I love this stunning place, which is for me not only famous for its parties.
This beautiful hotel is more than just a place to stay, it’s a place to breathe in cinematic history and experience it firsthand. Sure, there might be more luxurious accommodations in LA, but the rooms and bungalows here seem to be charged by the spirits of former inhabitants, whether they slept here for a night or for eternity.
Like Jim Belushi (who passed away in one of the Bungalows) or Jim Morrison (who jumped out one of the windows), or even Howard Hughes and Greta Garbo. Today the hotel is fresh and alive, with the stars of tomorrow hanging out in the hotel’s garden.
The french-styled hotel built in Hollywood California on Sunset Boulevard in 1927.
Chateau Marmont has been home to countless famous musicians, Hollywood stars, literary heroes, and artists of all kinds. Everyone from Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Judy Garland, to Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin, and John Frusciante have had extensive stays here.
It is modeled after an royal residence in France’s Loire Valley.
You will find it 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
As public or private as you wish – there are those in residence who are desperate to be seen and others who choose to remain anonymous. The eccentric and highly personal history of the place, its luscious rich past, its tarnished patina are all part of the charm.
This great castle on the hill is the set of a film waiting for someone to call action – this is the place where things happen. Checking in is like turning up in the middle of an ongoing party at a European country estate – there is always someone you know staying here. Mindful of its history – but always in the moment – it is contemporary as tomorrow morning – there is great comfort here. Sit in a wicker chair on the veranda writing post-cards imagining you are in an exotic outpost-far far away. Hotels are the stuff of stories, of mini dramas, a world unto themselves – we leave our lives behind and become who we want to be. Arriving at Chateau Marmont you surrender yourself to a grandi-loquent environment, an infamous hideaway and the perfect getaway in the center of one of the world’s most exciting cities.
And when the dusk of evening settles, put on some smoky jazz and get lost – sink into the aphrodisiac of the deep couches, take your paramour on an elevator ride – at night everyone comes to Chateau Marmont – this is the pageant and parade that evening brings, they come for the martini, for the sex appeal, to make the deal–naughty or nice, everyone is your darling. And after hours – there is the Bar Marmont – an outpost for the foreign correspondent you’ve become – all hotel guests are insiders – there is no velvet rope here. You are on liberty, sabbatical, furlough from your familiar life, you feel the heat, the sweat, the late night lust that is LA. This is the place you can most be yourself and it is the only grand hotel you can call home.
Thats probably the reason why Sofia Coppola filmed “Somewhere” in the Chateau Marmont. It was the setting of and served as the set for the fourth film from Sofia Coppola in 2010. In the film, the hotel lives up to much of its reputation, serving as the playground for spoiled star Johnny Marco.
Stories have not ever an happy end. Typical Hollywood? Do not know.
We House lighted a fire for the great John Belushi. Rip.
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