Q&A POWERSTRIP STUDIO


end residential-style furnishings in Hotel Zoo to invite guests to move casually and make it their home. The guests will appreciate the sun and natural light pouring into the lobby.


HI: How do you blend the worlds of interiors and set design?


Dayna: Ted and I like to suggest stories through design. Our work on feature films is to convey the story with the details of the set and without relying on dialogue. As the camera pans across the set, the viewer is absorbed and becomes an inhabitant of this story’s world. While designing real environments, we have characters and guests visualised as well. For Hotel Zoo Berlin, our design is inspired by our


fictional tale of the current generation of the family who owned this residence. They are international globe trotters who cherish their heirloom furnishings and yet are unafraid of cleverly mixing the elegant pieces with modern chic for their creative, boheme, high-style lifestyle. The playful estate


proportions exude our gorgeous


family’s natural ease for luxury with a love of theatre. The guests leisurely engage.


HI: Who are your greatest design influences?


Ted: Dutch Masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Hudson River School. Dayna: Ted Berner, Jean Nouvel, Michel Gondry, Ridley Scott, Peter Zumthor.


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HI: For the St. Ermin’s Hotel in London, you took inspiration from Christopher Dresser, a visionary 19th-Century British botanist and designer, who was influential around the time the hotel was built. How important is it to spend time in the surrounding area to get “local inspirations?” Or would you prefer for a property to have no baggage and for it to be totally your vision?


Powerstrip: It is very important for us to absorb the culture of the city or island or mountain of your property. The research tells us what to avoid, and we seek the inner beauty to address. Our impressions influence our design yet the result is still our original screenplay.


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