Level: Advanced
Dates: 20 – 30 July 2010  
Hours: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Course Language: English or Italian with simultaneous translation into English
Cost: 1100 euro + VAT

Who is the course addressed to?
Designers – architects – interior designer - students in related design fields.



Hotel Design is a course aiming at thoroughly examining and expanding the potential of the hotel and accommodation industry in all its aspects. By drawing on contribution of designers, hotel managers, real estate and specialized businesses, it provides valuable insights into the most innovative and successful structures of the industry: city hotels, resorts, spas and wellness centres. This will enable the hotel designer to combine the esthetical competences of the latest interior design trends with concrete and specific operational tools, thanks to involvement of the most important brands in the sectors of furniture, contracts, lighting, upholstery and textiles.Interior Design for the Hotels

Objective
Examining and expanding the potential of the hotel and accommodation industry in all its aspects

Methodology
Lectures, visits, workshop

Contents:
Hotel design materials and trends, design for hotels case histories, spa design

Course Leader: Antonella Dedini

Course and Project Leader: Guendalina Di Lorenzo
Guendalina Di Lorenzo, Architect, London based from 1997 to 2000, she designed hotels and restaurant interiors, office spaces and fashion showrooms among her clients Hilton Hotel, Channel 4 tv and Vivienne Westwood. In 2000 she joined Ettore Sottsass in Milan designing and supervising home, leasure, office and retail interiors across europe and us. In 2003 she established her own practise in Milan. Theatre set designer and architecture free lance journalist for magazines (Abitare, Panorama) and publishers (Mondadori, Vallecchi, Foschi). Her work has been published by Domus, Abitare, Interni in 2005 she launched her furniture and fabric collection at Milan Furniture Fair and established her partnership with Ondine De la Feld. De la Feld_Di Lorenzo architetti associati studio focuses on the relationship between interior design and contemporary art.