Hotel Figueroa’s redesign honors women as legacy of its past
The lobby entryway at Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles on March 1, 2018.
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Santa Monica artist Alison Van Pelt portrayed the hotel’s first managing director and pioneering aviatrix Maude Bouldin, astride a motorcycle, at Hotel Figueroa. It is an 8-foot-square painting in the guest lobby.
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The bar at Hotel Figueroa.
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A push of a book on a bookshelf reveals a secret room in one of the guest rooms at Hotel Figueroa.
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The push of a book on a bookshelf in one of the guest rooms reveals this secret room at Hotel Figueroa.
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A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.
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Blu, fig-leaf wallpaper in a guest bathroom at Hotel Figueroa.
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A guest bathroom at Hotel Figueroa.
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An artist was commissioned to design the elevator doors, a different artist for each floor, at Hotel Figueroa.
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A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.
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A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.
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Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles.
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A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.
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Photographs by photographer Estevan Oriol line a hallway at Hotel Figueroa.
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A hallway at Hotel Figueroa.
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Lobby in Hotel Figueroa.
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The lobby entryway at Hotel Figueroa.
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The lobby entryway at Hotel Figueroa.
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