MEETING…YABU PUSHELBERG


“We spoke to Ian two years ago and he told us he was working on a new project with Marriott called Edition. It felt like it was the right time for both of us.”


being in awe of what Schrager had done,” remembers Pushelberg excitedly. Fast forward a few years to when Schrager took on Miami’s South Beach working with Philippe Starck on The Delano Hotel, and Yabu Pushelberg wangled a lunch with the designer. In 2000 they got a call to collaborate on the renovation of The Shore Club but couldn’t do it. And so it continued. “A year or two later he called us again and asked us work with him on The Royalton, but we didn’t do that. It was a courting situation, we were courting him, then he was courting us. It’s tempting to be like a child in a candy store but you have to understand where your strengths are and where they’re not, what you should do and what you shouldn’t do,” he believes. “Then we spoke to Ian two years ago and he told us he was working on a new project with Marriott called Edition. It felt like it was the right time for both of us. His aesthetic had changed to a cleansing of design, there was more clarity to


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his work and he wanted to go back to his roots when he designed the Morgans Hotel with Andrée Putman.” Credited with revolutionising the hospitality


industry, Schrager’s role with Marriott is as creative consultant, to lend his vision for the Edition concept and direct the design of planned hotels in Istanbul, Mexico City, Barcelona, Bangkok, and now London in the historic Berners Hotel. According to Marriott, each hotel will function as a ‘home away from home’ or ‘office away from the office’ for leisure and business travellers, and reflect the best of the cultural and social milieu of its location and of the time. They will encompass “not only great design and true innovation, but also great personal, friendly, modern service as well as outstanding, one-of-a-kind food, beverage and entertainment offerings... all under one roof.” The Waikiki Edition, a converted 1960s hotel on Waikiki beach which famously


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