If you appreciate good design at all, you MUST STAY HERE. Marcel's loft-like apartment on the park is clean in every sense of the word. Aside maybe from the stones on the living room cabinets, no item in his place does not have a specific function. It was a pleasure being there where everything made sense. It was an especially nice and pleasing contrast to the chaotic, colorful Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush.

One thing I might have wanted to be aware of before booking is that it's a smoker's home. It's clean, for sure, but there's not much you can do to eliminate that scent once it's in every nook and cranny. Normally I'm pretty hostile to that (will request a different room in a hotel if I can detect even the slightest hint), but mainly it only hits you when you first walk in, and then you forget about it.