Within the next year two more 21c hotels will open-in Lexington, Kentucky and Oklahoma City-and, by 2018, another three, in Kansas City, Nashville and Indianapolis. In March a hotel opened in Durham, North Carolina, 125 rooms in a 17-storey Art Deco tower (designed by the same architects who built the Empire State Building, which the hotel resembles). That location broke with convention and went into a custom-built building. A conversation with the couple’s friend Alice Walton led to a third 21c in Bentonville, Arkansas, near Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Living large: Galleries are free to the publicĪ second 21c opened five years later in Cincinnati, 156 rooms inside the once grand (and now grander) Metropole Hotel. “It wasn’t long after it opened that we had this tremendous response, and friends and advisors”-a group who had originally pleaded with them not to try this concept at all-“began to say, ‘You really ought to do more of these. “We were only planning on doing the one in Louisville,” Wilson says of the 91-room flagship, where rooms start at $229 a night. Anyone can visit the galleries (free of charge) at any time, though guests, naturally, have the truest 24/7 access to the exhibitions. As with the nude nymphs at check-in, the pieces are purposefully unconventional and unconventionally displayed. As conceived by art collectors and philanthropists Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown-he a former political operative, she a Brown-Forman heiress-the hotels are often in historic buildings, gracefully reimagined by New York architect Deborah Berke, and feature museums filled with a permanent collection of art as well as temporary shows. After all, a night at this hotel is truly a night at a museum.įounded in 2006, 21c Museum Hotels combine provocative contemporary art (the name refers to the 21st century) and luxurious lodging in areas of the country that are typically flown over. The fact that they’re statues by contemporary artist Judy Fox doesn’t make the scene any less disturbing, and that’s exactly the point behind having these shameless sprites at check-in. He told her, "Leave a porch light on - they come back.Rooms with viewings: Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson keep a penthouse above the flagship 21c Hotel in Louisville that’s available to guestsįour naked children are playing behind the front desk at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville when I arrive. In the final scene of "Modern Family," Phil and Claire's porch light is illuminated - a callback to when Phil was comforting Claire earlier in the episode after the kids left. Instead of just one, though, all three Dunphy children end up moving out.Īs empty nesters for the first time in over 20 years, Phil and Claire decide to take a road trip in the RV and they jokingly discuss taking selfies with all of the Major League Baseball mascots. However, in order to restore a sense of order to the Dunphy home, Claire and Phil host an emergency meeting informing the kids that one of them must move out. The couple temporarily moves into their driveway RV that Phil inherited from his late father. The chaos of having all of their kids - plus Haley's husband and two babies - living under one roof, became too much for Phil, played by Ty Burrell, and Claire, played by Julie Bowen It often indicates a user profile.Ĭlaire and Phil ended the series with an empty nest and some exciting new plans. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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