Kate's Lazy Meadow

Even rock stars love a good vintage motel, the kind with cabins and mod-graphic signs boasting televisions in the room, the kind that might appear in Douglas Sirk film or that you could imagine your grandfather pulling up to in his Studebaker. Well, rock star Kate Pierson of the vintage-celebrating B-52s even went so far as to buy her favorite roadside motel, renovate it and fill it with her terrific collection of mid-twentieth century modern furniture and accessories. Thus, Kate’s Lazy Meadow in upstate New York, manages to be homey, charming and the perfect place to enjoy a highball while taking in a mountain vista.

Pierson not only uses her own seriously groovy collection of mid-twentieth century stuff, she hired some of the best designers around to transform each individual room or cabin into a miniature themed oasis. Some of the rooms even have fantastic kitchens, including Room #1 with blue vintage appliances and cabinetry that suggests the past as well as a Jetsons-like future. Other rooms offer themes inspired by their heroic namesakes, such as the Annie Oakley and Sakajawia cabins.

At this point I must resist doing what every single travel writer that has ever written about Kate’s Lazy Meadow and referencing either “Love Shack” or “Roam”. Instead, I will have to say the song that goes through my head when thinking of the Lazy Meadow and its retro-chic style is “Song for a Future Generation”.