Today’s guest is highly skilled at space planning. He is known for fostering excellence within his design team and uses a client's creativity, focus and experience to turn their dreams into a reality. Marc DeSmet is the Associate Principal at TruexCullins Architecture + Interior Design. Marc joins host Dan Ryan to share his #hospitality journey and what it all means to him

Takeaways:

Where you live in the world will influence the way you look at your design space, a faster paced environment will feel and produce a different look than a slower one.
Hospitality isn’t just about little gift baskets in hotel rooms or flowers. It’s a feeling of welcoming and greeting someone to make them feel comfortable.
Hospitality is about creating backdrops for memories. You want to create a positive memory for your guests and have it be something they look back upon fondly.
Music can play a large role in hospitality as well, as it can influence the way a setting is received by a guest.
As an architect, it’s important to consider projects that are longer form and can be multi-generational as that can allow the space to really develop.
You want to create a location that people will want to go back to over and over again.
Net Zero hotels are starting to be looked at as the way of the future for hotels to help the environment.

Quote of the Show:

9:24 “I don't think of it as a thing anymore. I think it's not a noun. Hospitality is a verb. It's an action of greeting. It's an action of welcoming.”

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-desmet-5a325833/
Website: https://truexcullins.com/

Shout Outs:

0:54 Jeffrey Beers

4:37 Platinum Circle Awards

4:52 Larry Traxler

14:31 Rockwell Group

14:34 David Mexico

15:26 Mies van der Rohe

15:27 Louis Kahn

15:47 Morris Lapidus

15:58 Philip Johnson

19:20 The Cliff House

23:12 Hotel Jackson

23:59 Omni Mount Washington

26:13 Foundation Hotel

27:13 Simone Deerie

27:53 KISS

29:57 RGA Loyal

31:16 Phish

32:25 Mike Gordon

40:38 Hotel Marcel

Ways to Tune In:

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