What inspired you to renovate the LA Sunset Tower Hotel and make it what it is today?
When I bought it, it had this tacky faux-deco design from the '80s! When I saw it I thought it should feel like a younger, cooler, West Coast version of the Carlyle in NYC. Everyone told me I was crazy and that I would go bankrupt because in LA, everything had to be trendy to work. “Creating an elegant timeless hotel would never work,” they told me!!! [Photo via Facebook]
