{"id":18881,"date":"2010-10-19T08:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18881"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:25:16","slug":"herbie-fletcher-surfs-up-waikiki-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18881","title":{"rendered":"Herbie Fletcher Surfs Up Waikiki Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jpg.580lobbyedition.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jpg.580lobbyedition.jpg','popup','width=580,height=434,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jpg.580lobbyedition-tm.jpg\" height=\"321\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jpg.580Lobbyedition\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When world famous hotelier <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianschragercompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Schrager<\/a><\/strong> wanted art for his latest creation in Waikiki (the surf-inspired <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionhotels.com\/en-us\/#\/en-us\/hotels\/waikiki\" target=\"_blank\">Waikiki Edition<\/a><\/strong>) he looked directly to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbiefletcher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herbie Fletcher<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxist.com\/2010\/10\/15\/edition-a-new-resort-on-oahu-by-ian-schrager-george-yabu-and\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luxist.com<\/a><\/strong>. Herbie created a wall-sized installation for the hotel&#8217;s reception desk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is made from over 100 collected, broken surfboards from the sport&#8217;s best pipeline surfers: <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Irons<\/strong>, <strong>Mick Fanning<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Parkinson<\/strong>, <strong>Nathan Fletcher<\/strong>, <strong>Bruce Irons<\/strong>, and <strong>Christian Fletcher<\/strong>. It hangs above the custom-made reception desk, which has been made from sculpted plywood transformed into a natural, organic shape and finished using the techniques and traditions of local Hawaiian surfboard making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing suggests the power of Hawaiian surf more than wall full of broken boards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionhotels.com\/en-us\/#\/en-us\/hotels\/waikiki\" target=\"_blank\">Waikiki Edition<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxist.com\/2010\/10\/15\/edition-a-new-resort-on-oahu-by-ian-schrager-george-yabu-and\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luxist.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When world famous hotelier Ian Schrager wanted art for his latest creation in Waikiki (the surf-inspired Waikiki Edition) he looked directly to Herbie Fletcher, according to a story on Luxist.com. Herbie created a wall-sized installation for the hotel&#8217;s reception desk. It is made from over 100 collected, broken surfboards from the sport&#8217;s best pipeline surfers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}