In session · concept and strategy, 2024
The brand promises one thing. The architecture says another. The business model quietly argues with both. Most of what eventually goes wrong is decided in that gap.
The work is to close it, to make the idea, the experience, and the economics agree before they become expensive to change. Increasingly that reaches into how AI reshapes the work itself, a question that is organizational long before it is technological.
Conceived and launched Equinox Hotels. Led design across seventy locations and more. Directed Marriott's luxury portfolio, from Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis to EDITION and W. Earlier, W Hotels and Bliss for Starwood, the EDITION concept with Ian Schrager, and brand environments for Nike and Victorinox.
If you are early on something and not yet sure what it wants to be, that is the right time to talk.