Thoughts of the Manner have been brewing ever since Amar Lalvani started in the hospitality business. “In a way, it feels like it’s always been in our heads,” says the executive chairman of Standard International.
The luxe 97-key property in New York’s SoHo neighborhood was envisioned by Lalvani, Standard International’s in-house design team, and Milan-based Hannes Peer Architecture as a discreet, intimate departure from the energetic, lifestyle-driven outposts comprising the Standard Hotels collection.
Just as Standard Hotels—recently acquired by Hyatt—was a gamechanging brand when it launched, Lalvani believed it was once again “time for us to do something that has never been done before,” he recalls.
Housed in hotelier Jason Pomeranc’s former Sixty hotel (a reinvention of his legendary boutique concept 60 Thompson), the Manner pays homage to the original footprint while transforming the spaces. “We wanted to do proud by SoHo and proud by him, but also reinvent what was there,” says Lalvani.
