While some people have a fetish for rubber or spandex, here at Gunpowder we have a filthy fetish for luxurious hotels. We’re not ashamed to admit it; that’s just the way it is. Indeed, there are lots of luxurious hotels out there to feed our addiction, as there are copious amounts of cocaine and strippers for drug-and sex-addicts, but our love of amazing accommodations has got us into serious trouble in the past. In fact, we were banned completely from the Beverly Hills Hotel when the cleaning lady caught us stuffing a particularly expensive bedside lamp into our Louis Vuitton suitcase. As you’d expect, check-out turned to chuck-out. Fortunately, we won’t need to beg them to let us back in during our jaunt to LA this summer thanks to the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills. Built along La Cienega Boulevard, the site of the old Le Meridien hotel, SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills is one of the city’s most anticipated hotel openings. Admittedly, we were sold at hearing ‘luxury hotel’ and ‘Beverly Hills’ in the same sentence, but we almost wet our pants when we learned that designer Philippe Starck, retailer Murray Moss, fashion designer Pascal Humbert and chef Jose Andres would be collaborating on the project. That’s right, a ménage-a-quatre! Starck has been signed up to design the interiors, which will undoubtedly exhibit his irreverent French taste, while Moss will curate Bazaar, a flashy retail concept that’ll literally prise money from the hands of the rich and famous during check-in. And there’s Humert, who’ll stitch together some designer uniforms for the staff, while Andres will oversee all that goes into – and comes out of – the hotel’s kitchen. Comprising 297 well-appointed rooms, on-site spa, outdoor swimming pool and more Californian decadence than you can shake a stick at, the SLS at Beverly Hills could very well overtake the Beverly Hotels Hotel in the glamour stakes. In fact, we’d love it to! With four superstars in the bed, we can’t wait to make a reservation… although we will be booking under a fake name, just in case word has spread about the stolen lamp that sits pretty on the desk of Gunpowder HQ. 
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