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Hotel I love for its design
Delano, South Beach-it’s classic, grand, graceful, dramatic, playful, soulful…memorable and enduring
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Dream project
My own hotel brand: UrbanSafari
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Guilty pleasure
The usual…and I don’t feel guilty about any
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Favorite destination
London-the design center of the planet
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Wish I had designed
Amangiri, Utah
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Perfect day
Summer weekend on my verandah under a hundred-year-old wisteria, with The New York Times, a stack of design journals, pot of coffee, and my dog beside me
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Recently completed projects
Palatine apartment complex, San Diego; Blue Hound restaurant, Phoenix; and many retail stores for national chains
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Projects on the boards
Hard Rock Hotel, Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico; Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas; the Lakehouse Resort, San Marcos, California; MandarinHaus, Playboy Lounge (pictured below), and two harbor-side restaurants, San Diego; and a ski/skate/surf entertainment complex (with artificial mountain slope) in Southern California
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Greatest accomplishment
Building and maintaining a
loyal, very talented, and extremely hardworking design team
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Outside the office, you can find me
In my studio at home, doing the same
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Books on my nightstand
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1964 Edition
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Cities to watch
Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town
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Travel wish
A remote, quiet, adventure destination, without internet acess
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If I wasn’t a designer, I would be…
The front man, lead singer, and guitarist in a rock band
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iPhone or Blackberry
BlackBerry (I know, but I am super flash on a tactile keypad) |
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I can always watch
HBO on Sunday nights
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