Hotelification

Luxurious design concepts. High end amenities. Hospitality inspired services. A ‘user first’ approach to creating inviting spaces that deliver valuable experiences. The ‘hotelification’ of the workplace means creating an environment akin to the luxury of the hospitality sector, where consumer experience shapes the brief. This comes down to everything from refreshments, facilities and flexible room booking, to the interior design. “It’s about taking the workplace to a hospitality level.”

HOK identifies the evolving brief as a focus on highly tailored interiors designed to retain talent in a competitive labour market. For Director of Interiors Tom Polucci, design matters more than ever.

Reporting rising client requests for an ‘airport lounge’ style workplace, Tom adds: These spaces are very beautiful and hospitality focused, but also provide spaces to collaborate or tuck away alone and focus.”

As in hotel design, a sophisticated palette, impressive textures and statement lighting can be top of a designers toolkit.

What about costs?

Creating a luxury workplace need not mean breaking the budget. Choose high quality reproductions that offer the look and feel of wood veneer, timber, marble or glass, at a fraction of the cost.

EGGER’s advanced production technology results in powerful reproductions that offer cost savings on material, fabrication and labour, controlling project costs for all stages.

Forest One meets the brief at its contemporary headquarters, pairing value adding reproduction materials with statement art pieces.

Feelwood Eurodekor Faced Chipboard –1/3 of the material cost of solid oak and no ongoing maintenance such as oiling or treating required