RECEPTION
CONTENTS
GUESTBOOK
013 RECEPTION
138. ROSITA MISSONI
014 CHECK IN The co-founder of Italian fashion house Missoni
has been instrumental in the brand’s move
016 DRAWING BOARD into the hotel world, as Creative Director for
its collaboration with the Rezidor Hotel Group.
030 MONDRIAN – MIAMI
Hotel Missoni properties are due to open in
034
Edinburgh and Kuwait later this year and a third
JORDAN MOZER
– planned for Jebel Sifah, Oman in 2012 – was
040
recently announced.
ANDREW ONRAET
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030. MARCEL WANDERS
MEXICO HOTELS
The ubiquitous Dutch designer recently
062
completed his first full scale hotel project,
CARBON – GENK
Mondrian in Miami, for Morgans Hotels Group.
066 RADISSON SAS – DURHAM
Conceived as ‘Sleeping Beauty’s Castle’, it is
a typically playful piece of Wanders design,
070 WEBSITE LAUNCH
combining contemporary baroque furnishings
with intricately patterned mosaics and the latest
072 THE ELLINGTON – LEEDS
manufacturing technologies.
076 HOTEL PULITZER – ROME
094. BARRY STERNLICHT
Sternlicht – the man who built Starwood Hotels
080 MERCURE EASTGATE
& Resorts into one of the world’s biggest hotel
groups through a series of shrewd acquisitions
085 LE BLEU – BROOKLYN
and property plays – was a guest speaker at
Deloitte’s 20th European Hotel Investment
091 CARDINGTON HOUSE Conference, where he spoke candidly about the
economic crisis, the creation of the ‘W’ brand,
094 DELOITTE EHIC and his current activities with Starwood Capital.
100 HOTEL ANALYST
040. ANDREW ONRAET
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Onraet is responsible for design and
LODGING ECONOMETRICS
development across Von Essen’s diverse portfolio
106
of luxury hotels, overseeing the renovation and
TOP DRAWER: BATHTUBS
refurbishment of a variety of stately homes,
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historic buildings and country house mansions.
OUTDOOR FURNITURE
The company is currently developing its first
123
newbuild project – Hotel Verta at London’s
SPECIFIER
Battersea Heliport.
138 CHECK OUT
RECEPTION MARCH / APRIL 2009 003
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