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same places over and over again.” Adam Tihany should know – the globally renowned designer spends much of his time travelling the world, from luxury project to luxury project. It’s a “professional affliction”, he says, but a very enjoyable one. “If you’re going to Paris, your hotel should be Parisian; when you go to Chicago, your hotel should somehow embody the spirit of Chicago and not feel like a generic, canned luxury product,” he continues. “We always create in our projects some connection to local culture, typically through the design, through
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Heading up the redesign of The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach is only the latest instalment in a portfolio of prestige projects for Adam Tihany, including the Four Seasons Dubai, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Mandarin Oriental Geneva and a string of collaborations with top chefs. In an exclusive interview with Sarah Williams, Tihany looks back over a lustrous career and outlines a design philosophy devoted to the careful observation of human experience.
art, though detail, through scents and looks. And, in most cases, it whispers, it doesn’t shout; it’s pretty subtle, and it’s really a process of discovery.” Tihany, too, speaks softly; a gentle lilt conjuring the local cultures he has himself known intimately: New York, where he lives, having established his studio in 1978; Milan, where he studied architecture and learned to design the true Italian way; and Jerusalem, where he spent his childhood in a Hungarian- speaking household. It was in Milan, Tihany has said previously, that he was struck by how “generous and engaging the dialogue between architecture and interior design” can be, as he looked upon the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele for the first time.
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