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An essential round-up of where luxury hospitality brands are rolling out and why The InterContinental New York Times Square InterContinental Hotels have opened a landmark property in New York’s Time…
Over the last decade, collaborations between luxury brands and contemporary artists have gone beyond mere artistic partnerships towards a new kind of luxury branding.
PARIS – Art and fashion have always developed side by side, for fashion, like art, often gives visual expression to the cultural zeitgeist. During the 1920s, Salvador Dalí created dresses for Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiapparelli. In the 1930s, Ferragamo’s shoes commissioned designs for advertisements from Futurist painter Lucio Venna, while Gianni Versace commissioned works from artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein for the launch of his collections. Yves Saint Laurent’s vast art collection, recently auctioned at Christie’s in Paris, testified to his great love of art and revealed the influence of a variety of artists on his own designs.
In the 1980s, relationships between luxury brands and artists were advanced when Alain Dominique Perrin created the Fondation Cartier. In the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, a book marking the foundation’s 20th anniversary, Perrin says he makes “a connection between all the different sorts of arts, and luxury goods are a kind of art. Luxury goods are handicrafts of art, applied art.”
The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemparain building in Paris
An essential round-up of where luxury hospitality brands are rolling out
and why
The InterContinental New York Times Square
InterContinental Hotels have opened a landmark property in New York’s Time Square. The firm says that along with being the largest new-build hotel to open in the city since 2002, the 607-room InterContinental is also one of the most environmentally responsible hotels in the city. It will be the largest new hotel in the city to receive the LEED green building certification from the US Green Building Council.
Website: The InterContinental New York Times Square
Source: Luxuo
Langham Place Pazhou
Langham Hotels are set to operate a 488 room hotel being built adjacent to the Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Centre in China. The events-led design will include a 33,000-square foot “great room”.
Website: Langham Place Pazhou
Source: Hospitality Design
Langham Place, Beijing Capital Airport
Langham Hotels are also opening another hotel in an equally strategic location in China- Beijing Capital airport. Marketed as the first lifestyle airport hotel in Beijing, the new property is located next to the airport’s third terminal building and has 372 stylish rooms.
Website: Langham Place, Beijing Capital Airport
Source: Red Luxury
Hilton Beijing Capital Airport
Hilton have also just opened a luxury hotel in Beijing airport, so this is evidently a trend to watch. Martin Rinck, Area President Asia Pacific, Hilton Worldwide, explained the purpose of the new hotel: “Hilton Beijing Capital Airport is a dynamic property that will become a top gateway to China, with international travellers staying overnight after long-haul flights before connecting to their final destinations. The hotel will host leisure guests and business travellers from top companies who want the convenience of Terminal 3 and Hilton standards for events, business, dining and guest services."
Website: Hilton Beijing Capital Airport
Source: Luxury Insider
Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok
Siam Kempinski opened a hotel in Bangkok, adding to the city’s already extensive range of hospitality options, and showing that luxury hoteliers still feel it is worthwhile investing in established destinations. It is the group’s 64th hotel worldwide.
Website: Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok
Source: Luxury Insider
Zabeel Properties & Brad Pitt
We’ve heard of celebrities, with no design background, supposedly designing shoes, bags or other small-scale luxury goods, but Dubai-based luxury developer, Zabeel Properties, have taken the principle a step further as they unveil details of a new landmark hotel and leisure development for Dubai to be designed by LA-based architecture firm, GRAFT, whose team of design consultants for the project will include the Hollywood actor, Brad Pitt.
Website: Zabeel Properties
Source: Luxury Travel Magazine
Fairmont Peace Hotel
Following a three year restoration project, the Fairmont Peace Hotel, which first opened in 1929 has re-launched in Shanghai. Hirsch Bedener Associates worked closely with a team of designers to re-create a sense of Art Deco grandeur.
Website: Fairmont Peace Hotel
Source: Hospitality Design
