Why you should experience Hotel AKA NoMad in New York, NY.
Hotel AKA NoMad is a sculptural luxury hotel where NoMad's design culture, fashion sensibility, architectural sophistication and quietly cosmopolitan character converge within Piero Lissoni's first complete hotel design in New York.
Set along West 28th Street near 5th Avenue and just steps from the Church of the Transfiguration, the hotel occupies a 20-story building whose transformation gave Milanese architect and designer Piero Lissoni control of the property's guestrooms, public spaces and furnishings as a unified composition. Lissoni worked with Italian manufacturers including LEMA, Living Divani, Porro and Boffi to create interiors grounded in precise proportions, natural materials and contemporary Italian craftsmanship. A dramatic open staircase rises through the lobby beneath sculptural lighting, while stone, dark woods and carefully selected furniture establish the restrained residential atmosphere that continues throughout the property. The result is a hotel where Lissoni's distinctly Milanese design style gives NoMad's creative character a hospitality expression built around material precision, contemporary furniture and architectural restraint.
What you should know about Hotel AKA NoMad.
Hotel AKA NoMad is best known for reopening in 2023 after AKA acquired the former Roger New York and commissioned Piero Lissoni to undertake his first complete hotel project in New York, transforming the 20-story property into 178 guestrooms and suites shaped by contemporary Italian residential design. Lissoni Associati developed the interiors with furnishings and architectural elements from Italian companies including LEMA, Living Divani, Porro, Boffi, Fantini and Flos, extending the designer's longstanding relationships with major Italian manufacturers into guestrooms and shared spaces. The accommodation program includes guestrooms beginning around 220 square feet and suites extending beyond 600 square feet, with select Terrace Suites adding private outdoor space and Empire State Building views to the residentially conceived layouts. AKA, founded by Larry Korman and led by the Korman family, positioned the property within a hospitality portfolio built around longer-stay residential living, bringing that operating philosophy together with Lissoni's Milanese design language at the brand's NoMad address. Piero Lissoni's New York hotel debut, the 178-room program, extensive network of Italian design manufacturers and AKA's residential-hospitality lineage established Hotel AKA NoMad as an unusually concentrated expression of contemporary Italian design in Manhattan.
The design authorship extends into Mezzanine Lounge, where Piero Lissoni conceived a second-floor social environment around low-slung Living Divani seating, books, artwork and intimate groupings that translate the lobby's Italian residential style into a quieter communal room. Fantini fixtures and Boffi elements carry the same network of Italian manufacturers into the bathrooms, allowing functional components to participate in the property-wide design composition. AKA further develops the residential premise through Penthouse-level accommodations and extended-stay services associated with the Korman family's broader portfolio, connecting the NoMad property with a hospitality model the company has cultivated across New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia and other international destinations. Together, Piero Lissoni, Living Divani, Boffi and AKA sustain a coherent creative thesis in which Italian industrial design and the Korman family's residential approach remain inseparable from Hotel AKA NoMad's identity.
How to fold Hotel AKA NoMad into your trip.
Hotel AKA NoMad works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing decorative design, Gilded Age collecting and Manhattan architecture through the cultural fabric surrounding NoMad.
Begin at Museum of Sex, founded by Daniel Gluck with a mission centered on the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality, where rotating exhibitions have drawn upon art, material culture, scholarship and contemporary installations since the institution opened in 2002. Continue to Morgan Library & Museum, where financier J. Pierpont Morgan commissioned Charles Follen McKim to create his private library, surrounding manuscripts, rare books, drawings and printed works with marble, carved walnut, stained glass and Renaissance-inspired ornament. Conclude at Empire State Building, where Shreve, Lamb & Harmon designed the steel-framed skyscraper around an exceptionally compressed construction campaign that raised its 102 stories above 5th Avenue and permanently altered the visual character of the neighborhood surrounding Hotel AKA NoMad. The progression moves from an unconventional institution examining cultural history through Morgan's intensely personal world of collecting into Manhattan's vertical architectural ambition, revealing the design, scholarship and creative independence surrounding Hotel AKA NoMad.
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