Eleven Madison Park’s Aspen Pop-Up Better Have Fancy Lodge Decor

The team behind NYC’s tony Eleven Madison Park does not vacation like you do. For the past two summers, restaurateur Will Guidara and chef Daniel Humm took over a beach house in the East Hamptons for an exclusive pop-up deemed EMP Summer House, where the all-white interior, Adirondack chairs, and barside copper flamingos gave off extreme summer vibes.

Now, the duo are promising to “make it nice” during a pop-up in Aspen, Colorado: EMP Winter House will debut next month at Chef’s Club at the St. Regis Aspen Resort, serving a Swiss-inspired menu exclusively to American Express cardholders. There will be a “yurt village,” featuring speciality made yurts from Oregon and a unique service system: “From the yurts, guests can summon servers by flipping on the Christmas lights crowning the top of each structure,” as the Wall Street Journal reports. There will be après-ski thermoses of bone broth — for the table, naturally — for $28. There will be copious amounts of truffles and caviar, listed on the menu under a section dubbed “Black Diamond.”

And crucially, there will be endless opportunities for cozy, chalet-adjacent decor. It’s unclear what the interiors will look like just yet, but below, a list of some items you might find in EMP Winter House — which you can now totally recreate in your own fancy yurt.

Courtesy Restoration Hardware

• This chandelier, featuring “naturally shed elk antlers cast in resin” — in either natural or “sun-bleached” — is literally called an “Aspen Antler Chandelier,” a missed opportunity to call them “chantleirs.” $2,895

• Sturdy-looking “chalet armchairs” that rival their summer counterpart, the Adirondack. They’re currently sold out, but get on the waitlist to shell out $1,305 apiece.

• Shimmering gold pinecone salt and pepper shakers which, at $495 for the set, keep the con in conifers.

• Beanbags encased in lamb’s wool: peak cozy, and also round, just like yurts. $839 to $1,119

• Throws made from Suri alpaca fur, which admittedly looks exceptionally fluffy. $1,189 to $1,359 each

• Hand-knit “chalet cable throw pillows” made from baby alpaca. $495 each

• An wooden ice bucket with a pewter elk attached to the front; I am screaming. $305

• A pewter stag butter dish. Per its product description: “this magnificent elk tips its head back in anticipation of being lifted up and used.” $204

• No chalet is complete with an involved Black Forest cuckoo clock. $1,719

• Antique Canadian snowshoes from the 1950s, a necessity for chalet vibes. A steal, perhaps, at roughly $130 per shoe.

• Antique painted skis! Price is “email for details” so probably $$$

• Strings of fake icicles, much less deadly than real icicles. $160 for six icicles

Best yurt ever. Go forth and decorate.

• Eleven Madison Park’s Colorado Pop-Up Starts Next Month [Eater Denver]
• Eleven Madison Park Heads West [WSJ]