Stanford White designed the building at 130 West 44th Street in 1905 as the Lambs Club, a private theatrical fraternity whose members included Charlie Chaplin and Fred Astaire — a pedigree that gave The Chatwal, when it opened in 2012, one of the most storied addresses in Midtown Manhattan. thierry Despont handled the conversion, working within White's Beaux-Arts shell — its limestone colonnade, arched windows, and warm brick upper floors visible in the evening exterior — and threading 76 rooms through the landmarked structure with an Art Deco sensibility that honors the building's theatrical past without replicating it. The Lambs Club restaurant, retained as a separate venue on the ground floor, anchors the property's cultural identity as firmly as any design decision Despont made. Inside, the rooms carry a palette of sand, ivory, and deep navy, with wide-plank dark oak floors in the suites and vintage New York World's Fair posters lending the standard rooms a knowing period atmosphere rather than a period costume. Arne Jacobsen Swan chairs appear in the upper-category accommodations, their cobalt upholstery picking up the indigo throw across the bed. The Lambs Club dining room, visible in the images, deploys herringbone ebonized oak floors, red leather banquettes, polished chrome torchères, and a bar mirrored in smoky glass — Deco grammar executed with discipline. Beneath the hotel, the spa pool sits under a vaulted ceiling washed in blue light, large-format forest murals giving an unlikely stillness to a room four floors below West 44th Street.

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