Accor unveils the winners of the 2024 Accor Design Awards

Accor has chosen the Maison&Objet Honest in Paris – a gathering place for enterprise and inventive interplay between international gamers on this planet of decor, design and artwork de vivre – to announce, on September 5, the winners of the 2024 Accor Design Awards, held this 12 months in partnership with Sofitel, that almost all French of its luxurious manufacturers. The occasion is the best showcase for a contest that has been operating since 2016 and attracts structure and inside design college students from everywhere in the world to sort out key facets of resort design.

Envisioning the luxurious resort of the long run

For this eighth version and to kick off a biannual collection on the theme of luxurious, rivals had been requested to think about the luxurious resort of tomorrow. In honor of Sofitel’s sixtieth birthday, college students labored on this iconic Group model. The problem they confronted was to reinvent the way forward for luxurious hospitality and enliven the visitor expertise by way of immersive, up to date and engaged design. This progressive idea would provide visitors and staff alike a singular immersive expertise combining artwork, tradition and sustainable design with a splash of French-style artwork de vivre.

A profitable 2024 competitors

Demonstrating their attraction amongst future international design abilities, the Accor Design Awards attracted practically 100 functions from rivals finding out at some 20 faculties in 8 nations throughout 4 continents. Now the judging panel – chaired this 12 months by designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán, whose designs embrace Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo Panama, opened on the finish of 2022, the rooftop restaurant at Sofitel Athens Airport, formally opened only a 12 months in the past, and the Maison Delano Paris resort – should choose the winners from amongst ten finalists. The 2024 version introduced collectively an in depth design neighborhood supported by sponsors Laufen, Roca, Flos, Led C4, Ligne Roset and JVD.

“One of many key goals is to contribute to the way forward for design within the hospitality sector by providing a far-sighted perspective on what visitors count on with regards to tradition, sustainability and well-being. The Accor Design Awards are a singular alternative to reimagine the way forward for luxurious hospitality and convey to gentle new abilities and tendencies by way of the imaginative and prescient of every faculty. Asking worldwide college students to consider Sofitel, that almost all French of all luxurious resort manufacturers, has inspired them to dream up and conceptualize cutting-edge initiatives which are each refined and engaged,” says Elodie Noël, World SVP Model Design for the Sofitel Legend, MGallery and Emblems manufacturers.

The 2024 winners will probably be introduced at a ceremony at Maison&Objet on September 5 within the presence of the Chair of the judging panel, designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán and the patron of the 2024 Accor Design Awards, Elodie Noël.

Accor Design Awards sensible data

• The thirtieth Maison&Objet Honest will probably be held in Paris from September 5 to 9, 2024.
• Accor stand (designed and produced by Emilie Roz and her group): Corridor 6 K98-L99, Parc Des Expositions, Paris Nord Villepinte
• Place and time – September 5, Corridor 7, “The Talks” area:
  • 16:00 – “The Public Areas of Tomorrow’s Inns”: a chat with Elodie Noël, World SVP Model Design for the Sofitel, Sofitel Legend, MGallery and Emblems manufacturers, and inside designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán. Moderator: Roddy Clarke, design journalist specializing within the constructive social and environmental impacts of design.
  • 16:45 – Accor Design Awards 2024 awards ceremony, with Anne Becker-Olins, World Chief Design & Technical Companies Officer Extremely-Luxurious and Luxurious, Accor

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