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Architecture  Gares is Hall’s first hotel, a 40-room boutique hotel in Paris. “I don’t want to be a slave to one era, so there’s French Empire furniture mixed with 1970s lighting. I loved working on this so much.” Above all there’s colour. “We really went for it with the rooms; there are no white walls anywhere”. The gym has floral wallpaper and a checkerboard floor. Hall has provided furniture throughout, from mirrors to lamps and tables.  “A hotel should be an escape, another universe a fantastical experience,” he says. 

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“Good hotels are another universe that you can  escape into,” says Luke Edward Hall, whose first hotel opened in Paris late last year. “People want an experience that feels authentic, not a bland international look.” For Ciaran O’Brien of Red Deer, which created the look of Birch in Hertfordshire, being authentic is also about respecting the past. “You don’t need to rewire and rip out finishes totally, just celebrate the repair.”

Although some sketches best interior be freehand, most interior designers use computer-aided design (CAD) software for most of their drawings. Throughout the design process, interior designers often use building information modeling (BIM) software to create three-dimensional visualizations that include construction elements such as walls or roofs.

interior in partnership with her daughter Alex Polizzi of The Hotel Inspector fame, her third hotel will open in the Sussex village of Alfriston. The timber-framed Star was once a Trusthouse Forte hotel. Originating in the 13th century with 1930s and 1960s extensions, there will be 30 rooms, a restaurant and bar.  “We’ve gone a bit mad with blues and oranges in the 1960s block,” she says from her home in Sussex. “But one has to be quite brave; even in your own home, overscale rather than underscale. I might use somebody’s wallpaper but I’ll get them to scale it up. And you can have patterned wallpaper and a different coloured chair with bright velvet and use it with checks and stripes. Kit Kemp of the Firmdale Hotel group does it really well.” thepolizzicollection.com Britain's greatest boutique hotels

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David hotel architecture is committed to uncluttered rooms furnished with a Francophile’s mélange of antiques. His body of work is wide-ranging in type, yet always modern in sensibility. In 2011, he published Traditional Now: Interiors by David Kleinberg.

I like to oversee and brainstorm with our younger colleagues to create the right design concepts, hand-sketching ideas but not drawing them on the computer. Due to my experience, there’s one thing I have to do in the company, although I don’t like it, and that’s most interior architecture the cost calculations for our projects.