Beverly Hills sure knows how to celebrate a birthday. The glamorous city turns 100 this year and to commemorate the centennial five of its most luxurious hotels each redecorated one of its suites to evoke an era from the past 100 years. Launched by the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, the initiative is called Suite 100. Members of the press got a glimpse of the glitz, along with appropriately haute bites, as a city trolley took us from hotel to hotel. Though our five-in-one viewing was a one-night-only experience, the suites will all be available for stays through the end of 2014.
The Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows
Theme: The Golden Age Inspired by Marilyn Monroe
Designer: Tihany Design
With artifacts from the estate of Marilyn Monroe-a frequent guest at the hotel-this suite is all curves, from the walls and ceilings to the furnishings.
Montage Beverly Hills
Theme: Forties Film Noir
Designer: Nina Petronzio
Push the “Press for Champagne” button in this art-deco suite and a bellman arrives promptly, bubbly in hand,
The Beverly Hilton
Theme: Stylish, Sophisticated Sixties: A Re-Imagined Revolution
Designer: Tom Ford Design
This suite plays homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and star Tippi Hedren (here with Tom Ford) was a special guest.
L’Ermitage Beverly Hill
Theme: The Era of Studio 54-Fashion and Art Collide
Designer: Ken Fulk
Andy Warhol’s silkscreens were on the walls and Ultrasuede on the platform bed in the reconceptualizing of this suite as the pied-a-terre of legendary ‘70s designer Halston.
The Peninsula Beverly Hills
Theme: The Birth of Modern Luxury
Designed by: Forchielli Glynn
Inspired by Hollywood events like the Golden Globes, Grammys and Oscars,
this suite features living-room walls covered with a photomural of red-carpet arrivals.
