Designing in the Feel of a Brand

From ASID and Hospitality.net

What is it that stimulates the sensation, "It feels good in here," when you walk into a room? Why and how can interior design support the activities that take place in a room and bring about such effects as an increase in communicativeness, greater appetite or improved brainpower…or stimulate relaxation, well-being or other moods? Hospitality expert Ines Klemm, whose work examines the ways that space, light and color are tied to a guest’s emotion and memory, offers some insights.

For the full article, please visit: http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4050443.html

Hotel Slump? Don't Tell Them (but DO add ART!)

From www.nytimes.com

Peter Steffen/European Pressphoto AgencyThe glass-paneled

499-room Yas Hotel is built over Abu Dhabi's

Formula One racetrack.

By Fred A. Bernstein

TO open a hotel in 2010 — when the industry is in its worst slump in decades — requires chutzpah.

Who’s got chutzpah? Donald Trump, for one. The Trump SoHo (www.trumpsohohotel.com), a 391-room hotel in Lower Manhattan, is expected to open this spring, towering over its low-rise neighbors with a lot of razzle-dazzle.

Oh, and Kelly Wearstler has chutzpah. The former Playboy centerfold is putting the finishing touches on the Viceroy Snowmass in Colorado and the Viceroy Anguilla in the Caribbean (www.viceroyhotelsandresorts.com). Both have the kind of glamour that have made Ms. Wearstler a top interior designer and Bravo TV star.

For the complete story, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10hotels.html?_r=1

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