Dreaming of Hotels: Light Sleep is unveiled for May Design Series 2014
For those who can’t wait until November for Sleep, Light Sleep will take place on 19 May during May Design Series, which will feature five distinct sectors: The Furniture Show, Lighting, Décor, Kitchen + Bathroom and DX.
As part of the show’s Conversation Series, three sessions will explore hospitality design with panellists drawn from the industry’s top movers and will be moderated by Guy Dittrich.
Starting-off the show at 3:15pm is the topic Trending Hotel Design. Chris Webb, Senior Director Interior Design, Hilton Worldwide; Anita Rosato, Principal, Anita Rosato Interior Design; and Paul Bevis, MD, Bevis Design Associates will investigate the notion of hotels as a laboratory for design. The panel will look at the latest trends within the wide-ranging remit of hospitality design, for example micro-hotels and all-suite hotels, and discuss how the experts are managing and shaping them.
Hotels, the Design Catalyst, at 4:00pm, will examine the crossover between the retail, restaurant, bar, cultural and educational design sectors. The parallels between hospitality and residential design are clear, with the blurring of work and leisure in today’s hotel lobby and lounge now being seen in the office environment. Fiona Thompson, Principal, Richmond International; Rab Bennetts, Principal, Bennetts Associates; Rachel Johnson, Associate Vice President Studio Director – London, Wimberly Interiors; and Ken Mackay, Senior Partner, Mackay Partners will reveal what inspiration specialist hospitality designers derive from other industries, and how studios adapt their experience from other sectors for the benefit of their hotel work.
Wrapping up at 4:50pm will be a keynote presentation entitled The Value of Design, during which Marco Nijhof, CEO of yoo Hotels, will chat with Guy Dittrich about the real impact that results from the massive investment hoteliers and hotel owners make in good design.
