Historic Hotel Reopens With Iconic Carpet
It took over 500 hours to design and is set to become an iconic carpet in one of America’s most famous hotels.
The Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club Hotel, which first opened in 1925, is of historic and architectural importance and is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.
The hotel in St Petersburg, Florida with stunning views over Tampa Bay, is regarded as the grande dame of the Gulf Coast, and has reopened after a two-year $93 million renovation, beautifully blending period opulance with modern luxury.
Central to its unique ambience is the Grand Ballroom, that can seat 499 guests, and which has welcomed great luminaries of screen, sport and politics such as Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Babe Ruth, Herbet Hoover and Calvin Coolidge.
The Grand Ballroom is illuminated by an exclusive Dale Chihuly-designed chandelier, made-up of 750 silver and amber glass pieces in a cone-shaped formation, and carpeted in unique and luxurious Axminster from international carpet manufacturer DESSO.
Such was the design challenge involved in recreating a modern carpet theme that would also perfectly echo the hotel’s historic past, that DESSO designers, working closely with the Dallas office of design firm Leo A Daly, one of the largest architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design firms in the United States, spent over 500 hours perfecting the pattern and colourways.
The hotel was built by oil tycoon Aymer Vinoy Laughner , from whom it takes its name, and was originally completed for $3 million in just 10 months, opening on New Year’s Eve, 1925 – with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, the most popular jazz band of the 1920s, providing the musical accompaniment.
Its origins go back to a late night prank involving legendary golfer Walter Hagen who was using Laughner’s pocket watch as a golf tee, driving golf balls without damaging the watch.
When they later went to collect the balls from the property across the road, they saw the view that it offered across the bay – and the idea for a luxury hotel on the site was born.
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[...] O Grand Ballroom é iluminado por um lustre exclusivo concebido por Dale Chihuly, confeccionados em prata 750 e pedaços de vidro âmbar em uma formação em forma de cone, e carpetes em Axminster único e luxuoso da Desso fabricante internacional de tapetes. Tal foi o desafio do projeto envolvidos na recriação de um tema para o tapete moderno, que também perfeitamente eco do passado histórico do hotel, que os designers Desso, em estreita colaboração com o escritório de Dallas da empresa de design Leo A Daly, um dos maiores da arquitetura, engenharia, planejamento e empresas de design de interiores nos Estados Unidos, gastou mais de 500 horas aperfeiçoando o modelo e coloração…… Mais [...]
wow, you wouldnt want to spill anything on that floor. Or hoover it come to think of it.
Thought my room was a pain to clean. Beautiful though. What a job that would have been joining that together and cutting to lay correctly.
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