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DREAM DESIGNS AT MORGANS


TIM ANDREAS, INTERIOR DESIGNER OF BANJO AD, TAKES US THROUGH HIS LATEST IMPRESSION ON THE ICONIC SANDERSON AND ST MARTINS LANE HOTELS IN LONDON


Image:St Martins Lane, London


TIM IS A QUALIFIED ARCHITECT AND INTERIOR DESIGNER. BASED IN CALIFORNIA, TIM HAS A RICH HISTORY WITH MORGANS HOTEL GROUP, WORKING ON NUMEROUS PROJECTS FOR THE COMPANY INCLUDING SKY BAR AT MONDRIAN LOS ANGELES AND SHORE CLUB SOUTH BEACH, THE PENTHOUSE AT MONDRIAN LOS ANGELES AND THE RENOVATION OF THE GUESTROOMS AT DELANO SOUTH BEACH.


This spring the Sanderson and St Martins Lane hotels unveiled their newly-designed guestrooms. The new rooms epitomise high-concept design while enhancing the guest experience through comfort and functionality.


Visitors to these iconic London hotels can now bask in the beauty of the crisp, clean guestrooms and enjoy the LA/London hybrid design. Tim Andreas tells all…


56 Interior Design Today July 2014


WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO WORK IN HOTEL DESIGN? My first love is architecture. I moved to California in 1987, right after graduation from Penn State, when the Los Angeles architecture scene was really buzzing, and had the good fortune to land a job at Koning Eizenberg Architecture. What started as a two-week stint turned into eleven years. We worked on a range of custom residential and commercial projects. Working in a small office really gives you such great hands-on experience. My first foray into hotel design came through Ian Schrager Hotels. After the success of Delano in Miami Beach (which I would later go on to renovate the rooms) Ian came to West Hollywood in 1995 to renovate Mondrian. One of the aspects of hotel design that makes it attractive is that it usually takes a varied team. Whether in the US or abroad there is usually a designer, which may be an architect, interior designer, industrial designer, or


artist, and they team up with an executive architect in that city. Based on the work we had done in Los Angeles, Ian selected us to do the Mondrian. It was like a yearlong graduate school course in hotel design and development. We were really there to implement the design and make sure the finished product lived up to Philippe Starck’s vision. That’s not an easy task, but it turned out to be one that really shaped my career. In boutique hotel design, every project is really a prototype and you only have one chance to get the details right. You may build some mock-ups of special details, but you really need to consider every aspect, and weigh it against the budget as well, to achieve maximum effect. That is something Ian, Anda Andrei, his design director, and Philippe did really well. They were a well-oiled machine and they all brought a slightly different voice to the design, which made it richer. I worked on Mondrian for a year, at the site pretty much every day during construction. I even lived at the hotel for


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