INTERVIEW JORDAN MOZER
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OVERLEAF: Mozer’s designs for the Renaissance Times Square
foundry. Reference the rounded cast alloy shapes of at once, it’s a repeatable experience,” Mozer qualifies. hang from the lobby ceiling within the Times Square
the guestroom basins or the old iron bracket shapes “So when I get fascinated with white coral at South hotel. Similarly, a long standing relationship with a
used to form today’s reception desk. Market research Beach Miami (for the Royal Hotel) that gives layers to German plasterer gave Mozer the confidence to create
of the target audience appropriate to the client’s a space that are a way of respecting the customer.” A the soaring columns at East spiralled with asymmetric
expected price point was intuitive. What do they respect shown in the use of beautiful cast-aluminium curves reminiscent of tendrils of pale smoke rising
wear? Where do they meet and eat? All undertaken in basins, hand-finished with a highly polished exterior lazily from a dying fire on a still day.
an attempt to capture the Zeitgeist of Hamburg. and brushed interior, even in the public bathrooms at
East Hotel. This serves to give these spaces a sense of Although each project is unique, certain signature
Similarly at the Renaissance Times Square (Sleeper style and belonging not afterthought. rounded and sculptural forms re-appear in various
September/October 2008), Mozer picked up the X guises. Some of his furniture has found it’s way into
emblem used in the pillars, carpets and furniture “Most clients will specify a chair or wall finish. more than one project: the futuristic chairs in the
of the entrance lobby from the sleazy porn-movie We go and make them,” explains Mozer of JMA’s Yakshi’s bar at East with their hyperbolic parabola
heritage of Times Square. The hotel’s mezzanine level efforts to create unique spaces. The lobby wall at backs made of reinforced Kevlar resin were also seen
lobby now comprises three different ‘theatre’ spaces, the Renaissance Time Square is made of a series of in the Nectar bar at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. This
themselves supportive of the link to the theatre-land strips of copper. These were cut with hand shears wing back motif, based in part on the wings of the
scenery outside. Designing unrepeatable spaces makes and then bathed in acid before assembly to create rear end of a 50’s automobile, is often repeated in
them repeatable experiences for the guest. This is a unique, warm and sensual wall covering. The same Mozer’s work. Consider the bed headboards at the
music to every hotelier’s ears. “Where there are layers glassblower has been used for the last 17 years to East hotel. But look carefully because almost always
of information in a space, where you cannot ‘get it’ all create, for example, the milk and honey “drips” that there is subtle but discrete difference in the geometry
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