VENUE 111
HYDERABAD KISMET
THE PARK GROUP OF HOTELS IS A RECOGNISED BRAND IN INDIA. WHEN OPENING A NEW HOTEL IN HYBERABAD, OWNER PRIYA PAUL WANTED TO MAKE IT EXTRA SPECIAL. SHE INVITED DAVE PARRY OF MOST TECHNICAL INDIA, AND TIM MUTTON OF BLACKSHEEP TO CREATE HER VISION.
hyderabad, india ASIA/PACIFIC/OCEANIA
The Park Group of Hotels is a collection of luxury boutique hotels, which are spread across India. Since its inception, more than 40 years ago, the Apeejay Surrendra Group has managed the Park Hotels. It was in 1967 when the first Park Hotel opened in the city of Kolkata. One of the newest members of the Park Group is located in Hyderabad. To give this Park Hotel the extra wow factor, a brand new nightclub was specified in the plans. Kismet club features superb technological design courtesy of Most Technical India combined with stunning interiors by UK based design company Blacksheep. Head of Most Technical India, Dave Parry, explained how the project evolved: “I met Priya Paul (the owner) when we installed Elevate in Delhi a few years ago. My business partner Arjun Bahl hooked us up again, halfway through my holiday in Goa, and we discussed a few ideas. Priya then put us in touch with Tim Mutton from Blacksheep and we took the ideas further and presented them to her. “She wanted a nightclub rather than the usual ‘discotheque’ type of place generally found in India and it went from there.” Dave was tasked with the challenge of designing the entire sound and lighting system for Kismet, and with an abundance of experience under his belt, Dave had plenty of ideas to transform the space into a unique clubbing experience. Tim Mutton is the Managing Director and co-founder of Blacksheep. He is fast becoming a key player in the leisure design world. Tim’s specialist knowledge of the business, practical and operational aspects of design played a vital role on the Kismet project. Tim said: “The client visited one of our projects in London - Whisky Mist at Zeta in the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane - and had a very
enjoyable experience. They checked us out, wanting to work with a well-known international designer for this prestigious project in India, and commissioned us directly.” Tim explained his brief: “Our overall aim was to deliver an internationally unique project tailored to the particular hotel fabric and which would attract both internal and external guests.” A unique design feature of this installation, which Tim put in place, is the transitional tunnel. It is created using a ceiling void, which spreads across the main bar, dancefloor area and the VIP bar. If visitors look up they can see the main hotel pool above. Dave and Tim needed to work harmoniously together to ensure the best results were achieved. The goal was to create an opulent and luxurious club, accompanied by the best sound and lighting systems available on today’s market. Dave said: “We worked with Tim from the start of the design process. He had a few ideas he wanted to incorporate and we were able to include most of them. But probably in slightly different way to what was originally envisaged. “Aside from that I was given a free hand in what I wanted to achieve
and in what products I wanted to use. We were lucky, by working with the designer from the start, it allowed us to put the speakers and lights where they were best suited, and they didn’t interfere too much with the overall look.” For the sound system, Dave selected Void Acoustics. In the main room, the system comprises four Void Air Motion revolutionary sculpted loudspeakers, four Void Stasys X low frequency, wide bandwidth loudspeakers, six Void Mycro 8 high performance installation cabinets, four Void Mycro X high efficiency subwoofers, two Void Axsys 12 high power speaker cabinets, and two Void Impulse 4 DJ monitors. “Park Hotels are really design led, and apart from sounding fantastic, Void’s speakers also look great. Blacksheep were much happier using some cool designs rather than the usual black boxes, and Priya adores the Air Motions.
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