RIGHT: Keynote speaker Chris Sanderson FAR RIGHT: MarcelWanders
entertained the audience in an exclusive appearance BELOW RIGHT:
Panellists debate‘Fit for Multi-Purpose’
restaurant design, took the audience on
an entertaining journey through his career
spanning three decades.“I don’t take the
credit for inventing the profession but I
pigeon-holed myself,” he said recalling the
‘AdamTihany, Restaurant Designer’ sign
hanging above his door back in the early days.
He established his own studio in 1978 and
has since created concepts for Remi in New
York, Charlie Palmer atThe Joule, andThe
Mandarin Bar in London.
Tihany’s restaurant design developed to
hotel work including the One & Only Cape
Town developed by Sol Kerzner. Based on
“our view on what contemporary CapeTown
is today”, the hotel features locally-sourced
materials, and 275 pieces of custom-made
furniture, all but one crafted in South Africa.
Fit For Multi-Purpose?
There was a consensus by industry
figures from Marriott International, Proof
Consultancy, and Conran & Partners, that
as hotel guestrooms become smaller, guests
are increasingly being driven into the public
spaces.As a result, we are seeing the reception
double up as a bar, the lobby as a lounge, The Green Issue legislation and in a bid to reduce running
and the restaurant as a business centre “In times of austerity, who cares about costs.
meaning. Panellists argued that spaces should sustainability?” asked Guy Dittrich of the Despite this, frustrations remained in
be designed as multi-use rather than multi- final panel of the day.Well, David Jerome, the challenges to achieve sustainability.
purpose with the defining difference being SeniorVice President for Corporate Social Max Bentheim’s recently completed
about creating different personalities to divide Responsibility, InterContinental Hotels Scarlet Hotel in Cornwall aimed to be fully
a space rather than a physical barrier. Group, Jeremy Blake, Senior Partner sustainable but it fell short of the mark due
RobWagemans, CEO & Creative Director, at Purcell MillerTritton, and Stephan to the transportation of materials. Recycling
Concrete Architects, shunned ‘multi-purpose’ Oberwegner, Managing Director, Max furniture and installing solar panels is one
and said that it takes a smarter designer to Bentheim do for starters. thing, but “getting the supply chain green will
create a multi-use space:“There is a concept Jerome believed that interest in take a lot more work,” stressed Blake, who’s
that you can put your make-up on, check your sustainability had not diminished with Blake tip for the future was eco-luxury.“If you
emails, brush you teeth and drink champagne suggesting that developers and owners are don’t embrace this now,” he said:“you are
all within the same square metre.” taking even more interest now because of new effectively building a derelict hotel.”
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