Hospitality Design - September 2011 - 133

By Stacy Shoemaker Rauen

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Some may think we’re doing a 10-year anniversary feature for bragging rights. After all, from the more than 70 designers, architects, owners, and purchasers we have selected since 2001 to be our New Breed, or what we now call our Wave of the Future honorees (yes, we did a little rebranding a few years back when we invited the honorees to be panelists at our HD Boutique conference), we are hard pressed to find anyone who is still not making their mark on the industry today. From Grupo Habita, the foursome who just opened their first stateside hotel in New York, to designer Glen Coben, who has seven projects opening between August and October, we caught up with some of our impressive alumni.

2004 HONOREE

Martin Vahtra
Founder Projects, New York
One of your recent projects is Empellon in New York (shown). What was your design aesthetic for the restaurant? To create a comfortable local Greenwich Village restaurant offering inspired Mexican food. The look is to reflect the lifestyle and aesthetic of chef Alex Stupak and his wife, who hails from Mexico, including gold leafflecked walls, photos of his wife’s Mexican relatives, Mexican art, and pottery and religious icons. You also recently designed the in-house restaurant Pop Kitchen at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Wolfgang Puck came to us and asked if we could transform the existing restaurant café. The building is a Frank Gehry creation, so the restaurant had to compete for attention with the swirling architecture and appeal to the young clientele of the museum. We did this with color and a contemporary design sensibility. We changed the fast-food/dinner look of the original restaurant into a contemporary open-kitchen/bar concept. You mentioned you are working on a new concept for Charlie Palmer in Denver. Can you elaborate? The only thing I can say is that it’s all about local farm fresh food and the design has to follow suit. What has been the project you have been most proud of ? It is easy to love the big budget projects like a Charlie Palmer Steak or a club for Jay Z, but some of the projects closest to my heart are some of the smaller, hands-on projects. For example Kitchen 22, it’s a Charlie Palmer restaurant, but done on a shoestring. There was no big approval process, no design-bycommittee—Charlie and I designed it over a beer on a cocktail napkin. It was a ‘go’ on the initial ideas (which we find are always the most compelling) and we were both there everyday helping place stone and nail wood to the wall. It had to be done fast and thus we had to do it intuitively and not second-guess ourselves. In the end we came up with some ideas that are popular even today, using reclaimed wood as a wall finish to create a rustic bar, employing large shades as an inexpensive but warm way to light a dining room. In the end, Kitchen 22 was not the biggest or the most expensive project we have worked on, but it was one of our most successful.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - September 2011

Hospitality Design - September 2011
Contents
Online Contents
From the Editor
From the Show Director
Sketchbook
Places
Trends
Interviews
Interviews
Interviews
Profile
Art
Wallcoverings
Casegoods
Wave of the Future
Wave of the Future
Bella Sky Hotel
Hotel Beaux Arts
Hotel Parq Central
St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel
Hotel Kanra
W St. Petersburg
Hotel ICON
Z New York Hotel
Chambers Eat + Drink
Icenhauer’s
Le Posh
Back Space
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