Hotel & Motel Management - January 7, 2008 - (Page 52) 52 Roundtable DESIGNER ROUNDTABLE Texture, contrast define top trends Q Hotel Design: Texture is becoming a more important part of design. Where does it fit in? Deborah Lloyd Forrest: Texture is very important. We’re seeing in fabrics, for example, a woven pattern as opposed to a printed flat image. Even on printed fabrics, we’re using textural backgrounds. The consumer is interested in those things, but that will swing back. It’s cyclical. Anita Degen: Texture is one of the core elements of design, just like scale, order and reflectance. It’s always been important. It just changes how you use it. It might be heavy texture today and slick tomorrow. Robert Polacek: If you take it from being a physical to an emotional aspect, the consumer may not realize they’re actually experiencing it. That’s the best way we can promote texture into a property. Jane Humzy: It is important and there are different ways of achieving an objective, whether it’s warmth or some kind of emotional experience you’re trying to create. In the furniture world, texture is very important. It will always be a part of furniture. H&MM ALL PHOTOS | JEFF HIGLEY Amanda Schafer: Especially with a brand like St. Regis. They want a lot of texture. They don’t want so many patterns and colors. They think [texture] is more luxurious. Brooke Pearsall: Texture has become more important than color right now because it’s that feeling of having something natural next to your skin or surrounding you instead of something that’s slick and plastic. Jeff Jensen: Relative to remote locations and small resorts, it brings buildings down to a personal level as opposed to a stark, cold environment. Roundtable participants The Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., hosted HOTEL DESIGN’S designer roundtables in September. The hotel, operated by Desires Hospitality and managed by Henny Schaeffer, is located in the heart of Collins Avenue, South Beach’s main drag. Discussing topics ranging from consumer trends to project budgets to sustainable design, the roundtable included [clockwise from top left]: Jeff Jensen, principal of HKS Hospitality, Dallas Anita Degen, principal of Degen & Degen Architecture and Design, Seattle Amanda Schafer, interior designer with Hirsch Bedner Associates, Atlanta Robert Polacek, creative director of The Puccini Group, San Francisco Jane Humzy of Jane Hamley Wells, Chicago Deborah Lloyd Forrest, principal of ForrestPerkins, Dallas Brooke Pearsall, managing director of design for HVS Compass, Boston Q Hotel Design: What colors are going to be hot in ’08 and ’09? What’s the next color palette we’ll see in your designs? Jeff Higley, editorial director for Questex Media Group’s HotelWorld Network, which includes HOTEL DESIGN, moderated the roundtable. Amanda Schafer: Someone in our office said they thought orange would be big. That was surprising to me. Q Hotel Design: Jane, what are you seeing from requests? Jane Humzy: Natural is still it. I was in Paris [in September] and what struck me as I was walking through the halls [of a design exhibition] were two different trends. There was a real noticeable, strong use of bolds—blacks, whites, metallics, golds and bronzes. At the other end of that extreme in the same product category was use of reclaimed logs—really rustic, earthy kind of furniture pieces and sidepieces. It’s a real contradiction taking place. See Design trends | page 54 CIRCLE NO. 116 http://www.forbesindustries.com http://www.forbesindustries.com
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