Inside the Dream Palace. The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

HardCover. Pub Date :2014-01-30 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famous-and infamous-decadesThe Chelsea Hotel. since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884. has been an icon of American invention:. a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture. all in one astonishing building Sherill Tippins. author of the acclaimed February House. delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there. among them John Sloan. Edgar Lee Masters. Thomas Wolfe. Dylan Thomas. Arthur Miller. Allen Ginsberg. Bob Dylan. Janis Joplin. Leonard Cohen. Patti Smith. Robert Mapplethorpe .. Andy Warhol. Sam Shepard. Sid Vicious. and Dee Dee Ramone Now as legendary as the artists it has h...