Out of the box: in Los Angeles, the hippest new spa comes right to your hotel-room door. (Beauty Flash).

W, May, 2003 by Jones, Rose Apodaca

For the clients of Nestspa, the new mobile spa at the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, room service is infinitely more soothing than just a midnight mac-and-cheese. Massage therapists roll a smooth, walnut box the size of a large steamer trunk into guest quarters, lifting the top to reveal an electric kettle, ministereo and fully operational hot-water sink Doors pop open to display rows of bottles filled with essential oils, tonics and medicinal remedies, and, ingeniously, a massage table slides out of a slot on the side. It's a Modernist design junkie's dream.

"Ultimately it's down to the one-on-one experience," says Jared Harler, who created Nestspa--and the box dubbed the "apothecart"--with twin brother Jason, Besides a mop of loose black curls, a...