Why you should experience Hilton Club The Quin New York in New York, NY.
Hilton Club The Quin New York is a cultured hotel where Midtown's artistic inheritance, concert-hall pedigree, polished residential sensibility and 57th Street creative energy converge inside a former artists' address with nearly a century of Manhattan history.
Set along West 57th Street near 6th Avenue and just steps from Carnegie Hall, the hotel occupies the former Buckingham Hotel, a Beaux-Arts property designed by prolific New York architect Emery Roth and opened in 1929. The Buckingham became associated with an unusually distinguished creative circle, housing painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz as well as Polish pianist, composer and former prime minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski, while Marc Chagall also belonged to the building's artistic history. Reopened as The Quin in November 2013, the 208-room incarnation translated that inheritance into an art-centered hospitality concept with original works in guestrooms, a lobby gallery and programming conceived around the cultural life of West 57th Street. The result is a hotel where Roth's prewar architecture and the remembered presence of O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, Paderewski and Chagall make Midtown's creative past feel unusually native to the address.
What you should know about Hilton Club The Quin New York.
Hilton Club The Quin New York is best known for entering Hilton Grand Vacations' portfolio through a 2018 acquisition valued at more than $175 million before undergoing a year-long, top-to-bottom renovation exceeding $50 million and reopening on June 28, 2021 as the company's flagship New York vacation-ownership property. The conversion replaced the former 208-room hotel program with 212 studios and one- and two-bedroom accommodations, while newly expanded 18th and 19th floors introduced penthouse suites with outdoor terraces overlooking Central Park alongside a private owners' lounge, fitness center and restaurant. Hilton Grand Vacations commissioned Bill Rooney Studio and ForrestPerkins, a design studio of Perkins Eastman, for the transformation, combining custom furniture and contemporary residential detailing with artwork specially created by British artist Nick Walker and curated by DK Johnston. The project also extended Hilton Grand Vacations' unusually early commitment to Manhattan vacation ownership, which began with The Hilton Club New York in 2003, continued with West 57th Street by Hilton Club in 2009 and The Residences by Hilton Club in 2018, making The Quin the company's fourth New York acquisition when the transaction closed.
Quin Arts gives the property another authored layer through interactive artist salons and a 15-foot video wall, continuing a program that began after the hotel's 2013 rebirth and developed an artist-in-residence model connecting visual art, film, music, lectures and exhibitions with the building's creative lineage. Artist Nick Walker inaugurated the residency program before photorealist painter Eric Zener became its second artist-in-residence in 2014, creating original work for The Quin's permanent collection while curating pieces for the property's video-art installation. Perkins Eastman and ForrestPerkins carried that cultural premise into the physical environment through a restored exterior, double-height street-level windows, rich interior finishes and custom-painted walls, with the architecture practice describing the completed property as drawing directly from the intersection of art, music and fashion surrounding the address. Hilton currently maintains that creative emphasis alongside Acadia, the property's on-site restaurant, while the combination of the Quin Arts legacy, Walker commission, DK Johnston curation and Perkins Eastman design gives the contemporary Hilton Club incarnation a cultural character rooted in the building itself.
How to fold Hilton Club The Quin New York into your trip.
Hilton Club The Quin New York works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing the musical ambition, modernist experimentation and material craftsmanship that turned this stretch of Midtown into one of Manhattan's densest creative districts.
Begin at Carnegie Hall, where steel magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned architect and cellist William Burnet Tuthill to create the concert hall that opened on May 5, 1891 with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducting during his American debut, survived a threatened demolition through violinist Isaac Stern's campaign and was purchased by New York City in 1960. Continue to Museum of Modern Art, whose origins with Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan led to an October 1929 opening in the Heckscher Building at 5th Avenue and 57th Street before Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone created its purpose-built 53rd Street home in 1939, inaugurated during the museum's tenth anniversary. Conclude at Museum of Arts and Design, founded by craft patron Aileen Osborn Webb in 1956 as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, renamed the American Craft Museum in 1979 and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2002 before moving into Brad Cloepfil's redesigned Jerome and Simona Chazen Building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. The progression moves from Tuthill's acoustical experiment through Rockefeller-era modernism into Webb's elevation of craft and material practice, placing Hilton Club The Quin New York within the same artistic continuum that once brought O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, Paderewski and Chagall to its own 57th Street address.
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