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Interior designer Inge Moore has called on hospitality designers to incorporate fun, interactivity and individuality into spa and gym design. Moore is launching bespoke hospitality design studio Muse after leaving Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), who will invest in the new company. During her time with HBA, Moore designed a host of hospitality projects, including the renovation of London’s Grosvenor House for JW Marriott, a luxury sleeper train for Belmond in Ireland and the Belmond Eagle Island Safari Lodge in Botswana.
With the new studio, Moore, co-founder Nathan Hutchins, and their team of 15 are working on a spa resort in Goa, a new hotel in Ibiza and another luxury train for Belmond. Individuality is the feature that unifies these projects, says Moore. The interior designer says that the whole way we’re thinking about travel experiences is changing.
“These days, when we stay at a nice place, we expect there to be a great spa, gym, fitness facilities and yoga,” she says. “The better you can deliver those spaces, the more special you make people’s experience. They should be super-fun areas to socialise and learn.
“It’s so, so important to stand out,” she says. “Everywhere you go, there are three or four good hotels and countless Airbnbs, so yours needs to be special. People choose to stay at the more interesting spaces, especially now the world’s become much more visual, with social media, and everyone sending selfies immediately. That creates a huge opportunity for designers to make beautiful spaces that also make people feel good and have a ‘wow factor.’”
But Moore says a truly great spa design has to do more than just look good. “For me, space has to make you feel,” she says. “If you don’t feel something about the space, you’re not going to remember the space. Feel and look are intertwined. You can’t take one away and just have the other, because it won’t be remembered at all if you do that – it’ll just be another pretty space.”
Moore says the key to success is delivering a story, as well as allowing guests to have a fun experience. “People increasingly want to learn about health and wellbeing through spaces where you do interactive things together,” she says. “Our idea is you go to a hotel and you learn something or experience something new while you’re there. By presenting these experiences in a fun, interactive way that appeals to people across the age spectrum, you can create really interesting, memorable experiences.”
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Interior designer Inge Moore has called on hospitality designers to incorporate fun, interactivity and individuality into spa and gym design. Moore is launching bespoke hospitality design studio Muse after leaving Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), who will invest in the new company. During her time with HBA, Moore designed a host of hospitality projects, including the renovation of London’s Grosvenor House for JW Marriott, a luxury sleeper train for Belmond in Ireland and the Belmond Eagle Island Safari Lodge in Botswana.
With the new studio, Moore, co-founder Nathan Hutchins, and their team of 15 are working on a spa resort in Goa, a new hotel in Ibiza and another luxury train for Belmond. Individuality is the feature that unifies these projects, says Moore. The interior designer says that the whole way we’re thinking about travel experiences is changing.
“These days, when we stay at a nice place, we expect there to be a great spa, gym, fitness facilities and yoga,” she says. “The better you can deliver those spaces, the more special you make people’s experience. They should be super-fun areas to socialise and learn.
“It’s so, so important to stand out,” she says. “Everywhere you go, there are three or four good hotels and countless Airbnbs, so yours needs to be special. People choose to stay at the more interesting spaces, especially now the world’s become much more visual, with social media, and everyone sending selfies immediately. That creates a huge opportunity for designers to make beautiful spaces that also make people feel good and have a ‘wow factor.’”
But Moore says a truly great spa design has to do more than just look good. “For me, space has to make you feel,” she says. “If you don’t feel something about the space, you’re not going to remember the space. Feel and look are intertwined. You can’t take one away and just have the other, because it won’t be remembered at all if you do that – it’ll just be another pretty space.”
Moore says the key to success is delivering a story, as well as allowing guests to have a fun experience. “People increasingly want to learn about health and wellbeing through spaces where you do interactive things together,” she says. “Our idea is you go to a hotel and you learn something or experience something new while you’re there. By presenting these experiences in a fun, interactive way that appeals to people across the age spectrum, you can create really interesting, memorable experiences.”
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
Interview: Jeremy McCarthy
Mandarin Oriental’s group director
of spa and wellness discusses mental
wellness, spas and technology
Promotional feature: Beautyworld Middle East
Set to take place May 14-16, 2017 in Dubai, Beautyworld Middle East is billed as “three days to rediscover wellness and shake up the industry.”
Promotional feature: ESPA
ESPA has been a leader in the field of therapeutic skincare and luxury spa design and management for 25 years. Founder Susan Harmsworth explains how the company’s recent brand evolution will make ESPA even more relevant to the future of wellness
Promotional feature: Riceforce
Rice Force is set to make further inroads into the spa market in 2017 with the
launch of its new aromatic oils and treatment protocol
Promotional feature: Oakworks
Oakworks’ new Masters’ Collection range, which will consist of over 15 models by the end of 2017, has been designed to offer spa operators the ultimate in modern styling, with solutions and functionality that address each spa’s practical needs
Gran Hotel Taoro in northern Tenerife, Spain, has completed the final phase of its three-year
renovation with the debut of its Sandára Wellness Centre.
Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa, the spa business with more than 650 locations across
the US and Canada, has appointed franchise expert Carrie Walsh as CEO as the company plans
to expand.
Synergy – The Retreat Show, the global trade show for retreats, has launched a global research
initiative that will provide insights into the retreat sector from both consumer and industry
perspectives.
The Wellness Tourism Association (WTA) has published a non-regulatory global industry
framework designed to ensure the retreat market offers responsible experiences.
A new survey of UK and international spa practitioners shows that stress, burnout and
wellbeing concerns have caused one in three respondents to consider leaving the industry.
The UK's four Chief Medical Officers have published a refreshed edition of Physical activity
guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers' report, updating the evidence that underpins the nation's
physical activity recommendations and placing greater emphasis on strength, balance, reducing
sedentary behaviour and, for the first time, supporting people taking weight loss medications.
Anna Bjurstam has left her role as Wellness Pioneer at Six Senses Hotels and Resorts and
launched a new wellness, longevity and “consciousness consultancy” called Wahayla.
Contrast therapy, based on the alternation of hot and cold rituals, has become one of the
most valued practices in the fields of wellness and recovery. [more...]
In the fast-paced world of fitness and wellness, where high-intensity workouts push us to
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