If you manage to pull your eyes away from the views of the undulating Mystic River offered by the huge lobby lounge windows of the newly opened Delamar Mystic, look up.

In the nautical-chic space—surrounded by maps and historic portraits of Mystic movers-and-shakers—chandeliers dangle from the ceilings. Small pyramids of green glass glitter from the three-tiered beauties, evoking the deck prisms that once bounced sunlight into the darkened lower decks of 19th-century ships. Hotelier Charles Mallory dreamed up the concept, and tapped Connecticut artisan Gardner Murray of Murray Workshop to bring the vision to life.

“We’re trying to create a handshake between the centuries,” Mallory says of his new hotel’s design.

For Mallory, founder and CEO of the Stamford, Connecticut-based Delamar H

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