A Silk Scarf Honoring New York’s Landmark Chelsea Hotel

Zoe Pappas, a structural engineer, and her husband, the architect Nicholas Pappas, have been residing within the Chelsea Lodge for 25 years. With the lodge slated to reopen to lodge friends this fall—and a brand new documentary that options the residents (together with the Pappas) known as Dreaming Partitions: Inside The Chelsea Lodge, which screens on the Tribeca Film Festival on June 17, out in theatres July 8—its the proper time to share the spirit of New York’s landmark lodge of creativity with a shawl.

Zoe Pappas has designed a scarf based mostly on a drawing she created in 1999. The drawing depicts the Chelsea Lodge with its landmark neon signal outdoors bearing the lodge’s identify. “You should use it as a cape or a scarf,” stated Pappas.

“I admire the historical past of the constructing, the custom that it has introduced, and the connection between the 2 continents—Europe and North America,” she stated. “This scarf is a homage to the constructing, I believe that it’s an artist’s work of affection.”

The Chelsea Lodge opened in 1884, nevertheless it wasn’t till the Sixties that it grew to become a beacon of bohemian counterculture, with now-famous artists and writers creating their masterpieces inside these partitions, together with residents like Tom Wolfe, Arthur Miller, William S. Burroughs and Arthur C. Clarke. IT has been a New York Metropolis landmark since 1966.

After present process years of building, the lodge will reopen as a luxurious lodge this fall. Proper now, the constructing’s scaffolding is being taken over the course of this month, exhibiting its long-awaited restored façade after being shrouded in scaffolding for over a decade.

It began in 1999, when she needed to make a t-shirt. “Initially, the folks on the lodge didn’t wish to promote it,” stated Pappas. Down the road, there was an artwork retailer run by an Armenian household, the place she would purchase her artwork and design provides. “So that they put my t-shirt the window to promote it,” she remembers.

Now, she’s bringing it again within the type of a silk scarf, which might be bought at ZoeDesigns2022.com. “Identical to a phoenix, which I contemplate to be the Chelsea Lodge, rising out of its personal ashes,” explains Pappas. “I stated ‘okay, I’ll begin once more,’ so I produced my artwork piece of the Chelsea Lodge as a shawl.”

The lodge was constructed the identical yr as Pappas’ personal piano in her condo—1884. Every scarf comes with a leaflet that reads: “I’m the Chelsea scarf.”

It explains in detail: “I’m the Chelsea scarf, and I like to bounce! The graceful silk saving its magnificence on the fantastic music of the Waltz makes my piano its finest good friend. The piano and the constructing share the identical date of delivery. Plainly they’ve been meant to fulfill and possibly fall in love. Let’s dance whirling the headscarf within the air and celebrating the great thing about outdated and new, custom and begin of, and perpetual creativity!”

The headscarf format has been manufactured by customized neckwear firm Lindman New York for Pappas.

“My good friend Carl Rutberg at Lindman helped me with the headscarf—after I shared with Carl that every one the Chelsea balconies have the script letter “H,” as that is coming from my maiden surname Haretia, he created the border, and I used to be thrilled.”

Pappas is making a sequence of scarves. The sequence contains the headscarf of the Chelsea Lodge, whereas Pappas can be engaged on, depicting the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. The ceiling of Grand Central Station can be going to develop into a shawl.

The scarves are on the market for $150 by way of her web site Zoe Designs 2022, or by way of e mail at zoedesigns2022@gmail.com.