Craft House Client, The Britely, Featured in Surface Magazine
The Pendry West Hollywood is the Self-Indulgent Arrival Summer Needs
With a decadent art deco–style design by Martin Brudnizki, a private member’s club, and a fine-dining rooftop restaurant serving Shanghai lobster, the hotel is an ode to Hollywood’s golden era—and pre-pandemic good times.
By Nate Storey
“Pendry Hotels knows how to stage an arrival experience … At the Pendry West Hollywood, fun is back. It begins at check-in, where the staff encourages you to take a welcome juice infusion to the rooftop bar for a complimentary spike after sharing details of the house Cadillac or Gibson guitar available for use during your stay.
The on-site private members club, The Britely, is bathed in bubblegum pink; the subterranean boîte is a maximalist wet dream. Retro Hollywood Regency feather lamps, gold lamé pillows, and glimmering chandeliers adorn the restaurant, also helmed by Puck, and the bowling alley and live music lair in the back.
Upstairs, banana leaf plants and jade palmeral-tiger sofas appoint The Britely’s cordoned off section of the rooftop terrace, also home to Merois and the hotel’s pool lined in salmon sun loungers and sky blue scalloped chairs. “Part of our ethos is celebration and Martin really nailed it,” Lacroix says. “When people walk through this space they can’t wait to get a cocktail. It’s happy time. My biggest worry is: how many drinks can I handle a night?”