Artistic director and hotel design guru Jacques Garcia decorated the 56 rooms and suites with Moorish tiles, stuffed furniture and stylish fabrics.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta has since influenced hotel design around the world.
If you like sleek, minimalist hotel design, you will love the 156-room, five-star Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom, where rooms are decorated entirely in just three colours: white, grey or black.
The Art Nouveau structure, built in 1903, was transformed into a design hotel in 2012, showcasing granite walls lined with contemporary art, and stained glass windows that evoke a Harry Potter-like vibe.
As Vice President of Branding for Highgate Hotels, Susan Jaques oversees brand strategy for a group of over 40 properties including the Paramount Hotel in New York City and the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and takes on design projects in her role too everything from overhauling hotel lobbies to re-doing specialty suites.
What is most memorable about The Lalu--aside from its location, spa, restaurants and impeccable staff--is the design of the hotel itself.
The boutique hotel is part of the Design Hotels family, and all 39 rooms in the two Georgian townhouses are decorated in sophisticated tones of black, white and gray.
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Set in a Milanese palazzo (a grand public building) north of the city centre, the concept is a winning combination of a three-room hotel, art gallery, design boutique and cafe-restaurant, and Sozzani has since replicated its success in Tokyo and Seoul.
The building, designed by the Rockwell Group, uses a flowing design throughout the hotel -- literally, through the lights moving up and down its walls, and symbolically, as people spill out onto the street corners from its ground floor nightclub.
Design-driven details at Hotel Avance 12 include glass walls, back-lit nightstands and mosaic-clad bathrooms.
It was designed by Singaporean firm Chan Sau Yan Associates, which helmed the interior design of the four-star hotel.
Last year, the London hotel hired Lanvin's Alber Elbaz to design its tree.
But the hotel creates a peaceful environment inside with three design schemes from the ever-inventive Campana brothers, who recycle cast-offs and found objects into works of art.
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Roughly one-third complete, it will boast 200 retailers, office space, a luxury hotel and apartment complexes with different levels of design, amenities and pricing to appeal to three different segments of the market.
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Since then, the brand has continued to reconceptualise the airport hotel model, infusing comfort and functionality with sleek design.
Zeynep created Les Ottomans hotel and was the first woman in history to design a mosque: the Sakirin in Istanbul.
Mr Pritzker decided that the atrium design was so distinctive that it would make the hotel the most famous in Atlanta, a town that attracts numerous conventions.
The inside of this sleek Lindsay Newman design looks more like the lobby of the W Hotel than the usual oak-paneled clubhouse: The ceiling soars overhead and abstract paintings hang in minimalist rooms.
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Another Potterish touch: Much of the hotel furniture and decoration is an exact replica of an original design from a European castle or manor house, including the full suit of armor and two massive Italian leather chests that bedeck Mt.
Their interior design collaboration with India Mahdavi for Paris's Thoumieux hotel and its two restaurants also started with a typeface, which then grew into a motif that showed up in furniture, lighting and brass hardware.
Located in the key Connaught Place business district, the hotel is revered for its blend of Victorian, Colonial and Art Deco design touches, modern conveniences and impeccable service.
Moreover, the success of the original card design has spawned imitators from grocery club cards to transit cards to hotel key cards.
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Available at no cost for both iPhone and Android, it has a slew of new features, including hotel ratings from similar bookers, easier navigation to nearby cities, a sleeker design and more.
This four-storey hotel has 29 rooms and each individually themed floor is the creation of local leading design and architect firms.
Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.
Next time you step foot in a luxury hotel, take a minute to consider the many ways your senses are stimulated by the design, lighting, music, and, nowadays, scent.
Opening in October 2013, this Times Square hotel is set to follow in the footsteps of its affordable high-tech, high-design European counterparts.
At the historic 58-room Hotel Charleston Casa Medina in the northern barrio (neighbourhood) of Chapinero, guests enjoy classic architectural and design touches such as rich hardwood floors, hand carved doors, fireplaces and exposed stone.
Armani says that the management company for its hotel venture will be headquartered in Milan rather than Dubai, and that Mr Armani will be fully in charge of design.
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