Most public life is commercialized, and most commercial spaces have a function. Not the hotel lobby. Go and be free.
of his Times Square Marriott Marquis. “Paul, there was nothing to relate to,” Portman retorted. “What am I going to relate to, Howard Johnson’s across the street?”It is true that most hotels do not exactly invite you inside. But nor, in my experience, do they refuse you—even if you haven’t come to buy anything at all. I just slip right through the churn of suitcases and lanyards and hurried staff until I find my armchair.
Since Portman’s heyday, the rise of boutique hotels and Airbnbs has given these mega-lobbies a comparatively populist appeal. There’s a parallel here to malls, which were once critically shunned for offering a tightly controlled, consumerist facsimile of the civic sphere. Now, seen through the glare of the online shopping boom, their food courts and fountains look wonderfully social.
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