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Bruce Percelay, chairmen and founder of the Mount Vernon Company, appeared on WBZ-BOS (CBS) to talk about the new Revolution Hotel. 

It takes a special kind of property to reflect its location and culture, but it takes a truly interesting property to reflect its history, and then share that with guests through design. Newly opened, The Revolution Hotel in Boston not only showcases the city’s storied past through its decor and art installations but is a piece of artwork itself.

Hotels have already turned their lobbies into spaces where guests can socialize or work. Now, some properties are going one step further to cater to business travelers and professionals in general: They’ve set up WeWork-style co-working areas.

The Revolution Hotel opened its doors in Boston just weeks ago. With a website proclaiming “The Revolution will be Instagrammed,” this is the hub hotel for artists, freewheelers, and Gen X-and-unders. There’s a shot everywhere you turn.

Several Mount Vernon Company hotels received the Readers' Choice Award for Top Hotels from Condé Nast Travelers. Readers rate their top hotels in New England, outside of Boston. 21 Broad and 76 Main in Nantucket, MA and Whitehall in Camden, ME make the list. 

Walk into the almost-finished hotel at 40 Berkeley St. in the South End, and the first thing you’ll see is Martin Luther King. Then Clara Barton, John F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. These once-Bostonians are staring down on the lobby, their images part of a bright street-art-style mural on the upper walls, mixed in with a rippling American flag, the seal of the City of Boston, and an eagle. Straight ahead, back by the stairs, a column is being transformed into a sort of totem pole, festooned with telephones, sewing machines, computer mice, and other things that were invented in Massachusetts.

The Hamptons have been the summer symbol of East Coast uber-wealth for decades, but claims of overexposure and rampant social climbing are making an island 100 miles away the new favored playground of the richest 1%.

ROCKET MAN: Apparently, astronaut Drew Feustel recently touched down in Boston to attend a private welcome-home party. We’re told that the out-of-this-world explorer, who returned to Earth earlier this fall after a 191-day mission aboard the International Space Station, and his wife, speech-language pathologist Indira Feustel, marked his arrival back on solid ground at the Chestnut Hill home of their close friends Bruce Percelay, founder of The Mount Vernon Company and publisher of Nantucket Magazine, and his wife, Elisabeth.