photo by Andy J ScottWe hope all of you can join us and the
Whynatte crew at The Clermont Lounge on Thursday night! (Non-locals, we are hard at work at that teleportation device).
Gene Kansas (property developer of The Clermont) is throwing a party in hopes to save this Atlanta institution. Gene sent out a call to all architects, creatives geniuses, bell hops, butlers, etc. to redesign a room, the lobby and/or the roof of The Clermont hotel. The design winners are to be announced at the party. Read the invite below- sounds pretty sweet, no?
For those of you not familiar with The Clermont Lounge, let's catch you up. It's Atlanta's longest continually running strip club. Now, before you get too skeeved-out (completely understandable- the AsianCajuns don't usual advertise for such things), The Clermont is a different beast than what you have in mind. The stripers are a more mature set and don't exactly look like your run-of-the-mill pole dancer (we think). It's safe to say that generally Cath and I would stay away from even kitschy strip joints, but when it involves a design competition and cocktails mixed by
our favorite people- well, we can't pass it up.
Not really into design competitions and kitschy strip clubs that hold dance parties? Well, do you guys remember us swooning over that caffeinated coffee drink Whynatte last year (see
this post)? If you have yet to try this, we think you should hightail down to the Clermont for that reason alone: drinking Whynatte.
Local bloggers, please let us know if you will be there- we'd love to meet up!
photo by Andy J ScottThis is the event we alluded to
a few post back. We thought we would share a few more of
Andy J Scott's photos of us. He's good. Real good. Check out
his other work here if you haven't already. Thanks again, Andy!
photo by Andy J ScottDown below is my redesign of the Clermont lobby. I'm good, aren't I?
photo courtesy of the New York TimesWait, you say it looks a lot like Julian Schnabel's redesign of Gramercy Park Hotel in New York circa 2006? For shame! He got all of his genius ideas from me...
In all seriousness, if I were fabulously wealthy and owned the Clermont, I would have Mr. Schnabel fly down to Atlanta
in his pajamas and have his way with the hotel.
See you Thursday!
LL