Influx

When your brand attracts a steady stream of other brands who want to hang out with you, you know you've got something. This is the case with the Ace Hotel which has carved out a distinctive brand in the world of cookie-cutter hotel chains, by having a strong sense of itself and a clear...

With the word going crazy, it's hard to know where things might be heading, but I think I might have found a clue at The Ace Hotel in Portland. It wasn't that I stayed there, but I wandered into it after eating at its adjacent restaurant, Clyde Common (excellent, by the way). The world of hotels is...