Art: March/April 2020
Lizzie’s Starlight, Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco
The details: Offering 360 views of San Francisco, the newly renovated Lizzie’s Starlight cocktail bar in the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel features a design by Seattle-based Dawson Design Associates based on rumors between the property’s namesake and Queen Elizabeth I. The firm tapped Julie Coyle Art Associates to create a portrait that imagined Elizabeth as young queen Lizzie, taking cues from “the notion that she may have been more than friends with Sir Francis Drake,” principal Julie Coyle says. The piece was created digitally, then printed on film laminated between two pieces of tempered glass, so it can be viewed from both sides.