The Independent Hotel Show, taking place on 4-5 October at Olympia London, has confirmed a range of design partners for this year’s event, including an immersive showcase hotel room by Cocoon & Bauer.
Each year the show works with a number of leading designers and design studios, both to elevate its stages and features areas and to showcase the latest trends and approaches to hospitality design.
This year’s design partners are Cocoon & Bauer, Taner’s Sons and Design Command.
Teeside-based Cocoon & Bauer have designed The Inclusive Hotel Room, a showcase hotel room examining how hospitality design can cater to neurodivergent guests and create spaces that are welcoming to all.
“Small, barely noticeable touches can make a huge difference to how someone with a condition such as ADHD, Dyspraxia or Autism experiences a space,” Managing Director Peter Turner explains. “Changing the colour of the floor from the bed to the rest of the room, for example, can help with spatial awareness, while clear partitions between areas of the room can clearly signpost their function, for example a hair-drying station. You can put these ideas in place and drip feed them in and they won’t affect the overall look and feel.”
The Inclusive Hotel Room will demonstrate a number of these deceptively simple concepts, including the use of solid colours to reduce the visual overwhelm of a space and incorporating biophilic design for a natural, calming ambience.
The focus on inclusivity ties into the larger trend of wellbeing in the hotel sector, which has been an increasingly important part of hotel design and customer experience following the pandemic. Everything from lighting to materials to sound-scaping to food & drink play a unique role in the guest’s experience of a hotel, and the room is by far the epicentre of the trend.
The show’s Social Business Space, sponsored by Planet and designed by Taner’s Sons, will be hosting a number of informal, roundtable discussions for hoteliers attending the event, and the design of the space will explore the theme of sustainability and circular design.
Taner’s Sons Co-Founder Mustafa Af?aroÄlu explains: “The theme for our space is BarCODE. Playing on the idea of fast decoration. Buying more, buying cheap, replacing a few months later. We think this is opposite of what a sustainable business should do, as we all must take ownership. We are creating a morphed barcode graphic on our feature wall and creating walls that play on the randomised distancing of the bar codes.”
Design Command are bringing to life the Innovation Stage, in partnership with eviivo, and the Vision Stage, in partnership with Hotel Partner.
To explore the design innovation at Independent Hotel Show 2022, register now for your complimentary trade ticket.
The Independent Hotel Show, taking place on 4-5 October at Olympia London, has confirmed a range of design partners for this year’s event, including an immersive showcase hotel room by Cocoon & Bauer.
Each year the show works with a number of leading designers and design studios, both to elevate its stages and features areas and to showcase the latest trends and approaches to hospitality design.
This year’s design partners are Cocoon & Bauer, Taner’s Sons and Design Command.
Teeside-based Cocoon & Bauer have designed The Inclusive Hotel Room, a showcase hotel room examining how hospitality design can cater to neurodivergent guests and create spaces that are welcoming to all.
“Small, barely noticeable touches can make a huge difference to how someone with a condition such as ADHD, Dyspraxia or Autism experiences a space,” Managing Director Peter Turner explains. “Changing the colour of the floor from the bed to the rest of the room, for example, can help with spatial awareness, while clear partitions between areas of the room can clearly signpost their function, for example a hair-drying station. You can put these ideas in place and drip feed them in and they won’t affect the overall look and feel.”
The Inclusive Hotel Room will demonstrate a number of these deceptively simple concepts, including the use of solid colours to reduce the visual overwhelm of a space and incorporating biophilic design for a natural, calming ambience.
The focus on inclusivity ties into the larger trend of wellbeing in the hotel sector, which has been an increasingly important part of hotel design and customer experience following the pandemic. Everything from lighting to materials to sound-scaping to food & drink play a unique role in the guest’s experience of a hotel, and the room is by far the epicentre of the trend.
The show’s Social Business Space, sponsored by Planet and designed by Taner’s Sons, will be hosting a number of informal, roundtable discussions for hoteliers attending the event, and the design of the space will explore the theme of sustainability and circular design.
Taner’s Sons Co-Founder Mustafa Af?aroÄlu explains: “The theme for our space is BarCODE. Playing on the idea of fast decoration. Buying more, buying cheap, replacing a few months later. We think this is opposite of what a sustainable business should do, as we all must take ownership. We are creating a morphed barcode graphic on our feature wall and creating walls that play on the randomised distancing of the bar codes.”
Design Command are bringing to life the Innovation Stage, in partnership with eviivo, and the Vision Stage, in partnership with Hotel Partner.
To explore the design innovation at Independent Hotel Show 2022, register now for your complimentary trade ticket.
