Notes

"Hotelier Sean MacPherson Takes a Personal Approach" By Megan Sullivan - February 25, 2014 < lodgingmagazine.com >

As the son of a New Zealand surfing champion, New York City hotelier and restaurateur Sean MacPherson normally spends a fair amount of time catching summer waves in Montauk, where he owns the recently expanded Crow’s Nest Inn and Restaurant, or traveling to his surf homes in Costa Rica and Mexico. But lately he’s been immersed in finishing two big hotel projects—the Parisian-influenced Marlton Hotel on West 8th Street, which opened in September and debuted its restaurant, Margaux, in early January, and The Ludlow, a 187-room property slated to open this summer on the Lower East Side. And after having a second child in December, MacPherson is eager to spend more time with his family.

References

1. The Los Angeles Times, July 10, 1994, Page 307. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-sean-k-mac... : accessed March 9, 2025), clip page for Sean K. MacPherson
2. Rachelle Jean Hruska in the New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 < ancestry.com > Marriage License Date 29 May 2011, Marriage License Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Spouse Sean Kenneth MacPherson
3. "The Men Behind Some of New York’s Most Storied Hotels" (July 9, 2024) < hospitalitydesign.com > Hotelier partners Ira Drukier, Richard Born and Sean K. MacPherson. "Born and Drukier, the visionaries propelling BD Hotels — their fathers were also partners in the real estate business —first collaborated with MacPherson in the early 2000s. .. MacPherson, Born, and Drukier never sought out careers in hospitality, but their entrees into the industry, shaped by disparate backgrounds, were serendipitous. ... MacPherson, who was a successful nightclub promoter before he decided to open his own bar and then restaurant in Los Angeles, describes his rise on the nightlife scene as an “accidental success that continued to snowball.” His critical thinking skills were informed as an only child raised primarily in Malibu, California by a single mother. A surf champion of Mexican and Scottish descent, she was the type to put the groceries in the snow when they lived in a hotel without a refrigerator in Aspen, Colorado for a short time when he was in grammar school. That boldness—plus his time spent traveling with her to places like Mexico and New Zealand—had a profound influence on MacPherson. “There is always more than one way to solve a problem. It was in my mother’s nature to do it in an unconventional way,” he points out.
4. "This Hotelier’s Rustic Montauk Retreat Is a Cross Between a Fort and a Surf Shack. It’s the antithesis of a Hamptons estate." < domino.com >
5. "Surfing Since Before He Was Born" < nytimes.com >