Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The terrace of the Long Bar & Terrace at Raffles Boston. Photography by Brandon Barré The Long Bar may not be designed to look like a Malaysian plantation with peanut shells swept from the polished bar to the floor as in the flagship Raffles in Singapore but you can still get the signature Singapore Sling at the new Raffles Boston , the company’s first property in North America. You’ll have it on the 17 th floor Sky Lobby in a gleaming, all-glass Back Bay tower instead of a whitewashed Colonial charmer but the Boston hotel is very much on brand with the company’s trademarks: sharp design, cosseting service, premium restaurants and a central location.
The ground floor lobby. Photography by Brandon Barré Beneath the first impressions of the design-the Asian black and gold color schemes, the geometric patterns and swaths of greenery-are more subtle, specific references to the city. The greenery refers to the Emerald Necklace, the 1,100 acres of public parks stretching from Back Bay to Dorchester and Jamaica Plain designed over a century ago by Frederick Law Olmstead.
The copper accents throughout the property are a nod to a prominent previous Bostonian: Paul Revere and his copper plating company. Artistic touches such as the suspensions resembling birds on the ceiling of the ground lobby and the pastel flowering branches behind bedroom headboards are delicate and reflective of the group’s Asian heritage. A Premier .