In 1984, Andrée Putman designed the Morgans Hotel for Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, founders of the legendary Studio 54, considered the world’s first boutique hotel. Together, they reinvented the very idea of luxury: an intimate, measured space where sophistication emerges from simplicity. Designed on a modest budget, the hotel embodies an aesthetic revolution — refinement without ostentation, elegance rooted in precision and light. The famous black-and-white checkerboard, revealed here for the first time, became one of Andrée Putman’s most recognizable signatures, transforming a modest space into a visual manifesto that combines graphic rigor with discreet sensuality. In this pioneering décor, every detail matters: Italian granite floors, French leather club chairs, nickel-plated lamps, and custom wool rugs. The Morgans Hotel introduced a new language of hospitality, one of intimate, thoughtful luxury where experience takes precedence over display. Between shadow and light, balance and contrast, Andrée Putman created an icon: a place that is at once New York, timeless, and profoundly human.