(Bloomberg) — “This is not your typical lobby,” Alan Faena tells me as we walk through the front doors of his highly anticipated Manhattan hotel. Inside, muralist Diego Gravinese is at work putting the finishing touches on a 105-foot-wide, 28-foot-tall installation that includes a mythical Colossal Woman pulling an unknown treasure out of an ocean vortex and a constellation of symbols hovering over clusters of quartz. A spiral staircase enrobed in gold leaf glows on one side. “It’s a cathedral,” Faena declares, replacing the apparent L-word with an embellished term he’s used at all his hotels. The Colossal Woman, he says, is creating the world. It would be easy to assume that a man whose last name is presented in towering gold letters over the entrance of a Bjarke Ingels Group-designed structure would build hospitality cathedrals to worship his perceived genius. But Faena is soft-spoken and self-effacing, even if his eccentric design ethos is very much the opposite. As such, his goal for the cathedral—and indeed many of his hotels’ nooks and crannies—is to give a hallowed space to all strata of New York City’s broader community. Faena New York, which officially opens along the High Line on West 18th Street on Sept. 9, is full of such contradictions. It’s the sexiest new hotel in New York, where hotels have become so associated with muted, serene designs and astronomical pricing that you might wonder where all the city’s artists have disappeared to. It’s loud and eccentric and just a little bit tacky—in that Bezos-esque, fit-for-Vogue kind of way. It’s cheeky and sultry in a way that’s reminiscent of the Standard, High Line, whose floor-to-ceiling windows turned guests into exhibitionists and pedestrians into voyeurs. And it’s unapologetically energetic, as if shaking New York out of its post-Covid tendency for early-bird dinners and back to its no-sleep reputation. Although the hotel is decked out wildly in animal print, it’s still somehow aesthetically restrained (by Faena standards, anyway). It’s both expensive, with 120 rooms that start at $1,260, and egalitarian, with a significant commitment to public art in a plaza on the ground level and a 40-foot-long, neon yellow Keith Haring mural on the second floor. (The painting, part of the Montreux Jazz Festival works Haring produced in 1983, is an obvious follow-up to Damien Hirst’s monumental gold mammoth skeleton encased in glass at the Faena Miami Beach.) Faena’s signatures are everywhere. Take the second-floor Living Room lounge and bar, where the Haring mural appears. The seating is a mix of zebra stripes and leopard prints, the window treatments look like floor-to-ceiling silver fringe, and the gilded bases of glass coffee tables are bedecked with giant golden bugs and tree stag horns. 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