Recently renovated by Los Angeles-based designer LM Pagano, designer of choice for Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp, the two suites reflect Paganos self-defined style: "... pristine but tattered grace, coupled with unexpected moments that radiate this city's unique sense of time and place".

The two suites, like New Orleans itself, have an ecclesiastical element woven into the design. Gali Art's wrought-ironbedside tables with cruciform feet, Erica Larken's totem-inspired cafe tables and the Pagan Cross corner console ebonized and silver-leafed, are each topped with honed Calcutta gold marble. Sharp Aquos flat-screens and iPod players are within easy reach.

A generous seating area includes a5x8 mirror, crystal chandeliers and an "LM Chair", Pagano'schair-and-a half design, upholsterd in antiqued velvet. King beds have a 7' tall oyster-colored headboards of tufted leather above white Fili D'or linens. The suites bathrooms featuredark granite vanities with oval Kallista basins and the elegant exclamation mark of a tall beveled mirror, which together subtly suggest ecclesiastical vessels. The vanity light's dramatic canopy of cascading Swarovski crystals adds just the right touch of rich ornament in an extravagant finish.