by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
Jim Looney is president of Looney & Associates, an award-winning and highly acclaimed interior design company with offices in Chicago and Dallas. Their extensive portfolio includes resorts, hotels, commercial and residential properties in locations in Arizona,...
by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
In 2004, Stephen Perkins was inducted into the Hospitality DesignPlatinum Circle in recognition of the hospitality design of ForrestPerkins. Founded in 1998 by Stephen Perkins, Deborah Forrest, and Cliff Tuttle, ForrestPerkins became a broadly recognized interior...
by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
During the ‘70s and ‘80s, Ian Schrager and his late business partner Steve Rubell, created Studio 54 and Palladium nightclubs. They soon opened Morgans Hotel in 1984 followed by the Royalton Hotel and Paramount Hotel. Schrager also received international recognition...
by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
After founding Four Seasons Hotels in 1960 Isadore Sharp built and opened the first Four Seasons, a 125-room motor hotel in Toronto in 1961. In 2009, Sharp summarized his experience and business philosophy in a book Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy....
by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
Philippe Starck jump-started his career by designing two nightclub interiors in Paris in the 1970s. Two years later, Starck designed the interior of the Café Costes, Paris. He created elegant interiors for the Royalton and Paramount hotels in New York, the Delano in...
by studio98 | Aug 21, 2014 | Past Honorees
Owner of Starr Restaurants, Stephen Starr started in the restaurant industry at age 21 when he opened Grand Mom Minnie’s followed by Stars and Riply Music Hall. Eventually, he began the Concert Company, bringing large-scale stadium acts to Philadelphia. In 1990, after...
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