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Hotel design trends – a tour d’horizon | By by Raj Chandnani & Krystal Solarzano

Associate, WATG
Vice President, Strategy for WATG and Wimberly Interiors
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Synopsis

How will the hotel of the next decade change physically? What underlying trends are influencing top designers to adapt the way hotels look and feel – inside and out? We asked Raj Chandnani, Vice President of Strategy for WATG and its sister company Wimberly Interiors, to lead us on a highly visual walk through the key developments they are integrating into the hotels they are designing now. The following portfolio, put together exclusively for The Hotel Yearbook, highlights some of the exciting changes we’ll all be seeing, end experiencing, soon.

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Krystal Solarzano
Associate, WATG
WATG
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Raj Chandnani
Vice President, Strategy for WATG and Wimberly Interiors
WATG
WATG
Irvine, CA - United States
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Founded in 1945, WATG is one of the world’s leading design firms specializing in hospitality, entertainment + gaming, urban + mixed-use and high-end residential design. WATG’s interior design firm, Wimberly Interiors, launched in 2008, and is consistently ranked in the Top 20 by Interior Design Magazine in its Hospitality Giants survey. Since George “Pete” Wimberly founded the firm in Honolulu in 1945, WATG has grown to offer integrated design services including Strategy, Master Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interiors for urban, tourism and resort destinations. WATG and Wimberly Interiors have offices in Honolulu, Irvine (California), Los Angeles, New York, London, Cairo, Singapore and Shanghai and are best known for creating internationally acclaimed destinations with more than 400 built projects in 170 countries and territories across six continents. WATG’s projects are renowned not only for their timeless design and sense of place but also for their bottom-line success.