What is a Design Hotel? Who visits Design Hotels and why do they do so?

3 responses to “What is a Design Hotel? Who visits Design Hotels and why do they do so?”

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   rslthh

   December 25, 2010 at 5:58 am | Permalink

   I think it’s something that breaks from the norm and is visually provocative, and it doesn’t fit in with the generic, commodified hotels that have been done for the last 50 years. Have you looked this up? They’re incredible! Unfortunately, unless your, in the words of Ron White – loaaaaaaaaaaaded!!! It’s not an option. Sure fun to dream though.

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   Chris A

   December 25, 2010 at 6:57 am | Permalink

   There is no official definition of what is a Design Hotel and what isn’t.

   In general use, it refers to a hotel that has invested an above-average amount in the aesthetic design of the hotel, to the point where the hotel has to charge higher rates than a comparable non-”Design” hotel in order to be profitable.

   The target market then, is people who place such a high value on the aesthetics of a hotel that they are willing to pay a premium to stay at a Design Hotel over a comparable but cheaper non-Design Hotel.

3. 
   blueone

   December 25, 2010 at 7:18 am | Permalink

   By Anthony Grant

   updated 10:46 a.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 24, 2008
   Step inside an “extreme design hotel” and you enter a designer’s dream that, for a while at least, becomes your reality. Clean white lines and copycat minimalism are no longer the makings of hip hotels; today, individualism is in. Whether in the shadow of China’s Great Wall or rising over the brick sea of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, extreme design hotels are so different they electrify the sense of place around them—and they tend to charge you up, too.

   A strict definition of the extreme design hotel may be elusive, so it helps to start with its immediate predecessor: the design hotel. Says Ian Schrager, the 61-year-old New York City native who’s widely considered a pioneer of the genre, “I think it’s something that breaks from the norm and is visually provocative, and it doesn’t fit in with the generic, commodified hotels that have been done for the last 50 years.”