In the reception lobby, a seed exchange.
It starts in the reception lobby with a 1977 paint-and-silkscreen portrait of Powers by Warhol.
Or smoking in the reception lobby of an expensive-looking corporation (probably belonging to his dad. It's a hard life).
But this is an hotel that mixes ancient with modern, and the reception lobby, in comparison, looks almost space-age, with a vast glass ceiling above and an open view on to the breakfast room a floor below.
The hotel has retained and restored all Baron Reylof's public rooms, which function as reception, lobby, drawing room and several gorgeous Jane Austen-style function rooms up a grand spiral staircase.
Alexandra Champalimaud was tapped for guest rooms, reception, lobby, and the newly added La Prairie spa, while the Rockwell Group reconceived the restaurant and bar.
After a reception in the lobby comes a screening of Rhapsody in Blue, the 1945 Gershwin bio-pic starring Robert Alda as George, Herbert Rudley as his lyricist brother, Ira and people like Paul Whiteman, Al Jolson and Oscar Levant as themselves.
The artist Richard Tuttle, whose show will open on Nov. 10, designed a reception bridge over the lobby catalog counter.
After Miranda's White House performance, in 2009, the party had moved to a reception area in the lobby, where Miranda had discovered a d.j.j
There's not even a lobby, just a reception desk.
