The Water Trough was named a finalist in the AIA Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards! With interiors by Rottet Studio, the Water Trough "is the full-service restaurant and bar located within Valencia’s Lone Star Court, an Austin-based, 123-key roadside hotel.  This space is shaped by sampling elements of Texas culture and lore with elements of barns, and dance halls, to icehouses and cantinas."Cast your vote to help us win the People's Choice Award here!The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on Saturday, May 30th at Dwell on Design. Thank you for your support!

The latest issue of Modern Luxury Interiors Texas contains the magazine’s “Best in Design” awards, with multiple accolades to Rottet Studio!The Rottet-designed Lone Star Court received Readers’ Choice for “Best Outdoor Space”. Likewise, Lauren Rottet was named “Best Furniture Designer” for her Rottet Home furniture line!Read the full digital publication here.

The latest issue of Modern Luxury Interiors Texas contains the magazine's "Best in Design" awards, with multiple accolades to Rottet Studio!The Rottet-designed Lone Star Court received Readers' Choice for "Best Outdoor Space". Likewise, Lauren Rottet was named "Best Furniture Designer" for her Rottet Home furniture line!Read the full digital publication here.

             Valencia's Lone Star Court was featured in Prime Living Magazine's September-October issue!"There’s something magical, nostalgic and uniquely American about hitting the open road. Just watching the scenery rush by the car window awakens the nomadic spirit of adventure in all of us. And when it’s time to stop for a while and cool the tires, what’s more charming than a mom-and-pop style motor court hotel? While many of these charming, kitschy outposts of traveler hospitality might have faded to flickering, neon-lit mirages of our childhood, one hotelier—with the help of Lauren Rottet of Rottet Studio—is trying to bring back the cool of motor court traveling with the sophistication of luxury boutique hotel amenities."Pick up a copy today to read the full article!

The July 2014 issue of Boutique Hotelier includes a brief write-up on Valencia Group's Lone Star Court with praises to Lauren Rottet's interior design. Read the full digital issue here!

It's National Take Your Dog to Work Day, and businesses all across the United States are experiencing an influx of temporary furry co-workers. For Jack, the Australian Shepherd living at the Rottet-designed Lone Star Court, it's another ordinary day at work!"If there’s anything that’ll make us fall for a hotel, it’s a hotel pet. And although Norman the Scooter Dog is a tough cute-hotel-doggy act to follow, here’s a worthy successor: Jack, the delectable Australian Shepherd here, who lives at the Lone Star Court, an old-motel-turned-retro-hotel in Austin."Read the rest of the article here on Hotel Chatter!

The Austin American-Statesman recently published an article about Valencia Lone Star Court!"Lone Star Court designer Lauren Rottet of the Houston-based Rottet Studio had to walk 'the fine line between being kitsch without being gimmicky or tacky,' she says, 'We wanted it to be charming in its 'campiness,' but Austin is a city in which locals and visitors are always on the lookout for what is new and different, so I think that helps our cause.'"Read the rest of the article here.

We made the Style section of the Houston Chronicle again this weekend with an article featuring our work in Valencia Lone Star Court!"...Lone Star Court is an upscale, modern spin on the old-school motor court concept. Owned by Valencia Group, whose portfolio includes Houston's Hotel Sorella and Hotel Valencia in San Antonio, and designed by Houston-based Lauren Rottet of Rottet Studio, it opened December 24 in the Domain shopping district in Northwest Austin."Pick up a copy of the Houston Chronicle to read the rest of the article!