There is the finest suite in the best hotel in the city. And then there is the whole residence.
The Upper Ten is about the second thing, a category we call estate hospitality. A private estate, taken whole. Fully staffed at the highest level, gated, and yours alone for as long as you’re there. An alternative to the presidential suite, for the people who used to book the presidential suite and the rest of the floor.
I’m Ezra Glass. I founded Imari to build this category, starting with a 12,000-square-foot estate on a private acre in Georgetown, Washington D.C. The Upper Ten is where I write about the work: how estate hospitality actually functions, who it’s for, and where it’s going.
That means the whole world around it. How principals and their families travel. What a corporate offsite needs that a hotel can’t provide. How a wedding, a summit, or a state visit runs when the entire property closes around one guest list. What discretion and security require. The business of exclusivity, and why the top of the market is leaving hotels behind.
I write from experience (names and details stay private, of course), not trends pulled from a press release, but the specifics: what a security advance asks for, why a concierge in residence runs differently from a concierge at a desk, what changes when there is no one else in the building, and the changing market economics.
If you host, travel, or plan at the highest end of the market, or you’re simply curious how that end works — you’re in the right place.
Imari Georgetown is at imari.cc.
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