Category: Design

  • Hospitality Design Part 3

    the designer is in a position once ascribed to the fine artist as being the ‘elite of the servant classes’. The profession needs to address this weakness if it is to achieve the true status the press ascribes in its worship of design.

  • Hospitality Design Part 2

    More companies go bust when they take on marketing just as they realise they are in trouble. Your cashflow forecasting is a way of anticipating events enabling preventative action to be taken.. Also don’t ignore what the politicians are up to – they cause recessions.

  • Hospitality Design

    There are several patterns of payment for design fees, and I would outline these, with their advantages and disadvantages, below. I would caution all designers to get a written instruction before proceeding with any work, and caution all hotel groups to control line managers so that they do not dishonestly appoint designers to do work…

  • Design: Towards a new English vernacular?

    Defining and recognising an English vernacular style, all part of a resurgence in English national awareness as Scots want to go home. Examples from Interior design, including France and Germany