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Gala-3 armchair in red upholstery brings this dining room to life

Art of Hospitality Design

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Designing to Create Amazing Spaces

One of the most important skills for hospitality interior designers is balancing a clients’ wish list while ensuring an excellent guest experience. It is an underestimated yet necessary skill. Negotiating choices from materials to seating, lighting to color often means satisfying the tastes, needs, and whims of a client while impressing guests with the look of the design and providing a space for their comfort.


Color, lighting materials, and space are all great ways to define a hospitality space.

Helping onboard clients to your vision can be easier if they see the entire project broken into smaller, unique spaces. Dividing a project into distinct segments illustrates how each area is its own and yet contributes to the overall design of the space. Color, lighting, upholstery are materials used to define separate areas. And, when these materials are woven throughout the overall project, they unify the whole design.

Use Furniture to Unify a Space

Of course, furniture is also a unifying design element. Whether featured as an ensemble or a singular piece, furniture certainly is a major impact on a space. Using pieces from the same furniture collection creates a cohesive aesthetic throughout a restaurant or hotel design. It also allows designers to play with style, as furniture then bridges a project’s smaller, distinct areas into the overall design. Integrating fabrics, stains, and other materials into the furniture styling helps integrate these areas throughout a space.

Cambria Mile North distinguishes dining and bar areas using different fabrics colors and materials

Regina Urner, senior interior designer for Design Tribe, knows it is also important to stay true to the brand when designing for a hospitality space. In her 5 Key Elements of Restaurant Design, Urner reminds us that a fine dining restaurant should not have a ‘hodgepodge of chairs and tables,” or that cloth napkins belong in a BBQ joint. Employing Urner’s philosophy, using furniture from the same collection coordinates the differing spaces and keep continuity throughout a design and keeping it on brand. This is something your clients will notice and appreciate.

The opportunity to provide designers a seating collection with versatility to be used throughout a design is one of the reasons Aceray introduced its Gala collection in 2013. Gala blends modern and classic design, lending styling opportunities for casual to elegant spaces. This offers designers opportunities to incorporate the collection as ensemble or featured pieces.

When architecture is the star, make sure the furniture is still a strong supporting cast

Focus on Guest Comfort

Beyond adding to the ambiance of a restaurant or hotel, well-designed furniture must provide comfort for guests. There is no point for furniture only looking good without providing comfort. When guests are comfortable, they are more relaxed. For a restaurant, keeping guests comfortable equates to guests spending more beyond their meals, such as on after dinner drinks, desserts, or coffees. For a hotel, offering spaces for quite reflection, an area for relaxation, or a place to reunite with traveling companions, provide guests with distinct yet individualized featured comforts they now demand.

Aceray Gala-1 dining chair and Campo DQ1 table base in dining room of Oakbrook, IL hotel

Let seating shine in a design, it can provide the touch that makes a space pop.

When designing for hospitality, from creating an overall look to the nuanced details is about providing guests with a unique and impressive space while staying true to the brand. Connecting distinct areas in a project is as big of a challenge as balancing the expectations of the client. From materials to lighting, environment to furniture, no detail is too small to consider in order to realize a fully cohesive design.

Aceray Continues Two Decades of Excellence

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Blending old world expertise with current technologies and design, Aceray manufactures contract seating and table solutions for interior and exterior spaces. For nearly two decades, Aceray’s team of designers has delivered innovative collections of contemporary and timeless furniture styles that distinguish Aceray as a leading manufacturer.

Unmatched Craftsmanship

We employ state-of-the-art equipment and technologies, necessary when manufacturing high quality furnishings. Yet, the backbone of Aceray’s success has always been the people who make our furniture. Their innovation and imagination is inspirational and they are masters of their craft, creating furniture unmatched in its artisanship.

Creating Furniture Classics

Our team of international furniture designers combine innovation and creativity to design our modern yet timeless collections. Their inspiring creations provide the opportunity for interior designers to compose spaces that are unique and memorable.

Dedicated to Environmental Sustainability

Aceray uses materials from solid woods, unique metal finishes, and fashionable fabrics along with stone, marble, and glass into our products. Dedicated to minimizing the impact on the environment, our materials conform to the strictest requirements, including:

  • Wood harvested in accordance with the latest sustainable technologies
  • Low formaldehyde factory emissions
  • Water-based finishing systems
  • 100% recyclable wood components, resins, polymers and metal products

In addition, our manufacturing methods surpass the strict environmental rules imposed by European regulatory authorities.

To learn more about Aceray products and collections visit our website: www.aceray.com.