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Ave Bradley
Creative Director and Global Senior
Vice President of Design
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, San Francisco
A newly minted graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Ave
Bradley set out for San Francisco armed with a psychology degree.
While pondering her first professional steps, she worked 15 hours
a week on the sales floor of a Pottery Barn. Buoyed by memories
of frequent after-school visits to furniture stores with her mother,
she took on the job simply "to be around things I liked."
She was a fan of the items on display, but Bradley also reveled
in the visual merchandising aspect of retail. Soon, she moved to
the corporate team, knocking on the doors of buyers and asking
if she could help with anything. "I was young and scrappy and
had hardworking Midwestern roots," she says. "That mindset has
stuck with me, and I now hire people with it because it represents
a willingness and attitude that nothing is too small or beneath
me." That tenacity snagged her a role as associate buyer, where
she had to be "creative but logical," a balance that has fueled
her career.
Bradley grew up in a small Wisconsin town, "riding my bike,
playing kick the can, and watching dragonflies." She also dreamed
Kimpton La Peer, West Hollywood, designed by
Gulla Jónsdóttir Architecture & Design
of being an artist, and her next career move plunged her even
deeper into the world of design. In 1998, she pivoted into hospitality,
joining the newly formed W Hotels brand. The sink-or-swim
moment proved to Bradley that stepping out of her comfort zone
was the right move. As director of interiors and brand development
for W, a period of six years she describes as "an irreplaceable
experience," she worked on more than 20 hotel openings.
It primed Bradley for her own consulting business working
with the likes of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which she shuttered
when Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants came calling in 2009. Now,
as creative director and global senior vice president of design for
the brand, she's spearheading its international reach, filtering
Kimpton's distinctive, playful style through the lens of different
cities in locations like Paris, Frankfurt, Taipei, and Tokyo.
For the kid who loved reading about lost cultures, befriending
future pen pals, and "staying at a hotel with a pool," Bradley's
circuitous career route has manifested the sense of adventure she long
craved: "There was this halo effect travel had on my life."
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