Harrison creative director of branding Claire Barnard explores why storytelling, flattering lighting, and intuitive wayfinding in the loo are critical to creating a cohesive guest experience.
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Accessible Design Talk: Designing for our future selves
For the first time at MEET UP London, Hotel Designs brought a live panel to the event, with Editor Sophie Harper shining a light on what the future might look like for us all and what we should consider when designing for an ageing population……
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Rooms with a pulse: Bus Palladium, Paris’s historic night club-turned-boutique stay
The Studio KO-designed hotel’s past life as a concert hall in Paris nightlife district Pigalle has played a central role in its transformation into a music-lover’s hotel.
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Design Secrets of Immersive Hotels: How the World’s Smartest Stays Pull You Into Their Story
There was a time when a great hotel meant a comfortable bed, a decent breakfast, and a reliable Wi‑Fi connection. That’s no longer enough…
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Should a Hotel Feel Like a Home?
Our columnist, Rita Konig, has stayed in her fair share of hotel rooms—and has designed some great ones herself.
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Olga Polizzi, Deputy Chairman and Director of Design at Rocco Forte Hotels
As a new chapter unfolds at The Charles Hotel in Munich, Olga Polizzi, speaks candidly about the nuances of revisiting an existing project, the value of creative partnerships, and the subtle shifts in guest expectations…
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Meet Martin Brudnizki, the Most Sought-After Man in Luxury Hospitality
Martin Brudnizki is the gilt-edged interior architect making playgrounds for the super rich. As he unveils his latest project in Hong Kong, Prestige meets the most in-demand name in luxury hospitality…
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We, As Kitsch-Lovers, Approve of OLIPOP’s New Retro-Cool Hotel Rooms
I didn’t expect the prebiotic soda brand to sweep me off my feet with a retro-themed rooms, but I’m here for it
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One of the recent trends in the hotel industry is 'decorating a swimming pool'
The swimming pool, which used to be a simple leisure space, is evolving into an immersive content space that combines media art.
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IHG Hotels & Resorts unveils innovative experiential Holiday Inn Express public space design
IHG Hotels & Resorts have revealed the future-ready Holiday Inn Express Generation 5 public space design set to attract and excite travellers and owners across Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa (EMEAA) when it’s launched later this year…
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Telephones In Hotel Bathrooms? Know Why This Vintage Luxury Has Now Run Out Of Fashion
For travelers in the 1980s and 1990s, having a telephone in a hotel bathroom was considered a hallmark of luxury. Alongside televisions above bathtubs, bathroom phones symbolised an era of opulence. Their presence in five-star hotels was a clear…
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Beyond work: how hotels are redefining the office conversion
Hotels are breathing new life into underused office spaces, turning them into multifunctional hubs that revitalise city streets and provide fresh opportunities for community engagement, writes Dexter Moren…
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Bernadotte & Kylberg unveils own-label furniture in nature-inspired Arken hotel
The design duo of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Oscar Kylberg have designed landscape-like interiors for a hotel in a Swedish nature reserve, featuring their first own-label furniture collection.
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Welcome to the luxury hotel built on top of petrol station
Staying the night above a petrol station and car wash may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect luxury break. However, forecourt owners Rahila and Danny Ahmed insist their nine-bedroom boutique hotel, built over their Gulf site in Birmingham, has…
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My night in the world’s first underground hotel
In-room aquariums and nightly light shows aren’t even the most exciting features of the subterranean InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, now starring in a new series of Amazing Hotels
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Former paper mill in Zurich transformed into Dada-style boutique hotel
The Home Hotel Zürich, a member of Design Hotels, has opened its doors, with interiors that draw on the 20th-century avant-garde art movement Dada.
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King Street Townhouse Hotel Launches World’s First ESPA Suite
King Street Townhouse, the iconic Manchester hotel, announces the opening of its brand-new ESPA Suite the ultimate sanctuary crafted in collaboration with ESPA’s 30 years of holistic spa knowledge and King Street Townhouse Hotel’s dedication to…
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'For a life without boundaries,' promise the makers of the superyacht 'Ulyssia', a planned 1,050ft (320m) vessel bigger than The Titanic that its owners say with 'transform our concept of discovery and home'…
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