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What Is a Design Hotel ?

What Do We Mean by "Design Hotel"?

• In the luxury hotel world, we see the term "design hotel" a lot. But what does "design hotel" really mean? And what can you expect a design hotel to be like?
• A Design Hotel Is Notable for Its Design, Its Architecture, Interior Decoration, Furnishings. 
• A design hotel's message and primary appeal is its appearance. It's a treat for the eyes and makes you think "so cool" or just "wow." 

Why Are They So Trendy?

          1.Design Hotel Is Usually Cutting-edge & Minimalist

Design Hotels Share a Modern, Angular Approach. The usual aesthetic of a design hotel is contemporary and modern, inside and out which is a new hotel with contemporary interiors. Sometimes, a design hotel's modern look has a distinct organic edge, with raw natural materials. And sometimes, the design reflects its setting.

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                 2. Design Hotel Is One-of-a-Kind

A Design Hotel Must Be Unique. A design hotel's calling card is its one-off, unique, one-of-a-kind appearance. If its look can be found elsewhere, it's not a true design hotel. So if the hotel is part of a brand whose overall corporate design that makes the hotel nearly identical to other properties in the brand, it's not a design hotel.

But this does not mean that a design hotel cannot be part of a brand. Some luxury hotel brands are composed of boutique hotels that are all one-off in design.

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                3. Design Hotel Makes a Style Statement Inside & Out

A Design Hotel's Style Message Carries through, Indoors and Out. A notable exterior or interior is insufficient to be considered a design hotel. A luxury hotel in a glamorous tower, but with standard tan-and-silver lobby and rooms is not a design hotel. Or a hotel with expensively, trendily renovated rooms, but its building is a dated, generic monstrosity is not a design hotel.

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                4. Design Hotel Can Be the Work of a Top Architect

Often, A Design Hotel Is Designed By a Famous Architect. A design hotel is sometimes the personal vision of a "starchitect" or famed interior designer. The hotel will be an unmistakable expression his or her style. Some examples, Morpheus hotel in Macau, the effusive work of the late Zaha Hadid.

MORPHEUS HOTEL IN MACAU

Sometimes the design hotel project is the work of a designer who is sought-after for hotel interiors, and whose quicksilver style changes to suit the project. Example,  David Rockwell and his disparate designs for hotels such as The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

THE COSMOPOLITAN IN LAS VEGAS

Sometimes a design hotel's style DNA was bequeathed not by an architect but by a visionary interior designer. Example,  glam, modern "Hollywood Regency" style, the work of designer Kelly Wearstler,  Viceroy Santa Monica in L.A.

VICEROY SANTA MONICA IN LOS ANGELES

  

               5. Design Hotel Is Not Necessarily a Luxury Hotel

Luxury hotels are about poshness, comfort, and pleasing design. Nevertheless, few luxury hotels, especially those with a strong brand identity, seek to make a vigorous unique design statement. And on the other hand, many design hotels are short on creature comforts but make resounding design statements. Some examples: rugged eco-resorts, tree houses, caves, igloos, geodesic-domed tents;  hotels set in former monasteries.

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               6. Design Hotel May Be a Style Icon from Another Era

A Design Hotel Isn't Necessarily New. Some design hotels are not new. These are hotels built in past centuries and stylishly updated. Very often, this subspecies of design hotel was originally built in the high-style 20th century, either in the Art Deco or "midcentury modern" era. Examples, La Concha Resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 1959 gem (shown).

LA CONCHA RESORT IN SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO

Some design hotels are set in buildings from the 1800s or before. Their contrast of historic bones and cutting-edge style is exciting to behold. Example, Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel in London: set in a graciously proportioned late-1800s bank structure with glorious restaurant spaces.

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                7. Fashion Designers' Own Design Hotels

Nowadays, several hotel brands spotlight the design aspect of their properties with this fact: they are hotels owned by fashion design houses and sometimes clubs and restaurants itself.


             
              

The list is growing. Armani Hotel, in Milan and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the word's tallest building. An extension of the designer-branded hotel trend is individual hotel rooms "curated" (designed) by fashion designers. A few designer suites out there: Karl Lagerfeld for Schosshotel im Grunewald in Berlin, Dior, Tiffany, and Bentley's designer suites in the St. Regis New York.

KARL LAGERFELD FOR SCHOSSHOTEL IM GRUNEWALD IN BERLIN