NEW FOR 2009 - The Sleepotel - Gallery Hall

Hotel Entrance

Atelier Nini Andrade Silva is a Lisbon based interior architecture and design firm led by Chief Designer Nini Andrade Silva who became a brand of international reference. The firm’s work ranges in scale from hospitality projects and private housing to exclusive furniture and equipment and is presently engaged in ongoing projects around the world.

Chief Designer Nini Andrade Silva has created the hotel entrance at Sleepotel.

About the Sleepotel design
When prompted, this company immediately thought of leaving planet Earth and how the different surroundings would force them to leave everything that is normal. This concept will encourage the traveller to ‘feel’, as supposed to ‘see’, making the experience particularly special. 

Previous projects includes designing the Deluxe VIP area for Sensation White event among others.
Current projects all over the world in Portugal, Madeira Island, Austria, France, Green Cape, Angola, Colombia, Lybia, etc. 

For further information about Atelier Nini Andrade Silva see www.niniandradesilva.com. Telephone: +351 218 123 790 or +351 291 204 370

Spa/Gym

Spa Vision sets the standard for the future of spa design. Spas are an integral and prerequisite component of the luxury hospitality journey. The increase in popularity of spas has inspired a select group of innovative designers to create ground breaking spa equipment and furniture solutions. These designers including Arbor Vetum, HydroCo and Oakworks have joined forces with spa specialists Spa Vision to provide the most comprehensive portfolio of spa furniture and equipment available in the hospitality market.

About the Sleepotel design
Spa Vision will be showcasing designs from Arbor Vetum, Oakworks and HydroCo at The Sleep Event. Launching at The Sleepotel 2009 will be the suspense treadmill - the fusion of Spa, Wellness, Fitness and Design. This aquatic treadmill allows the user to relax, rehabilitate, rest and revitalise in the comfort of one unit, whilst using less than 20 litres of water per session. The spa themed set will incorporate different elements of the spa experience including a Treatment Zone, Hydrotherapy Area and a Relaxation Room. Free treatments will be available from experieced therapists during the event. 

Previous projects include installation of equipment and furniture  in several high profile spas in Lucknam Park Hotel, Babington House, Turnberry Resort, Mount Juliet Resort, Thermae Bath Spa, Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa, Corinthia San Gorg Hotel, The Bath Priory Hotel, Doxford Hall Hotel & Spa, Hotel Leela Mumbai, Grand Hotel Jersey, Park House, SoHo House, Hotel Leela Udaipur and The Cliff House Hotel.
Current projects include Blythswood Square, Cotswold House, Cowley Manor, Brooklands Hotel and Lime Wood Hotel. 

For further information about Spa Vision see www.spavision.co.uk. Telephone: +44 (0) 1249 716574 

Bar

Blacksheep is in the business of creating signature spaces. Founded by designers Jo Sampson and Tim Mutton (both recently named in the prestigious Courvoisier/Observer Future 500 of upcoming business stars), Blacksheep is one of London's most creative agencies, specialists in the creation of show-stopping bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels., shops and offices.

About the designers
Senior Interior Designer Mark Lieb has spent the last 15 years living in both London and Sydney, working as an interior designer.  His passion is in pushing the limits of hospitality design and he loves to sketch project concepts and investigate the key details.  His portfolio includes 2009’s Australian ‘Restaurant of the Year’ – the Rockpool Bar & Grill in Sydney.

Senior Graphic Designer Helen Gilbert joined Blacksheep in 2007 to head up the graphics team, who specialise in branding and environmental graphics. 

Architect Federico Toresi studied architecture at Kingston University before working for the past decade mainly on commercial fit-out projects for clients including Apple, BT, Disney, The Royal Bank of Scotland and the London Stock Exchange. 

Graphic Designer Jo Randall works with Helen Gilbert in Blacksheep’s graphics team. Before joining Blacksheep she worked in Ted Baker’s in-house design team and for clients including Nokia, Modottica and Classic FM.

About the Sleepotel design
Cool, sophisticated bar designs have enabled revenues to be increased through creating signature, destination spaces which attract outside custom as well as providing a valuable service for hotel guests. Blacksheep will create the ultimate milieu for meeting and socializing in this year’s bar area. This showpiece bar will embody a spirit of welcome and generosity, with an accent on making guests feel both immediately at home, but also inspired and excited. Interpreting global hospitality in a single space, offering a sense of entertainment, liberty and good will. 

Previous projects include Novotel, London Tower Bridge – a redesign of all the ground floor public spaces of Novotel’s number one UK outlet. Inamo – concept design for an interactive pan-Asian restaurant in Soho, where diners order directly from their tabletops. Hermes, Manchester – a new concession for the ultra-luxe high-end brand, for whom Blacksheep previously designed the London HQ.
Current projects include a 175-bed new-build hotel in Yaroslavl, Russia. A nightclub within a new-build hotel in Hyderabad for Park Hotels. New concept flagship stores for upmarket British brand Kent & Curwen in China and the UK. And a 3-part, new-build offer in Jeddah, comprised of a bakery, an informal cafe/dining area and destination restaurant. 

For further information about Blacksheep see www.blacksheepweb.com. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7253 6393 

Hotel Suites/Bedroom

Studio Arcibella is a Helsinki based interior design office specializing in public facilities, mainly in the hospitality industry. As clients they have major hotel chains, restaurant groups as well as independent entrepreneurs in Finland. Internationally their main focus of work has been in hotels. Studio Arcibella was founded in 1994. The design approach is international with emphasis on individualized, high quality timeless design. Their philosophy has always been to create a client-orientated design proposal that speaks to the target customer. With most of their designs they have been involved in the project in its totality. Their services are diverse and include feasibility studies, customized design,  furniture/light design and budget management when required.

Oy Vallila Interior Ab was founded in 1935 and although the Vallila textiles factory closed down in 1971 and no longer manufactures its own products, they now offer in-depth expertise in textiles through its own design service and their projects include the design and decoration of hotels, restaurants, offices and cruise ships. The company has become an all-round interior expert, managing extensive interior design projects and providing architects and designers with expert knowledge on textiles.

About the Sleepotel design
The room concept for the Sleephotel space designed by Studio Arcibella in co-operation with Vallila Interiors,  is a room of sensual experience. The materials are exclusive, natural and warm, with the overall design  showing  a contemporary timeless  design approach.  The room lighting is based on the latest technology, incorporating new energy efficient solutions. Practicality, exclusivity, warmth and surprise are the key words of inspiration for the room. As in the past, the design, focuses on the client experience  as a whole.

Previous projects include Hotel Glo, Helsinki 2007, Radisson BLU hotel Marina Palace Turku, Finland, Radisson BLu hotel Oulu, Finland, Restaurant Kämp Club, Sheraton Luxury collection hotel Kämp, Helsinki,Boutique Piucca, downtown Helsinki, Company mansion for leading mobile phone company of Finland, Kirkkonummi, Finland, Residence of President of Republic of Finland,partial interior design, Mäntyniemi Finland.
Current projects include Scandic Resort Vierumäki Finland, Spa and restaurant world - completion 2010, Långvik Congress and Wellness hotel, Kirkkonummi, Helsinki reagion, Finland - completion 2009 December.

For more information about Vallila see www.vallilainterior.fi. Telephone: +358 (0)207767700. For more information about Studio Arcibella visit www.arcibella.com. Telephone: +358 (0)96211041. 

Peter Joehnk is one of Europe’s foremost hotel interior designers. He established his own company in 1984 and in the 25 years since, Hamburg-based JOI-Design has gone on to work with many of the major hotel brands, as well as independent hotels, across the continent. Peter has also become a leading member of a number of professional organisations including BDIA, IIDA and several architectural associations.

Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk holds degrees in both art history and interior design. She joined the company in 1993 where her knowledge, design flair and communication skills helped her rise rapidly through the ranks to a management role. Like her business partner and, latterly, her husband, Peter, she is a leading member of BDIA and the Architectural Association of Hamburg.

About the Sleepotel design
JOI Design will deliver The Organic Trace concept — the next step in the evolution of the lifestyle trend of "bleisure”, the blurring of the lines between work and pleasure.
JOI-Design has developed a prototype that addresses the yin and yang balance of travellers who mix their work with pleasure. JOI’s design of a “wellness island” integrates a bed, desk and soaking tub into one organically shaped unit. This “hypermodern” sinuous sculpture melts two comfort zones into one. The plush bed and jacuzzi tub create a hybrid of wellness and relaxation that is bridged by an arc which forms the desk. The fluidity of its sculptural shape and concept is enhanced by the wave-like flow in the curved walls, space plan and patterned carpet. As a manifestation of the principle of “bleisure”, Organic Trace is stylish, sensual solution to the nomadic
professional’s need to blend hi-tech flexibility with personal wellness.

Previous projects include Radisson Blu, Hamburg Airport, Germany,Le Méridien Parkhotel, Frankfurt, Germany, Le Méridien Grand Hotel, Nuremburg, Germany,Park Inn, Kracow, Poland,Park Inn, Linz, Austria, Lindner Park-Hotel Hagenbeck, Hamburg, Germany.
Current projects include Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn, Frankfurt Airport, Germany,TUI Hotel, Kaluga, Russia, Grand Hotel, Vienna, Austria, Dolce Hotel, Munich, Germany,Robinson Club, Castelfalfi, Italy, Steigenberger Grandhotel Heringsdorf, Usedom, Germany.

For more information about JOI-Design see www.joi-design.com. Telephone: +49 40 68942110.

Shaun Clarkson is one of the UK’s most prolific designers of modern hospitality. Shaun’s early work included the infamous RAW club, Atlantic Bar and Denim. Other early design included experiential work for Absolut vodka and seminal venues for VPMG and  Pop and Jerusalem for The Breakfast Group. These early examples became a blueprint for the modern bar and club culture we know today. As the sector has matured, Shaun Clarkson ID has diversified into restaurant, bar, café and deli design, but all design work manages to retain a touch of glamour.

About the Sleepotel design
Shaun Clarkson has brought his glamorous approach to the Sleepotel project with a conceptual take on a hotel bedroom. He explains: “ A hotel room should be an inspired escape of comfort and luxury. Not just a home away from home, but better! By integrating all the features you would expect in your hotel, we have distracted the customer away from the hum drum to concentrate on the bigger picture. Our room encapsulates the guest in a gentle mood changing environment. Dark silhouetted back lit screens evoke a feeling of infinity blurring the bounders of the space. The canopied bed appears to be the only feature, but the room is cleverly lit and serviced by subtitled engineered concealed features. Evoke you mood, adjust and enjoy!”

Previous projects include Perrier Joϋet Champagne Bar, Harvey Nichols,The Drapers Arms, Islington, Liquid Nation, Ladbroke Grove for VPMG,Carrington House hotel, Norfolk,Profile Diner, London,Del Aziz, Bankside, Westfield and Bermondsey, Sourced Market, St Pancras Station

For more information about Shaun Clarkson ID see www.shaunclarksonid.com. Telephone: +44 (0)2074902281

About the designer
Luca Scacchetti was born in Milan in 1952. He obtained an architectural degree at the Politecnico of Milan in 1975.He is an architect and designer. His expertise ranges from urban planning to architectural projecting of the buildings, from internal architecture to single objects. Several are his projects of hotels. In the design field he cooperates with the leading Italian and worldwide manufacturers of furniture, office ware, lighting, bath ware, coatings and gifts.

About the Sleepotel design
Tisettanta’s suite is sophisticated, stylish and refined with furnishings characterised by white durmast wood, natural leather,and beige textiles. The pink, clear, diaphanous light that accompanies the withdrawn in the evening at dusk and  the rise in the morning inspires this bedroom, entirely worked out by the bright colours of the oak wood, of the natural hide, of beige and nut-brown fabric and by two colours carpets with big patterns again with the colours of the washed clay. From very bright beige to the brown of the marbles, only one colour with infinite different tones for an extremely relaxing, embracing, “homely” environment, which looks we have already seen, recognized in our own memories.The simplicity, but not banality of the forms as well as the floor inspired by Capogrossi’s paintings resends some how  to the atmospheres of the sixties or the seventies.

Previous projects include Waldorf Hotel Milano Marittima, Italy, Hotel San Lorenzo Chiavenna, Italy and Residence Perelli Loano, Italy.
Current projects include Alrov Mamilla Hotel Jerusalem, Israel, Residence Snowmass-Aspen, Colorado – USA and Residence One Thousand Ocean - Miami, Florida– USA.

For more information about Tisettanta see www.tisettanta.co.uk. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7491 2044.