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Reception & Lobby

  • The Newbury Boston, All The Things, Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Khan
    All the Things, 2018
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Richard Selesnick & Nicholas Kahn
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    All the Things, 2018
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Richard Selesnick & Nicholas Kahn

    As you enter the Newbury Street entrance to the hotel, you’ll see two photographs, one on your left and one on your right. These photographs are by Kahn and Selesnick. Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have been collaborating as art makers and world builders for 30 years. They are tellers of allegorical historical fictions that include photography, costumes, painting and sculpture. These two photographs are very dream-like and present one traveler coveting possessions from her travels and another traveler walking forward into the next leg of his journey. The photograph of the female subject who is gathering beautiful objects around her is singer Amanda Palmer and the other is one of the artist himself, Nicholas Kahn.

  • The Newbury Boston, Letterfrack, Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Khan
    Letterfrack, 2018
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Richard Selesnick & Nicholas Kahn
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    Letterfrack, 2018
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Richard Selesnick & Nicholas Kahn

    As you enter the Newbury Street entrance to the hotel, you’ll see two photographs, one on your left and one on your right. These photographs are by Kahn and Selesnick. Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have been collaborating as art makers and world builders for 30 years. They are tellers of allegorical historical fictions that include photography, costumes, painting and sculpture. These two photographs are very dream-like and present one traveler coveting possessions from her travels and another traveler walking forward into the next leg of his journey. The photograph of the female subject who is gathering beautiful objects around her is singer Amanda Palmer and the other is one of the artist himself, Nicholas Kahn.

  • The Newbury Boston, Anna - Flowers, Paris, France, Francis Olschafskie
    Anna - Flowers, Paris France - 2014
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Francis Olschafskie
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    Anna - Flowers, Paris France - 2014
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Francis Olschafskie

    To the right is a photograph by Francis Olschafskie. Francis is a long time Boston-based photographer- he is also an educator who taught at MassArt. He exhibits in New York and Europe and Massachusetts. This is a photograph of a woman that is surrounded by flowers. It is the beginning of a set of three portraits that guides you through the main lobby into the Library space in the Newbury’s collection. ‘Anna’ is a very stylish and chic moment where a woman seems to be surrounded, indeed almost subsumed by the irresistible beauty of a set of flowers in an improbable composition. The photograph was taken in Paris, France and is of the photographer’s wife, Anna. Francis' photographs employ large plate glass windows and the reflections that occur in late afternoon, preferably in cities where the streets are narrow and dark and the reflections are high. He seeks out a site, finds something that is intriguing to him and then spends several hours photographing the reflections until he gets just the view that he wants.

  • The Newbury Boston, Dejeuner, Elise Ansel
    Dejeuner, 2020
    Oil on Linen
    Elise Ansel
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    Dejeuner, 2020
    Oil on Linen
    Elise Ansel

    As you go further into the lobby and approach the front desk you’ll see a stunning painting that was commissioned for the hotel by artist Elise Ansel called Dejeuner. Dejeuner considers Edward Manet’s original painting of the same name from the 1800s as a source and as a reconsideration for this painting that is made with broad gestural emotional marks. The Newbury’s Dejeuner faces the Public Garden, just as the subjects sit and have lunch in a beautiful park. Significantly, Manet’s Dejeuner was rejected by the salon (the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris) when first painted because of its radically new point of view of how female subjects were portrayed in general in painting. Manet painted his original female subjects more frankly and with an updated view of femininity at the time. With Dejeuner, The Newbury made a decision to present a painting whose inspiration captured a moment of significant change in the way women were considered in art and history.

  • The Newbury Boston, The Threshold of Uncertainty, Adrian Fernandez
    The Threshold of Uncertainty, 2017
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Adrian Fernandez
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    The Threshold of Uncertainty, 2017
    Color Photograph: Archival Pigment Print
    Adrian Fernandez

    Adrian Fernandez is a photographer and sculptor who lives and works in Cuba and regularly teaches in the US. He exhibits his artwork throughout the United States, South America and Europe and maintains a vigorous studio in Havana. Two photographs from The Threshold of Uncertainty series are part of the collection at The Newbury. Finding this work for the collection began with our desire to acknowledge the creativity and style of Newbury Street, long known as the main artery in Boston for fine arts, fashion, style, and luxury. Adrian’s relationship to beauty and his reverence to it combined with his confidence behind the camera make his photographs both iconic and very approachable. As we researched Adrian’s work we found ourselves compelled by this particular series which reaches further back to the history of symbols, icons and devotion. His examination of cultural symbols and icons is a journey to find the meaning behind these symbols and icons, including ways that they have changed dramatically. But the wonderful thing about that in the pictures is it’s done with such strength and such skill and such softness. That’s really what makes the pictures unique.

Additional Architectural Elements

Throughout The Newbury Boston, there are a number of architecturally significant elements, selected by the design team at Jeffrey Beers International, that perfectly complement the contemporary art collection.

Lobby Chandelier

This dramatic addition to The Newbury Boston hotel lobby is a hand crafted porcelain light sculpture from Andreea Braescu. The design is inspired by the leaves of the Gingko Biloba tree, creating a visual connection to The Public Garden. The ancient Gingko Biloba is found throughout the world, including here in Boston. Throughout history, the tree has thrived and is a symbol of vitality and longevity. Each individually crafted porcelain leaf is positioned to capture and reflect light, mirroring the dynamic harmony nature itself creates. Manufactured in Romania by exceptionally skilled ceramicists, porcelain, famed for its ability to create expressive and delicate shapes, features an unparalleled translucency that illuminates and warms a space.

Grand Staircase Chandelier

A spirited and energetic piece designed by Brand Van Egmond, this lighted sculpture dances through the air like sea kelp dancing through the ocean. The organic quality of the piece infuses movement and playfulness into the space while reflecting beautiful light against some of the original historic architectural details in the hotel.

Discover a well-crafted life.

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Phone: (888) 202-2916

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