Quiet luxury has become a particularly debated concept within contemporary hospitality design. Often associated with restraint, understatement and craft, it is less a visual language than a mindset: rooted in intention, emotional intelligence and the careful orchestration of space, light, materiality and experience.
To explore what quiet luxury really means in practice, Hotel Designs, in association with Lutron, convened a roundtable discussion at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. Bringing together eleven leading hospitality designers and industry figures, the conversation moved beyond aesthetics to examine how quiet luxury is shaped by service, narrative, technology, wellness and the smallest, often overlooked, design decisions.
From tactile touchpoints and intuitive lighting to spatial planning, flexibility and the role of digital integration, the discussion revealed that quiet luxury is not about doing less – but about doing the right things exceptionally well.
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