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While crafting the design for the reimagined Vanderbilt Hotel, SWOON, the studio viewed the rich history of the mansion and the iconic characters who inhabited its walls through a modern lens. We embraced the mansion’s Georgian architecture with the simplicity and honesty of American colonial design, and then layered in pieces inspired by the mansion’s namesake owner, Alfred Vanderbilt.