Hospitality

Spiritual Slumber

- Mikki Brammer

Following the LINE’s Los Angeles flagship— an edgy, Sean Knibb–designed space in a stripped-down, concrete-heavy 1960s building in Korea town—the eclectic D.C. neighborhood of Adams Morgan seemed an odd change of direction for the hotel’s sophomore iteration.

Andrew Zobler, founder and CEO of Sydell Group—the creative brains behind the brand—notes that it wasn’t so much the location that mattered but the building itself. “We found an old church that was really special on multiple levels. In addition to its beauty, the scale was perfect for a hotel,” he says. “Sometimes when