McCARTAN

Designers with 30 yrs of expertise creating outstanding interiors, Furnishings & Lighting for Hotels, Hospitality & Hi Rise Living.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

The last in this series of our design for 800 Stewart. This visionary development in downtown Seattle got stalled but may rise again one day. https://t.co/yAJiJ1P8r8 It was a pleasure working with renowned Architects Weber Thompson and an outstanding development team including: @lincolnpropco @WeberThompson @GLYConstruction @GreystarApts
#WeberThompson
#GLYConstruction
#greystar #lincolnpropertycompany #HotelDevelopment, #RealEstateDevelopment, #HospitalityInvestment, #REIT, #CommercialRealEstate

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

We go the distance - even in the more 'unsung' spaces that most miss as they pass through. Three distinct corridor designs across 58 floors, evolving as you rise. The value driven experience of design should be everywhere.
Thank you @grok for animating our renderings without change to the design. We know you want to let your imagination run wild but reigning you in with prompt bombardments allows our creativity to shine and you to be the valuable tool. #hirisedesign #hospitalitydesign #design #hoteldesign

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

We go the distance - even in the more 'unsung' spaces that most miss as they pass through. Three distinct corridor designs across 58 floors, evolving as you rise. The value driven experience of design should be everywhere.
Thank you @grok for animating our renderings without change to the design. We know you want to let your imagination run wild but reigning you in with prompt bombardments allows our creativity to shine and you to be the valuable tool. #hirisedesign #hospitalitydesign #design #hoteldesign

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Arrival & Landing spaces are equally important parts of a hotel or hi rise experience. Here's 4 different elevator lobby designs, all in our 800 Stewart project.
As always we use @grok imagine to add movement to our sketch renderings. There is no AI design enhancement or embellishment. We work hard with the prompting to ensure that what is shown is entirely our original design intent.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

More SHADOLOGY in @hotelnia
Chicken or the egg question...
Thank you to @grok for animating our photographs

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

SHADOLOGY
Our ever growing Light Fixture Collection featuring fresh and unexpected ways to use lampshades.
Thank you @grok imagine for deftly adding movement to our existing photographs without altering our design. #design

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

SHADOLOGY
Our ever growing Light Fixture Collection featuring fresh and unexpected ways to use lampshades.
Thank you @grok imagine for deftly adding movement to our existing photographs without altering our design. #design

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Another view of design for the Eventi Hotel Ballroom, focusing on our 'Drop Necklace' wall light. Thank you as always to @grok Imagine for adding motion to the original photograph. #hoteldesign #lightingdesign @design #designforhospitality #hoteldevelopment

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An homage to our design for @Kimpton Hotel Eventi in NYC. The ballroom had a few more structural columns than desired but we decided to embrace that & drape them for theatrical effect. This also included McCartan designed ceiling fixtures and carpet. More here: https://t.co/KcEGQoWVZ0
Note: We used @grok imagine to add movement to the photographs, without altering the design.
#hoteldesign #hospitalitydesign #lightingdesign #hoteldevelopment

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

An homage to our design for @Kimpton Hotel Eventi in NYC. The ballroom had a few more structural columns than desired but we decided to embrace that & drape them for theatrical effect. This also included McCartan designed ceiling fixtures and carpet. More here: https://t.co/KcEGQoWVZ0
Note: We used @grok imagine to add movement to the photographs, without altering the design.
#hoteldesign #hospitalitydesign #lightingdesign #hoteldevelopment

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Arrival & Landing spaces are equally important parts of a hotel or hi rise experience. Here's 4 different elevator lobby designs, all in our 800 Stewart project.
As always we use @grok imagine to add movement to our sketch renderings. There is no AI design enhancement or embellishment. We work hard with the prompting to ensure that what is shown is entirely our original design intent.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Thankful for this visionary development at 800 Stewart, downtown Seattle. One of few that kept us going thru' the pandemic. https://t.co/5tl3gMaBF7
Working with renowned Architects Weber Thompson, this 53 story jewel was ready to break ground when funding challenge's arose. (not unusual in this business).
It was a pleasure working with such an outstanding development team including: @lincolnpropco #WeberThompson @GLYConstruction #greystar #lincolnpropertycompany
#HotelDevelopment, #RealEstateDevelopment, #HospitalityInvestment, #REIT, #CommercialRealEstate
(Worth noting that we are also the lighting design consultant for our interiors project's.)

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

@elonmusk The usefulness of @grok imagine doesn’t always have to depend on photorealistic results.
We use it to bring life to our hotel design concept sketches or fly-thru of a rendering that keeps it sketchy and imaginative. Examples below of how @grok was able to create videos that didn't change our design intent.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Thankful for this visionary development at 800 Stewart, downtown Seattle. One of few that kept us going thru' the pandemic. https://t.co/5tl3gMaBF7
Working with renowned Architects Weber Thompson, this 53 story jewel was ready to break ground when funding challenge's arose. (not unusual in this business).
It was a pleasure working with such an outstanding development team including: @lincolnpropco #WeberThompson @GLYConstruction #greystar #lincolnpropertycompany
#HotelDevelopment, #RealEstateDevelopment, #HospitalityInvestment, #REIT, #CommercialRealEstate
(Worth noting that we are also the lighting design consultant for our interiors project's.)

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Meet our Hoodie Chair. Designed for The Epiphany Hotel in Palo Alto. We often referred to it as the "Mark Zuckerberg hoodie chair".
It was a one-off design but we have variations. See video below.
Many more original designs in our FLO anthology here:
https://t.co/T53Sbb4CbB
#paloalto #productdesign #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #hoteldesign

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Our original mirror designs for Epiphany.
Good Design has many attributes for those who touch, see and experience it. Sometimes 'a smile factor' is one of these.
Whether its for an 'ooh' an 'aah' a puzzled grin or a smile of satisfaction, check out more of our original designs in our 'FLO' anthology of Furniture, Lighting and Objects: https://t.co/T53Sbb4CbB
Epiphany was filled with ooh's and aah's:
https://t.co/fRupymCen8

I believe ensuring the ability to create smiles as part of the experience is critical to good design. Even if its a just a smile of contentment :) Even at the highest level: @ndstudio @jgebbia

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Bonus Lampshades:
-Lampshade shelves again
-Floor lampshade
-Pivoting lampshades
-Inverted giant floor lampshade

We have designed hundreds of light fixtures, almost exclusively for our hotel design projects. But we have hundreds more ideas in waiting.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

We have always enjoyed playing with lampshades.
Here’s a somewhat chronological series created for various hotels we have designed.
More playful design ideas in our FLO anthology here: https://t.co/yO9QuRmY8O

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

2/2
-Flower pot lampshades (2).
-Stacked Lampshades
-Cages of Lampshades

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

We used @grok imagine to add light, shadow and subtle movement to static renderings of our design for a new hi rise just opened in NYC.
Understated design can be elegantly dramatic too and doesn’t always have to be out of this world. Right @grok ? @elonmusk ? @jgebbia ?

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Our slinking bench collection had legs of steel.

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

I was first attracted to design in my early days at Art college when I saw a senior student turn a conventional furniture concept inside out & upside down.
I loved the unexpected twist and I loved the wit. Ever since then it is these 'punch lines' of design that often give me the greatest satisfaction. Below is our light fixture version of the chicken and the egg question.
See more of our FLO (Furniture Lighting Objects) here: https://t.co/T53Sbb5a19
#design #uniquedesign #productdesign #designforhospitality

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

I was first attracted to design in my early days at Art college when I saw a senior student turn a conventional furniture concept inside out & upside down.
I loved the unexpected twist and I loved the wit. Ever since then it is these 'punch lines' of design that often give me the greatest satisfaction. Below is our light fixture version of the chicken and the egg question.
See more of our FLO (Furniture Lighting Objects) here: https://t.co/T53Sbb5a19
#design #uniquedesign #productdesign #designforhospitality

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Another glimpse at The Orchard LIC. No photoshoot yet but this is our indoor pool rendering. We started design for this 70 story tower during the pandemic. Talk about a phoenix rising...due in no small part to the positive vision of our client BLDG management the skill & experience of Perkins Eastman Architects and the competent hands of the builder @TritonConstruct . Teamwork at its finest.
https://t.co/31vKh4CifL
https://t.co/MkGpFfxYAw
https://t.co/VTgLOHe95j

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Our latest project 'The Orchard' in NYC has opened. celebrations are starting. More here:
https://t.co/BSxz3HFIsV
https://t.co/mKyBws1ORQ
https://t.co/gfpvVkh8df
https://t.co/23D4zhZxgj
@newyorkcityhirise @hospitality @longislandcity @newdesign @design @nycdevelopment

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Our latest project 'The Orchard' in NYC has opened. celebrations are starting. More here:
https://t.co/BSxz3HFIsV
https://t.co/mKyBws1ORQ
https://t.co/gfpvVkh8df
https://t.co/23D4zhZxgj
@newyorkcityhirise @hospitality @longislandcity @newdesign @design @nycdevelopment

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Our original mirror designs for Epiphany.
Good Design has many attributes for those who touch, see and experience it. Sometimes 'a smile factor' is one of these.
Whether its for an 'ooh' an 'aah' a puzzled grin or a smile of satisfaction, check out more of our original designs in our 'FLO' anthology of Furniture, Lighting and Objects: https://t.co/T53Sbb4CbB
Epiphany was filled with ooh's and aah's:
https://t.co/fRupymCen8

I believe ensuring the ability to create smiles as part of the experience is critical to good design. Even if its a just a smile of contentment :) Even at the highest level: @ndstudio @jgebbia

[McCARTAN @McCartanDesign]

Here’s a design story:

It begins with my old friend & mentor @chipconley, Creator, Speaker, Author and Founder of many enterprises including @JDVHotels (@Hyatt brand) and Modern Elder Academy (MEA) https://t.co/0VomeT4zEI
We had previously designed Hotel Vitale and Adagio hotels for JDV in San Francisco.

Chip called in 2011 about a former nursing home property in Palo Alto. A week later he picked me up at SFO and as we drove to the site. He explained how he wanted the hotel to embody the technology driven lifestyle at the heart of Silicon Valley.

We immersed ourselves immediately and created a unique environment filled with countless original designs. The Epiphany opened to critical acclaim in 2014. See some images of our work here: https://t.co/fRupymCen8

In 2015 this boutique jewel was acquired by @larryellison for a record setting price and immediately redesigned to become @NobuPaloAlto Everything we created, every single piece of finish and furnishing was replaced.
Don’t get me wrong, we love the Nobu, it is beautiful. (we could design one too). This is just an example of how designers must be good at letting go… of their former loved ones.
Creating great new work often means not being afraid to overwrite the old. Which is well demonstrated today by @jgebbia and @ndstudio

#Nobuhotels #hoteldesign #hotels #epiphanypaloalto #tpgangelogordon #hyatt #jdvhotels #paloalto #interiordesign #siliconvalley

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A Continuation of our Hotel Epiphany retrospective:

It was Chips goal for the hotel design to embody the innovative characteristics of silicon valley. We worked hard to weave a visual narrative of novel ideas for lighting & furnishings that pushed the limits of what an interior and decorative product designer could achieve and what hotel guests could discover and appreciate in terms of functionality, form and delight. The project can also be seen here:
https://t.co/fRupymCen8
#hospitalitydesign #hoteldesign #hoteldevelopment #gooddesign #designroi #meaningfulldesign