Echoes in the Chelsea Hotel; growing up in the most famous 'artists in residence' hotel

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I get the quickening every time I read about the Chelsea Hotel. I fell in love with it, its creative chaos and controversy, whilst reading Patti Smith’s Just Kids. The infamous ‘artists in residence’ hotel has been under construction since 2011 and only 50 of the 300 rooms are filled. Amanda Chemeche lives here with her elderly artist father, who moved in back in the 70’s! Due to Covid19 and the need to self-isolate, they hardly see each other and communicate by email between rooms. She calls the hotel ‘a ghost town’ and stepping between the lobby and the ghost city beyond, ‘fractally destabilizing, a strange, haunting series of echoes’. Have a quiet meander through the hollowed bohemian palace here. It’s a whole mood.