Philippe Starck, whose surreal interiors still define Miami’s Delano, is returning to South Beach to design another hotel — across the street from his original creation. The new owners of the Ritz Plaza hotel have signed Starck as their designer for a warmer feeling than the Delano’s famed white-on-white look. ‘I don’t think we’re going to go for — to use the pun — as `stark’ a design,” said Paul Makarechian, one of the developers. “It will have a little bit more of a connection with old Europe. It won’t be as modern, I guess is a way of saying it.”
Miami Herald
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Minimalism is dead in Hotel Design.
In London the Hemple Hotel which started the whole new wave of luxury hotels many years ago has been sold for only £12m. I also understand that many of the celebs who were to frequent the Starck Hotel St Martins and the Soho based Sanderson have never turned up prefering the old stalwart 5 star hotels of West London.
In Ireland hat designer Philip Tracey has apparantly been commissioned to design the inside of a new luxury costal retreat hotel called “The G”. This is more like the designer / hotel collaborations we have mentioned on PSFK in the past.
December 12th, 2004 at 5:02 pm