The Ace Hotel New Orleans, designed by New York-based Roman and Williams, is slated to open in March.
Flanked by various museums and galleries in the Warehouse District—adjacent to Nolaluna, a forthcoming restaurant designed by locally based architecture firm Trapolin-Peer Architects—the historic hotel occupies a circa-1928 building that was home to Barnett’s Furniture Store until the 1970s.
The nine-story, 234-room hotel will reference its past with an Art Deco– and Dadaist-inspired design that also nods to domestic modernism and the Bloomsbury artists, like Picasso, Braque, and the Cubists.
James Beard Award-nominated chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman will lead the hotel’s signature restaurant, while Stumptown Coffee Roasters will launch a café concept.
The hotel will join existing Ace properties in Seattle, Portland, New York, Los Angeles, London, Pittsburgh, and Palm Springs.