Randy Settenbrino, Owner and Artist behind the Historic Blue Moon Hotel Project, gives an exclusive interview.
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New York City’s Lower East Side as the backdrop of the origins of today’s Historic Blue Moon Hotel, demands its captivating story be told, where once, it was the last Tenement on Orchard Street, has been meticulously restored by artist and developer Randy Settenbrino. He had the vision and fortitude to bring the project to fruition, only because his devotion to family, history and community serves to enhance the spirit of the neighborhood’s life and times, where such showcases the lives led in real time.
Q: An award-winning project of outstanding recognition boasting major articles and prestigious accolades via National Geographic Traveler, New York Magazine Critic’s Pick, CitySearch’s Best Boutique Hotel, and Rizzoli’s Best 100 Little Hotels. What was most pleasing about this famed project?
A: The artist, wants to transform and create. Most pleasing was the transformation of a dilapidated tenement into an elegant hotel where art and history collide into elegant design. It’s most satisfying to present a genuine experience whereby patrons are transported in time and enveloped in history.
Q: “Five years of fretting over design details is an arduous journey. How does the historic Blue Moon manage to overcome the enormous task equal to a public work project without donations or grants as well as many obstacles inherent to a single Family-owned hotel?”
A: “It is the power of G-d and consistent efforts to enrich the story of the Blue Moon. The hotel now has an onsite 1930’s style bakery, cafe/restaurant wine bar, and a gift shop for patrons who want to own a piece of the Blue Moon memorabilia or a Settenbrino print, which the hotel offers to the public at https://www.bluemoon-nyc.com. Accolades and news articles help empower The Historic Blue Moon brand. However, it is patronage that grants us the capacity to continue to provide an experience of large well-appointed rooms in a deja’vu museum like setting.“
Q: How are claims that the Blue Moon venerates our immigrant ancestors’ way of life and communes the essence of their time and place substantiated?
A: “The Historic Blue Moon Hotel venerates our immigrant ancestors’ way of life and communicates the essence of their time and place." Settenbrino said. "It was not just the artist that was more sensitive but society in general.” Communication equaled craftsmanship: work was a calling and people took pride in their trade masons, blacksmiths, carpenters, milliners, and dress makers. Artisanal objects require contemplation, focus and concentration. Their products had strength, beauty, longevity; and if their belongings broke were worth repairing and often passed down. Daily life was a communion, everything had the human touch and so the interconnectedness was omnipresent. Family was sacred; husband, wife, elders, and neighbors were honored. Respect was not at a premium; most people believed in higher authority and the average person lived by those standards. People were solid in dress code and decorum, and stoically faced life’s dangers and tragedies with fortitude and resolve. There was greater spiritual communion with God and man. A viewing of the collages on display showcases the lives, lived, loved, and lost at 100 Orchard Street.”
Contact Info:
Name: Randy Settenbrino
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Organization: Blue Moon Hotel Ltd
Address: 100 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002, United States
Phone: +1-646-787-5503
Website: http://www.bluemoon-nyc.com/
Source: PressCable
Release ID: 89123745
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