Casa de Estrellas, Luxury Boutique Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Casa de Estrellas
(WebWire) 5/4/2007 2:15:24 AM

High End-Low Key, Famous Hollywood Designer, Jay Payne, Brings Charm and Style to a Top Tourist Destination, Santa Fe New Mexico.

SANTA FE, May 4th, 2007–While his previous client, Sylvester Stallone made Rocky VI, Jay Payne created Santa Fe’s newest Luxury, Boutique Hotel. “Well healed travelers demand quality service and a small, manageable Hotel is the best way to provide that”, says Payne. Dubbed ‘House of the Stars’, Casa de Estrellas is the ultimate luxury accommodation. High End – Low Key, Personalized Service is the key. Rather than calling a concierge for directions you may take your personal host with you. Instead of eating out every night, your Personal Chef will cook a delicious gourmet meal to your specifications, in your Private Villa. Your Personal Butler will unpack your luggage and make a perfect latte’, run errands or turn down the bed.

“This project is a culmination of all I learned working on celebrities homes such as Sylvestor Stallone, Whoopie Goldberg, Prince, Richard Dreyfuss” He has recreated world class restaurants Mirabelle, Clafoutis and others on Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Strip. Giving his Los Angeles home up to Kadee Strckland, star of the TV series Wedding Bells, Payne was inspired by Kadee’s work and has designed a Wedding Garden on the premises.

“The goal is to provide high end – low key service to guests that appreciate extra pampering. Santa Fe, ‘The City Different’, attracts both celebrities and business executives.” Payne’s high end-low key philosophy speaks to his guests twice. First through the inviting interior design combining mud and straw walls with ancient antiquities from around the world and second through the high end- low key type of personalized service. “Successful people need and appreciate good quality help that gets the job done and don’t get in the way.” says Payne.

“Running a hotel is an art form like anything else in life”, says Payne. “Now others will benefit from all I have learned through the years by working for the best teachers in the world. My clients. My life has been blessed and now I can share those gifts with others. I was fortunate to find a Historic property in the pulsating, heart of downtown Santa Fe. Private Villas behind a walled compound allow guests to feel part of a community, yet have complete privacy. Casa de Estrellas is an oasis inside Santa Fe’s bustling, creative community”.

About Casa de Estrellas

The hotel is unique in several ways. It offers separate, private villas instead of rooms or suites. There are only 9 bedrooms inside 6 separate buildings. Each Villa comes with its own private parking. Every Villa has a gourmet kitchen designed so a personal chef can prepare meals. There is an on site, full service salon and spa. Additional services are personal butler and personal host.

www.casadeestrellas.com

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Create A Romantic Boudoir

Five WAYS TO . . . Add Romance to the Bedroom
by Karen Klages
February 11, 2007

Let’s be clear. We’re talking decor here.

And we have been talking to someone who knows her way around the bedroom. She’s Brynne Rinderknecht, a Chicago-based stylist/production designer for Playboy Magazine. She puts together the sets for photography. She finds the great beds, the sensuous sheets, the silken pillows. Because she developed an expertise in the art of bedrooms, Rinderknecht, 28, recently started her own interior design business, focusing entirely on the bedroom (www.bedroomsbybrynne.com). And although Rinderknecht designs “from the bed out” (which means she treats the bed as the most important element in the room and everything radiates from it), we asked her to come up with five ideas for adding sensuality to this room that don’t involve buying a new bed.

1. Smoke and mirrors. Go for “antique, deteriorating mercury [glass] mirrors” and hang them across from the bed “where you can see the reflection of what’s going on, on the bed,” Rinderknecht says. The reflections from clean/clear glass mirrors tend to be “too literal and sometimes a bit intimidating.” Old, mottled mercury glass mirrors are “subtle and create mystery.”

2. Can the tube. Instead of a TV set, incorporate a “prominent piece of artwork that exudes rest, creativity and sensuality,” Rinderknecht says. In her own bedroom, she has a photograph of a twilight scene of a large field with a row of houses — twinkling with their lights on — on the horizon. “It has a very peaceful feeling,” she says.

3. Between the sheets. Treat yourself to a new set of sheets. “High thread counts can sometimes be irrelevant,” Rinderknecht says. “What matters most is that your sheets have a good hand or feel to the touch against your body” — whether you prefer a soft or crisp or satin feel. Get out there and start touching before you buy. And, yes, you can find perfectly wonderful sheets at the discount stores, Rinderknecht says.

4. Mood lighting. “Candles are always a staple for a romantic bedroom, but a significant candelabra to hold an array of aphrodisiac-scented candles like jasmine and rose, visualizes the intensity of the mood,” Rinderknecht says. Be sure to extinguish candles before you go to sleep and never put them near the bed or anything that might catch fire. Also put candles on a platter or metal plate to catch drips.

5. Toy box. “Place an elegant fabric-covered box or decorative lidded container near the bed to hold special bedroom tools like massage oils, condoms, toys and just in case of the occasional headache — aspirin,” Rinderknecht says, adding that a “sense of humor” and “play” in the bedroom is “incredibly romantic.”

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