Linda Troeller’s new memoir, Atmosphere was recently featured in the Village Voice and the New York Times. Linda has lived at the hotel since 1994 and her book documents the period from her arrival until 2006. In an interview in Chelsea Now Linda calls her work "an artistic interpertation of the atmosphere of the Chelsea." Below is one of her beautiful moody photographs of Christo, Jean-Claude and Stanley Bard.
Christo and Jean Claude, like many of the artists in the book, wrote a love letter to the Hotel.
Dear Chelsea Hotel,
In 1964 a Paris gallerist told us that when we were going to go to NYC she said artists always stay at the Chelsea Hotel. We came for an exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery and needed to construct the storefront piece for the show in our room, as we had no money to rent a studio. Since we were from France, we weren’t sure if this was allowed so Christo would use his hand saw late at night. One of the storefronts needed a doorknob and we loved the one on our bathroom door, so we exchanged that one for one from the local hardware store. The piece is now in the collection of the Hirshorn Museum in DC.
Christo and Jean Claude, Artists
Living with Legends 
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