EdOnline

With its burnished leathers, deep off tones of blue/green and rust/orange velvet, and aged beans and ironwork, the lobby of the Blake Hotel looks the picture of a tony New England professor\'s home. But the 108-room New Haven hotel is a just-opened new-build, so its grab-and-go market, midcentury incidental pieces, and rew-edge communal table are very much of their time.