According to this Desert Sun article by Skip Descant, the Curve Hotel in Palm Springs is set to reopen as the V Palm Springs in mid-February following a $15 million renovation. The new owners, LA attorneys Brian Kabateck and Mark Geragos, hope to attract millennial-age and other discerning travelers with a setting that is stylish, casual and elegant all at once.
When it opens, the V Palm Springs will feature 140 rooms, down from The Curve’s 157 rooms, a 70-seat restaurant, a redesigned second swimming pool with a pool bar along with spa and meeting space services. It will be managed and operated by Filament Hospitality, a San Francisco-based boutique hotel management company with properties in key leisure travel destinations like Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Maui and Waikiki, Hawaii; Calistoga, Lake Tahoe, Portland, Ore.; Park City, Utah.
“It’s going to be in a 3.5 to 4 star level,” Ingrid Summerfield, president of Filament Hospitality, said of what guests can expect from the V Palm Springs’ service level.
“Like the Ace, like the Avalon, like the Colony Palms. It’s like all of those properties that are in that 3.5 to 4 star level,” she added. “It is a full-service property with restaurant and room service and pool service, and meeting and spa services.”
Guests will enter their rooms through “exotic garden courtyards.” The rooms are about 260 square feet and fit on the existing guestroom footprint, although the bathrooms have been enlarged. The larger bathrooms will feature glass showers, teak vanities with white quartz counter-tops and oil-rubbed bronze hardware.
The hotel boasts American-made decorative arts such as wall hangings, dream catchers and macrame as well as custom furnishings by Len Cotsovolos.
Both the interior and exterior spaces play homage to the native Cahuilla Indians, spiritual symbols such as feathers and snakes influence the property’s design. The hotel’s contemporary design reflects the traditional desert culture, which is re-envisioned through the use of materials like concrete, wood and fumed oak — all warmed with textures, tribal patterns and accents of colors. Calming interiors embrace earth tones and a monochromatic color palette with flavors of the Southwest.
Spring rates are expected to start at $300 per night, with introductory rates available, according to a company press release.
Please use the following link to read the article and view the accompanying photos, courtesy of The Desert Sun: http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/12/04/v-palm-springs-hotel/76807040/