"As a child, I idolized my father, who was my primary influence in terms of art. Behind the front desk in the lobby was a door that led to my father’s art studio, the former ballroom of the Chelsea. Rumor had it the studio was Mark Rothko’s before it was my father’s." —Amanda Chemeche for Harper's Bazaar

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My Father’s Ghost and the Chelsea Hotel

During a childhood spent in the famed Chelsea Hotel, Amanda Chemeche learned about life, loss, and the power of art from her father, the artist George Chemeche

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