Voice | New Orleans Blog
THE MOST ADMIRED HOTELS IN THE WORLD,
LIKE THE MOST ADMIRED PEOPLE, HAVE
ONE THING IN COMMON
THEY STAND FOR SOMETHING
BANKSY Unveiling
Drawing From New Orleans’ Resilient History and in An Ode to Creative Rebels
Around the World, BANKSY’s Boy on a Life Preserver Swing to be Unveiled at the International House Hotel
Celebrating Bukowski
A yearly birthday tribute for this famed and favorite poet: Charles Bukowski.
Laughing Looie
The hotel's bar, Loa, will present an Armstrong-themed libation – an improvizational riff on a Ramos' Gin Fizz, the bon vivant's favorite New Orleans cocktail.
This drink was originally called the "New Orleans Fizz.” But, we dub ours "Laughing ‘Looie’" after a song Armstrong recorded in 1933, in the prime of this cocktail's popularity.
Secret 9
Everyone knows Louis Armstrong. Global celebrity. Louie. Satchmo. New Orleans' Favorite Son. Music icon. Revolutionized jazz. Reinvented the trumpet. Graced TIME magazine. King Zulu. Signed everything, “Red beans and ricely yours.”
S Pablo & Son
This beautiful bottle contained the finest mineral water that New Orleans based S. Pablo & Son ever produced. It bubbles up circa 1860 during America’s mineral water craze, when spa towns dotted the landscape and mineral water was believed to be a cure-all elixir.
Seasonal Fruit Granita
Before Ernest Hansen invented his ice-shaving machine in 1934 and cooled off a grateful city with sno-balls, and light years before flavors like the incandescent Blue Bubblegum, Tiger's Blood, and Rocket 88, New Orleanians indulged summer while eschewing the heat with another icy treat: granita.
Enchanted Tea Party
International House Hotel celebrates the opulent origins of Carnival, cocktail in hand
New Orleans - February 2018
February 1 - 12, 2018
5-6p daily
Saving Banksy
Breathtakingly original. Like jazz music, an improvisational riff.
Stories of sacred archetypes, heroes, and social justice. The best always holding a socially conscious mirror for us all. Raw and radiant with counterculture disdain, wit, beauty, and meaning.
Whitney Plantation
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to the subject of slavery.
Long Days of Rosé
It starts with a kiss, a rendezvous of skin and juice producing what’s likely the oldest kind of wine in the book. Sip across this watercolor sketch of red -- a vivid world canvas of rosés -- to taste the secrets a blushing complexion hides within.
#LongDaysOfRose
Sorrento Lemons
Lemons dot the liquid landscape of New Orleans, a centuries old gift from Asian merchants and agricultural explorer Frank Meyer to America. Like most of America and Martha Stewart, folks here grow Frank’s namesake “Meyer” lemons – conventional wisdom, tradition or both assuming it is the only lemon to thrive in our hot semi-tropical climate.
Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard has led a remarkable life. It is shaped by his fascination with the camera, a contagious zest for life, and his abiding love of jazz music. Notes Tony Bennett, "He's got this passion for photography ... no one photographs better than Herman Leonard." We agree.
Magdalena in a Glass
Loa offers in tribute in its untouched splendor Green Chartreuse VSOP, whose complexity mirrors the mystique of the woman who, it is believed, spent her last days in the Alpine region where 130 herbs, plants, and flowers are gathered in Spring to make this legendary liqueur.
Art Collection
THE CREATIVE ONES

Byron Buchanan Portraits in the Collection of International House
The Mind of Fall
I looked for the mind of Fall along our spacious avenues, and it was not there; in the depths of City Park and the forests on the north shore, and it was not there; past the horizon, Blue Ridge Mountains to the heart of Michigan, runways of Paris and Milan, Alta Moda in Portofino, and it was not there.
Loa's Cuban Sazerac
To take the Sazerac cocktail back to its roots would be to make it with cognac as the base spirit. To really situate it here in this place, though, you could start with the spirit that has arguably a stronger claim on this city.
Details
"God is in the Details." –Mies Van Der Rohe

At 4'9", this Baby Grand really is a baby. But it sounds so good. The Muse penthouse, overlooking the Mississippi River and French Quarter, features this ebony Hallet, Davis & Co. with plenty of space to play.
Lilith in Loa | A Songwriter Series
Lilith in Loa: A Songwriter Series
Hosted by Kathryn Rose Wood
Halloween in New Orleans
THE HANDS-DOWN BEST TIME TO VISIT NEW ORLEANS
Leave Mardi Gras to the Amatuers: Halloween in New Orleans is the hauntingly good party of the year.
BANKSY Unveiling
Drawing From New Orleans’ Resilient History and in An Ode to Creative Rebels
Around the World, BANKSY’s Boy on a Life Preserver Swing to be Unveiled at the International House Hotel
Celebrating Bukowski
A yearly birthday tribute for this famed and favorite poet: Charles Bukowski.
Laughing Looie
The hotel's bar, Loa, will present an Armstrong-themed libation – an improvizational riff on a Ramos' Gin Fizz, the bon vivant's favorite New Orleans cocktail.
This drink was originally called the "New Orleans Fizz.” But, we dub ours "Laughing ‘Looie’" after a song Armstrong recorded in 1933, in the prime of this cocktail's popularity.
Secret 9
Everyone knows Louis Armstrong. Global celebrity. Louie. Satchmo. New Orleans' Favorite Son. Music icon. Revolutionized jazz. Reinvented the trumpet. Graced TIME magazine. King Zulu. Signed everything, “Red beans and ricely yours.”
S Pablo & Son
This beautiful bottle contained the finest mineral water that New Orleans based S. Pablo & Son ever produced. It bubbles up circa 1860 during America’s mineral water craze, when spa towns dotted the landscape and mineral water was believed to be a cure-all elixir.
Seasonal Fruit Granita
Before Ernest Hansen invented his ice-shaving machine in 1934 and cooled off a grateful city with sno-balls, and light years before flavors like the incandescent Blue Bubblegum, Tiger's Blood, and Rocket 88, New Orleanians indulged summer while eschewing the heat with another icy treat: granita.
Long Days of Rosé
It starts with a kiss, a rendezvous of skin and juice producing what’s likely the oldest kind of wine in the book. Sip across this watercolor sketch of red -- a vivid world canvas of rosés -- to taste the secrets a blushing complexion hides within.
#LongDaysOfRose
Enchanted Tea Party
International House Hotel celebrates the opulent origins of Carnival, cocktail in hand
New Orleans - February 2018
February 1 - 12, 2018
5-6p daily
Saving Banksy
Breathtakingly original. Like jazz music, an improvisational riff.
Stories of sacred archetypes, heroes, and social justice. The best always holding a socially conscious mirror for us all. Raw and radiant with counterculture disdain, wit, beauty, and meaning.
Whitney Plantation
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to the subject of slavery.
Sorrento Lemons
Lemons dot the liquid landscape of New Orleans, a centuries old gift from Asian merchants and agricultural explorer Frank Meyer to America. Like most of America and Martha Stewart, folks here grow Frank’s namesake “Meyer” lemons – conventional wisdom, tradition or both assuming it is the only lemon to thrive in our hot semi-tropical climate.
Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard has led a remarkable life. It is shaped by his fascination with the camera, a contagious zest for life, and his abiding love of jazz music. Notes Tony Bennett, "He's got this passion for photography ... no one photographs better than Herman Leonard." We agree.
Magdalena in a Glass
Loa offers in tribute in its untouched splendor Green Chartreuse VSOP, whose complexity mirrors the mystique of the woman who, it is believed, spent her last days in the Alpine region where 130 herbs, plants, and flowers are gathered in Spring to make this legendary liqueur.
Art Collection
THE CREATIVE ONES

Byron Buchanan Portraits in the Collection of International House
The Mind of Fall
I looked for the mind of Fall along our spacious avenues, and it was not there; in the depths of City Park and the forests on the north shore, and it was not there; past the horizon, Blue Ridge Mountains to the heart of Michigan, runways of Paris and Milan, Alta Moda in Portofino, and it was not there.
Details
"God is in the Details." –Mies Van Der Rohe

At 4'9", this Baby Grand really is a baby. But it sounds so good. The Muse penthouse, overlooking the Mississippi River and French Quarter, features this ebony Hallet, Davis & Co. with plenty of space to play.
The Mind of Fall
I looked for the mind of Fall along our spacious avenues, and it was not there; in the depths of City Park and the forests on the north shore, and it was not there; past the horizon, Blue Ridge Mountains to the heart of Michigan, runways of Paris and Milan, Alta Moda in Portofino, and it was not there.
Loa's Cuban Sazerac
To take the Sazerac cocktail back to its roots would be to make it with cognac as the base spirit. To really situate it here in this place, though, you could start with the spirit that has arguably a stronger claim on this city.
Details
"God is in the Details." –Mies Van Der Rohe

At 4'9", this Baby Grand really is a baby. But it sounds so good. The Muse penthouse, overlooking the Mississippi River and French Quarter, features this ebony Hallet, Davis & Co. with plenty of space to play.
Lilith in Loa | A Songwriter Series
Lilith in Loa: A Songwriter Series
Hosted by Kathryn Rose Wood
Halloween in New Orleans
THE HANDS-DOWN BEST TIME TO VISIT NEW ORLEANS
Leave Mardi Gras to the Amatuers: Halloween in New Orleans is the hauntingly good party of the year.
