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Behind the Design - Moevenpick Hotel The Moevenpick completes its makeover and proves how functional art can be adapted in the hospitality sector. By Brett Davis. Photos by Fred Wissink. 54 asialife HCMC
Hotels are practical things, a place to lay your head at the end of a journey. Occasionally, they can even be beautiful in a distant sort of way. It is not often though that they take a bold design step that is moving more in the direction of functional art. The Swiss hotel group Moevenpick closed their HCM City property for several months last year to perform a major makeover. The result is a top-to-bottom redesign that has reinvigorated the hotel and turned the heads of new and regular guests alike. Moevenpick General Manager Knuth Kiefer explained the goal was to create an overall design that set the hotel apart from the competition in Vietnam. “In Hong Kong or Singapore you will see things like this but not in Vietnam,” he said. The result was a collaborative process, with an original design from a Thai firm supplemented with ideas from numerous sources including the property owner and construction project manager. However, only a little way into the conversation with Kiefer it is obvious the general manager’s personal flair was a significant influence on the final design. Purple sofas provide an arresting counter-note in the gleaming white lobby, and the striking shade is a recurring theme through much of the new design. It also happens to be Kiefer’s favourite colour. “I like colours that are different—purple, turquoise, lime green. I like contrast and I think it worked quite well with a white lobby,” he said. Around 2,500sq metres of floor space was added to the hotel through the reconstruction. The front entrance was moved forward and more glass added to bring in extra light. Even new uniforms were designed to give a more stylish, less formal feel. The changes have been well received by the vast majority of the hotel’s guests. Kiefer said the hotel was looking to move away from its more staid, colonial-looking past and attract a higher-end corporate guest. The transition from the past to a bright new future could not be more dramatic. asialife HCMC 55
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