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Lo is the daughter of Langham Hospitality chair Ka Shui Lo
When Katherine Lo’s father, Langham Hospitality Group chair Ka Shui Lo, tasked her with remaking the group’s Eaton brand to appeal to a millennial audience, she used her background in activism, anthropology and film to create a space that merges hospitality with social change.
Lo’s new hotel brand, Eaton Workshop, has four distinct parts: hotel, house, media and wellness. The first location is set to open in Washington, DC, early this year, with more to follow in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Seattle. “The brand is the manifestation of me ‘following my bliss’ so others can follow theirs,” says Lo. “Beyond the eco-minded design and community-oriented offerings, through the power of our programming and content, we will take a moral stance and catalyse productive, positive change through dialoguing.”
Wellness programming at Eaton Workshop is inspired by new age practices and experiential learning traditions, with a holistic approach built on the mind-body connection. This includes classes like yoga and meditation, alternative therapies like reiki and acupuncture, and sensory experiences including infrared saunas and sound baths.
“Vegetable-forward” and detox food and beverage menus will be offered, and the locations will host guest speakers in the health and wellness industry.
Leong Leong and Kengo Kuma and Associates have been brought on for the design architecture, and Gachot Studios, Parts and Labor Design and Avroko for interior design.
The brand plans a serious focus on sustainability, creating partnerships with organic bath products and organic mattress companies, installing rooftop organic gardens and wind turbines, and practising aerobic food waste decomposition.
Taking cues from political and countercultural movements from the Beatniks to last year’s Women’s March, the 209-bedroom Eaton DC will include a wellness centre with yoga, meditation and alternative treatments, as well as an event space, coworking club, rooftop bar, restaurant and 50-person cinema.
“Recent political events make our first hotel in DC that much more trenchant,” says Lo. “The Eaton we are creating will be a safe space and sanctuary for all: international, people of colour, LGBTQ and more.”
The Eaton Hong Kong will follow later this year and will open in the emerging Kowloon neighbourhood.
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Promotional feature: Oakworks
Dafne Berlanga, vice president of international business
development of Oakworks, discusses the importance of sustainability
Lo is the daughter of Langham Hospitality chair Ka Shui Lo
When Katherine Lo’s father, Langham Hospitality Group chair Ka Shui Lo, tasked her with remaking the group’s Eaton brand to appeal to a millennial audience, she used her background in activism, anthropology and film to create a space that merges hospitality with social change.
Lo’s new hotel brand, Eaton Workshop, has four distinct parts: hotel, house, media and wellness. The first location is set to open in Washington, DC, early this year, with more to follow in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Seattle. “The brand is the manifestation of me ‘following my bliss’ so others can follow theirs,” says Lo. “Beyond the eco-minded design and community-oriented offerings, through the power of our programming and content, we will take a moral stance and catalyse productive, positive change through dialoguing.”
Wellness programming at Eaton Workshop is inspired by new age practices and experiential learning traditions, with a holistic approach built on the mind-body connection. This includes classes like yoga and meditation, alternative therapies like reiki and acupuncture, and sensory experiences including infrared saunas and sound baths.
“Vegetable-forward” and detox food and beverage menus will be offered, and the locations will host guest speakers in the health and wellness industry.
Leong Leong and Kengo Kuma and Associates have been brought on for the design architecture, and Gachot Studios, Parts and Labor Design and Avroko for interior design.
The brand plans a serious focus on sustainability, creating partnerships with organic bath products and organic mattress companies, installing rooftop organic gardens and wind turbines, and practising aerobic food waste decomposition.
Taking cues from political and countercultural movements from the Beatniks to last year’s Women’s March, the 209-bedroom Eaton DC will include a wellness centre with yoga, meditation and alternative treatments, as well as an event space, coworking club, rooftop bar, restaurant and 50-person cinema.
“Recent political events make our first hotel in DC that much more trenchant,” says Lo. “The Eaton we are creating will be a safe space and sanctuary for all: international, people of colour, LGBTQ and more.”
The Eaton Hong Kong will follow later this year and will open in the emerging Kowloon neighbourhood.
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
Promotional feature: Oakworks
Dafne Berlanga, vice president of international business
development of Oakworks, discusses the importance of sustainability
Private hotel owner and developer HVL Hotels will open a new luxury resort and tourism
destination called Laval Hunter Valley in the second half of 2027 in Pokolbin, Australia.
The annual wellness festival dedicated to wellbeing, culture, longevity and human connection,
called Alma, will be hosted by Rocco Forte hotel, Verdura Resort in Sicily, Italy.
Capella Hotel Group has appointed Feisal Jaffer as chief development officer as the company
ramps up its global expansion of both its Capella and Patina brands.
People taking GLP-1 weight loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound
may be losing weight, but they’re also becoming less physically active, according to new
research presented at the ENDO 2026 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Capital has made a binding, fully financed
€1 billion
offer to acquire Pierre and Vacances SA, the European holiday resort operator behind the
continental European Center Parcs business.
Global retreat trade show, Synergy The Retreat Show, has launched a resource called The
Source, which hosts an open-access online Transformation Series programme.
The Standards Authority for Touch in Cancer Care (SATCC) charity has announced its first five-
day Living with Cancer and Beyond retreat, which will be held at Carden Park Hotel and Spa in
Cheshire, UK, between 1 and 5 September.
Patmos Aktis, a Luxury Collection Resort and Spa, has opened in Greece, with a renovated and
rebranded wellness offering called Ansana Wellness and Spa.
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, an Autograph Collection property in Hawaii, US, has opened its
22,000 sq ft indoor-outdoor Spa at Mauna Kea as the final step in the property’s overall
renovation, which has cost more than US$180 million (€166 million, £140 mill
The UK spa review and discovery platform for consumers, the Good Spa Guide, has announced
it will host the Good Spa Guide Awards 2026 during an event on 16 November at Sopwell House
Hotel in St Albans, UK.
