In the fifth show of series five of DESIGN POD, sponsored by EquipHotel, Hotel Designs Editor Sophie Harper catches up with Partner and Principal at Conran and Partners, Tina Norden, about the logistics of working on global projects and creating experiential hospitality design that appeals to tourists and locals alike. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the fourth show of series five of DESIGN POD, Hotel Designs Editor Sophie Harper talks to Creative Director and Founder of NO Uniform, Nicholas Oakwell, about his career and the inspiration behind his unique clothing collections designed specifically for the hospitality sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third show of series five of DESIGN POD, Hotel Designs Editor Sophie Harper chats to Nomadic Resorts Founder, Louis Thompson, about his ideas on unconventional design and how he applies different forms of architecture and craftsmanship to some truly unique hotel projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the first show of series 5 of DESIGN POD, Hotel Designs Editor Sophie Harper talks to Tatiana Sheveleva, from Chapi Chapo Design Inc. about the art of creating timeless design within an ever-changing landscape and Tatiana tells us about some of her latest design projects... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the first show of series 5 of DESIGN POD, Hotel Designs Editor Sophie Harper talks to Jacu Strauss, Creative Director at LORE Group, about the storytelling process of hotel design to get a better understanding of how forming a narrative directly impacts the guest experience... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet John Williams, an interior designer based in Manchester who is the Founding Director of SpaceInvader Design, a studio with a single-minded purpose: to transform the way organisations use space and motivate people through their environment.With this approach, John and his team have created some impressive – and unconventional – design narratives, which Editor Hamish Kilburn explores on this episode of DESIGN POD.As well as taking a look at the people and projects that have helped to define SpaceInvader Design as a leading interior design studio, including WILDES Chester, Tribe Hotel Malta and Oddfellows on the Park Cheadle in Manchester and Stock Exchange Hotel Manchester, the episode also throws it back to Williams’ somewhat unorthodox launch into the industry as a studio owner.DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Neil Andrew, an interior designer based in London. As well as being a skilled craftsman in his trade, – and with the aim to deepen design's meaning in hospitality – Andrew and his team at Perkins&Will are on an honest and, at times, unapologetic mission to operate in a net-zero landscape. In 2022, the studio announced that it will be net-zero embodied carbon) in all its projects by 2030. Cutting through the noise somewhat, the studio launched its Net-Zero Now: Hospitality report. In it, the studio sets out a series of targets to achieve its deadline and goal. Aside from a headline-grabbing initiative, which led to the studio winning The Eco Award at The Brit List Awards 2022, Host Hamish Kilburn invited Neil onto the design podcast to explore how this social and environmental mindset is opening doors to wider opportunities.DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Alessandro Munge, the Founder of Studio Munge; a visionary, interior designer and magician when it comes to transforming spaces. The design from Toronto joins as Editor and host Hamish Kilburn’s special guest for episode 32 of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Geberit.Munge, who has helped to redefine spaces around the world, using a human-centric approach to design, first met Kilburn when he was a guest on the Travel By Design podcast, by Marriott, where the two explored the fabrics and design story inside Muir Halifax, Autograph Collection.On this episode, Kilburn's aim was to start where they left off from that meaningful episode to understand more about Munge’s approach to projects and how he has helped brands, through clever and social design, to amplify perhaps a different side of their personality. In addition to understand the architecture and design narrative of Muir, Kilburn speaks to Munge about sensitively designing EDITION’s first residences in Miami, how to effortlessly amplify a brand’s language through design and the challenges involved in designing Shangri-La’s tallest hotel within its portfolio, which will open soon in Nanning, China.DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Africa, where nature unapologetically rules! In episode 31 of DESIGN POD, Editor Hamish Kilburn meets Dereck Joubert, a wildlife photographer and filmmaker who for his whole life, while working with the likes of National Geographic, has campaigned to protect wildlife conservation in Africa.To part-fund his and his wife Beverly's selfless journey, they created Great Plains, a cluster of luxury safari camps dotted across the continent. But these aren't just any camps. Each one tells a different story through design and has its own raw personality. The considered approach at the start of each development always starts the same; with Dereck and Beverly camping out under the stars, exposed to the elements, in order to take conscious steps to ensure that each property, deliberately designed to feel 'semi-permanent' – works with and not just in nature's spectacular setting.Redefining luxury through the filmmaker's lens, Dereck and Beverly's social approach to luxury travel has resulted in Great Plains African safari experiences in Botswana, Kenya and now Zimbabwe. And it doesn't stop there. The husband-and-wife team are committed not only to wildlife conservation in Africa, but, through many charities and initiatives launched and nurtured by Dereck and Beverly themselves, they also work tirelessly to offer and promote equal opportunities for those living and working in and around their camps. This took on a whole new meaning after one incident, sensitively explored on the podcast episode, that Beverly fighting for her life in hospital.DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Pallavi Dean. She is an interior designer and architect based in Dubai. Since setting up her own studio, Roar, in 2013, Pallavi and her team have completed more than 80 projects. But here's the thing that sets Pallavi aside from other designers. She is not just designing high-end residential and commercial projects. She is also 'making it roar' in the metaverse. In this episode of DESIGN POD, the design podcast for all design and architecture enthusiasts, Pallavi joins Editor Hamish Kilburn to challenge some of the preconceptions of interior design, architecture and hospitality in the metaverse. DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Wren Loucks, a designer who 'creates spaces that stimulate wellbeing and purpose'. The interior designer, who is the CEO and Creative Director of Be-Kin, works both physically and spiritually. She joined Editor Hamish Kilburn on DESIGN POD, the design and architecture podcast, to discuss how sensory design became her narrative, and how holistic thinking in design can unlock new opportunities.Loucks joins the podcast following her involvement in Geberit's Hotel Guest Experience Report, in which Loucks examines ritual, sensory-rich experiences and social sustainability in hotel design. The award-winning designer looks at how the differences in sensorial, cognitive, and physical abilities can be catered to by designing facilities to suit a range of needs, such as wheelchair accessibility, neurodiversity and an ageing population.This episode of DESIGN POD, brought to you by Hotel Designs, is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Mark Tweedale and Michael Curry, both lighting designers from DPA Lighting, who are bringing interiors to life through innovative lighting solutions. In this episode, Hamish Kilburn, Editor of Hotel Designs and host of DESIGN POD, meets the duo to discuss circadian lighting – lighting systems designed around the proven cycles our bodies’ follow each day, based on the position, the angle, and the colour of natural sunlight at any given time. So, will circadian lighting in design change the game in wellness and hospitality, or will it break the bank and become another gimmick that will continue to be stripped out at value engineering stages of projects? Listen to explore lighting's role in design, architecture and wellness.This episode of DESIGN POD, brought to you by Hotel Designs, is sponsored by Geberit, produced by Mel Yates and hosted by Hamish Kilburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Richard Holland, Co-Founder and Director of Holland Harvey Architects, who is pioneering a new era in socially and environmentally designed buildings. Some of the studio's recent projects, explored in this episode of DESIGN POD, are, put simply, changing the game in this new era of meaningful hospitality, design and architecture.The episode, hosted by Hamish Kilburn, sponsored by Geberit and produced by Mel Yates, explores the significance of working with hospitality brands that truly understand the value in developing around communities and being environmentally aware throughout – not just using sustainability as a veneer. Richard's approach is to 'elevate the everyday', pursuing quality and authenticity and designing with narrative - and around people - to ensure design tells a meaningful story. The studio's clients, ranging from hotel brands such as Inhabit Hotels and charities like Shelter From The Storm, believe in design to strengthen their brand and achieve their goals. DESIGN POD, which drops new episodes every two weeks, is a podcast brought to you by Hotel Designs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our engines are still warm for the final episode of series 3 of DESIGN POD, where we meet Lorraine Stoutt Griffith, Director at Twelve Architects, who is responsible for bringing to life a new contemporary hospitality development at Silverstone, the home of the UK Grand Prix. Editor Hamish Kilburn, host of DESIGN POD, speaks to Griffith about how the development will position Silverstone as a luxury destination, beyond motor racing, while also discussing how the design nods to the location's celebrated and prestigious history as the home to British motor racing.This episode was sponsored by Minotti London, and powered by Hotel Designs.Stay tuned as series 4 of DESIGN POD, the podcast for all design and architecture enthusiasts will drop shortly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karen Stonely, artist, designer and the Co-Founder of SPAN Architecture, creates wellness and wellbeing experiences in all landscapes – from a retreat in Maine to a high-rise 'oasis' that is exciting, exuberant and 'something fresh and future-thinking for a hotel in the heart of the city that never sleeps'.This episode of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Minotti London and hosted by Hamish Kilburn, Editor, Hotel Designs, explores unconventional materiality, evoking unconventional sense of place and calling out 'wellwashing'. To do this, Kilburn understand's Stonely's unique approach to designing projects. "We're looking at getting the most out of a place and an experience," Stonely explains. "We want our design work to be a gift of that place that heightens your experience." One project, in particular, that cleverly captures a new and perhaps surprising meaning of wellness in its location, Times Square in Manhattan, is Hyatt Centric Times Square; a project that is best described as 'nature revealed in neon'. The other case study explored in the episode is August Moon, a completely different hospitality experience, in contrast, that is expressed as a 'secret escape from the city'; a private waterfront retreat that overlooks Maine’s Western Bay. Named by her after the Chinese mid-autumn harvest festival, the two original structures – a separate glass teahouse and a small cottage with pool – were designed by the architect, Robert Patterson in the 1960s. Other episodes in the archive that touch on wellness in design include Kilburn's interviews with Ivaylo Lefterov, Holly Hallam, Jo Littlefair, Marie Soliman and Rachel Hoolahan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, sponsored by Minotti London, we take a glimpse into the studio doors of Messana O'Rorke, specially to meet Co-Founder, Brian Messana. With permission from podcast host Jennie Becker, the Founder of the original podcast Sliding Doors, who editor Hamish Kilburn met while reviewing a hotel in the Douro Valley in Portugal, this episode was all about the 'sliding doors' moments of Brian's professional and personal life. Brian trained under architects Richard Meier, Thomas Phifer, Hani Rashid, and Peter Marino, working on projects including the Canal+ Headquarters in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and the Christian Dior Paris flagship. A graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and Columbia University, he also studied abroad, in Florence, Italy, and at Les Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. He has lectured on design and served on the faculties of several university architecture programs.Messana O'Rorke's projects span a wide spectrum of residential and commercial assignments in multiple geographies—city, suburb, mountain, desert, ocean. Yet even as they adapt their fundamental design vocabulary to address differences in program and context, Messana O’Rorke’s signature remains unmistakable in the ways they carve space and light. Their designs simultaneously foster both contemplation and invigoration, repose and action. There is no straining for theatrical effect, no tortured architectural calisthenics, simply a search for order, clarity, and beauty.The episode was recorded as the studio was unveiling its first monograph, celebrating 25 years of Brian Messana and Toby O'Rorke's labour of love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Minotti London, explores the design and hospitality concept of 'lean luxury', which Ruby Hotels is built on. Editor Hamish Kilburn speaks to Matthew Balon, Head of Design at Ruby Hotels, to understand what this looks and more importantly feels like. Balon, who joins the podcast (from bed) inside one of Ruby's many hotels around Europe, gives an insight into how he approaches each project he works on – from public areas to guestroom details and check-in experiences – so that each property shelters its own fun and quirky personality. Keep listening to hear about the pair's hilarious and somewhat awkward first encounter, when Kilburn and Balon met the morning after the night before Ruby Leni's grand opening party in Düsserldorf, Germany. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Minotti London, is all about understanding the DNA of contemporary British design. To do this, editor Hamish Kilburn welcomed Sue Timney onto the podcast to look back at some of her greatest design work, including homes for the McCartney family and transforming a former water tower in London into a modern abode, a project that was featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. Timney, who recently became a judge for The Brit List Awards 2022, also discussed her journey into product design and fashion. Following commissions from retail giants such as Marks & Spenser and House of Fraser, Kilburn wanted to understand what had to evolve in her creative process to design commercial items on a mass scale over the private and personal spaces she was accustomed to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly Hallam, Managing Director of Design LSM, put together her knowledge and experience in marketing and branding and combined it with a passion for design to help grow Design LSM. Using a 360-degree approach to design, the studio's portfolio includes The Alchemist (Manchester), Kiss The Hippo (London), JiJi (London), 100 Queen's Gate Hotel (London) and recently Heythrop Park (Oxfordshire). Hallam joined Hamish Kilburn, Editor of Hotel Designs on the podcast to discuss a new era of lifestyle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 20 of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Minotti London, will explore a hotel concept that Hotel Designs has been interested in since its early conception. Hot off delivering a Ted talk about creating the world’s first energy-positive hotel, developer and former designer and architect Ivaylo Lefterov, while on a whistle-stop tour, joined Hamish Kilburn live in the Minotti London showroom to discuss how SVART, the latest hotel set to join the Six Senses portfolio, will break down boundaries when it comes to net-zero architecture, sustainable hospitality and luxury travel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.