hotel.
Made Hotel is best known for opening in 2017 as developer and hotelier Sam Gelin's first hotel, introducing 108 guestrooms within an 18-story building designed by Gene Kaufman Architect with interiors by Los Angeles-based Studio MAI. Gelin assembled the project through his hospitality company Made Hotels, while Studio MAI designed 20 room configurations using custom furnishings, raw bronze shelving, handwoven fabrics and beds positioned on elevated platforms that incorporate storage and work surfaces. The building's hospitality program originally combined the ground-floor coffee shop Paper, restaurant Ferris and rooftop bar Good Behavior, giving the 108-room property three distinct food-and-beverage identities distributed vertically from street level to the upper floors. Ferris was launched under chef Greg Proechel, whose earlier New York career included Eleven Madison Park, Graffit and Blanca, with the restaurant organized around an open kitchen and a menu shaped by wood-fired cooking and globally influenced technique. Gelin's independent development, Gene Kaufman's 18-story architecture, Studio MAI's 20 accommodation layouts and Proechel's culinary authorship established Made Hotel as a deliberately small-scale alternative within NoMad's rapidly expanding hotel landscape.
Chef Greg Proechel developed Ferris alongside beverage director and partner Thomas Pastuszak, whose wine career included Colicchio & Sons and The NoMad before the pair joined Gelin's hotel project. Paper Coffee extended the property's culinary character into daytime culture through a street-level café that became integrated with the lobby's communal working and gathering spaces, making coffee service part of Studio MAI's broader interior composition. Good Behavior carried Gelin's program to the rooftop through a tropical-influenced bar overlooking Manhattan, while Made Hotels connected all three concepts through a single independently developed property. Together, Greg Proechel, Thomas Pastuszak, Paper Coffee and Good Behavior gave Made Hotel a coherent hospitality ecosystem extending from morning coffee through chef-led dining into rooftop nightlife.
How to fold Made Hotel into your trip.
Made Hotel works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing American religious architecture, photography and decorative craftsmanship through the streets surrounding NoMad.
Begin at Marble Collegiate Church, whose congregation traces its history to the Dutch Reformed community of New Amsterdam and whose 5th Avenue building by Samuel A. Warner uses Tuckahoe marble, Gothic forms and a prominent spire to create one of the avenue's enduring nineteenth-century compositions. Continue to Fotografiska New York, where the international photography organization established its Manhattan presence inside the former Church Missions House, a richly modeled building by Robert W. Gibson and Edward J. Neville Stent that brought contemporary photographic exhibitions into an ornate architectural setting near Park Avenue South. Conclude at Museum of Arts and Design, whose collection and exhibition program explores the changing relationship among craft, materials, art and design from its Columbus Circle home, extending the afternoon from architectural craftsmanship into contemporary experimentation with objects and fabrication. The progression moves from Samuel A. Warner's marble church through Gibson and Stent's richly ornamented former institutional building into a museum devoted to material experimentation, revealing the culture of craftsmanship and design that provides Made Hotel with its strongest Manhattan context.
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