Guide To Hotel Design
Expert tips, insights & solutions for Architects, Designers and Hoteliers
Explore a curated series of expert-led articles covering key stages of luxury hotel design – from concept to execution – offering practical tips, design trends, and solutions to help create exceptional high-end hospitality experiences.
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Meeting upholstery fire regulations
2023, 2023, Fire, Interior Design, Textiles, Upholstery
Flooring and carpets
Look backwards to the future
Spa design: fitness
Spa design: The treatment room
Spa design 1
Bar design
Colour in interiors
Using colour
Reception – make it a profit centre
Reception – make it function better
Reception – make it smiles better
Corridor design
Guest access for the less able
Bathroom layouts
Bedroom standards
Let there be light
When it comes to lighting a hotel guest bedroom, at the very least you need to meet the guest's expectations. Easier said than done.
The wardrobe
Do you remember wardrobes from childhood? Hiding places in games, smelling of moth balls or camphor. Sometimes they are a fitted part of the building fabric, sometimes a great big lump of furniture, usually lined with cedar, the timber w...
With drawer
Having dealt with three of the four main criteria in a hotel bedroom I wasn’t sure where to go next. The three so far – a good bed, a room with blackout and a room that is quiet – are so essential that they select themselves. The f...
Silence is golden
To be woken in a five star hotel at an ungodly hour in the morning is unacceptable. When an hotel hasn’t the wit to organise its bottle recycling collection at a time after breakfast one wonders whether the management has any idea of h...
Creating the darkness
LeftHaving a brilliant bed is of no significance if the hotel room is like a floodlit motorway intersection. Bedrooms need to be able to be darkened and silent, so that guests can sleep on your delightful bed without being disturbed.
Choosing your designer
LeftIn an hotel world where standards are rising and where innovation is a constant, for a brand managing the brand identity is key to survival and financial success. For an individual hotelier then creating stylish and efficient interiors i...
The role of the designer
LeftSome years ago the UK’s Design Council summoned a number of the Principals from the largest interiors practices then extant to a meeting in the Council offices. There the practice leaders were subjected to a harangue on the need for th...
What are professional fees, and how are they paid?
LeftMy grandparents on both sides of my family were farmers. It was drummed into me at an early age that money was earned and that the way to earn it was to work hard. It was also drummed into me that ‘the labourer is worthy of his hire’...
Are you sitting comfortably?
LeftThis is the first in an intended series guiding the layman through what a hotel designer is, the different sorts of designers, and how to manage the design process. It will include section on the different areas of the hotel and suggest ...
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