The Palms turned that suite into a poular celebrity hangout.
A few years ago the art historian Horace Brockington turned a suite of office cubicles assigned to Iradac into a makeshift exhibition space and initiated an ambitious program that has included surveys of the work of African-American architects, of abstract painting by black artists, and of new art from the Dominican Republic.
The art was sold, and Hassan turned the suite into a sales training center and installed company executives in modest quarters across the campus.
Others turned their suites into lei-strewn Hawaiian luaus or served beer and chili.
And in 1974 Cooke, who had owned the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings as well as the Chrysler Building, moved in as the Redskins owner, turning his suite at R.F.K. Stadium into a Sunday hangout for politicians and celebrities.
Some of that city's best tailors do a barnstorming tour across the United States, turning hotel suites into fitting rooms and taking orders for suits that run the gamut of styles and tastes (double-breasted teal silk, anyone?) that will appear on your doorstep a few weeks later.
The former lookout-turned-suite forms part of the Roero di Monteu palace.
Prokofiev's raucous suite, highly reminiscent of Stravinsky's revolutionary work, was initially commissioned as a ballet by Diaghilev but turned into a suite after the project was canceled.
At first he searched for a penthouse with a terrace, but then a friend called to tell him about this place, though the main apartment had just been turned into a suite of offices.
Here I refer you to none other than Walt Disney, who in "Fantasia" turned "The Nutcracker Suite" (the composer's series of musical lollipops from the ballet) into visions that have nothing to do with Hoffmann or children or sweets.
"The legitimate reason is supposed to be to use it to market the city," said the president of a team that built a palatial building with public money and turned over a suite to the politicians responsible.
