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A tribute to Arne Sorenson (1958 – 2021)
A tribute to Arne Sorenson (1958 – 2021)
Arne Sorenson, who for the past decade ran Marriott International, the world’s biggest hotel company, with brands including Edition, Ritz-Carlton, St Regis and Marriott, has died. His last major magazine interview was in Wallpaper’s October 2019 Issue (W 247), with his friend and Edition collaborator Ian Schrager. We republish it here in tribute
Arne Sorenson (left) and Ian Schrager, photographed at the Times Square Edition in New York, which opened in March 2019
To lose one hotel may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Yet that is what happened to Ian Schrager, the man who created the ‘boutique’ or ‘style’ hotel. In 2010, he opened The Waikiki Edition, the first of what he hoped would become a chain of hip hotels, developed and operated in partnership with the world’s biggest hotel company, Marriott International. But just weeks after the first gues