Hotel Figueroa’s redesign honors women as legacy of its past

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.

The bar at Hotel Figueroa.

A push of a book on a bookshelf reveals a secret room in one of the guest rooms at Hotel Figueroa.

The push of a book on a bookshelf in one of the guest rooms reveals this secret room at Hotel Figueroa.

A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.

Blu, fig-leaf wallpaper in a guest bathroom at Hotel Figueroa.

A guest bathroom at Hotel Figueroa.

An artist was commissioned to design the elevator doors, a different artist for each floor, at Hotel Figueroa.

A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.

A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.

Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles.

A guest room at Hotel Figueroa.

Photographs by photographer Estevan Oriol line a hallway at Hotel Figueroa.

A hallway at Hotel Figueroa.

Lobby in Hotel Figueroa.

The lobby entryway at Hotel Figueroa.

The lobby entryway at Hotel Figueroa.