The Inn Crowd

About the Author

Jackie Caradonio is an award-winning editor, journalist, and photographer. Her work has been published in numerous publications, including Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Bloomberg Businessweek, Town & Country, National Geographic, and many of the nation’s top newspapers, including The New York Times. She has also served as an editor on staff at Departures, Robb Report, and Travel +Leisure. She has spent the last fifteen years photographing and writing about the most exclusive hotels and resorts around the world.

Bobbi Brown and Steven D. Plofker are the hoteliers behind The George, a thirty-one-room boutique hotel in Montclair, New Jersey. Brown is a renowned makeup artist; creator, with Plofker, of two successful cosmetic brands, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road; bestselling author; sought-after speaker; and beauty industry icon. Brown made the TIME100 “Most Influential People in the World” list and was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Forbes’s “50 Over 50” Most Influential Women. She has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, the Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award. Plofker is a real estate developer, attorney, and entrepreneur. His real estate projects include historic renovations, new construction, and adaptive reuse of commercial, industrial, and residential assets in New Jersey, Florida, and New York. His entrepreneurial ventures include Centercourt, a New Jersey-based chain of tennis and indoor sports facilities, and 18 Label Studios, a film and photography studio.