The Houston Chronicle highlights Rottet Studio's design of the space at BG Group Place for the offices of Johnson / Downie."Hovering near the top of BG Group Place, at 811 Main, in the glass alcove that is the building's signature architectural feature, the Rottet Studio-designed space is a luxe nest for the recruitment of top-flight legal eagles. A place of extreme clarity and light, it welcomes visitors first to a gleaming lounge. A white marble bar replaces the typical corporate reception desk, white leather furniture invites relaxation, rich wood floors bring a touch of warmth, a few chrome accents add sparkle and floor-to-ceiling windows suggest endless possibility."Read the full article here.
Interior Design covers Lauren Rottet's work on New York offices for an asset-management group."Lauren Rottet always dreamed of living in New York. The opportunity to do so hasn’t yet presented itself, so the Interior Design Hall of Fame member has done the next best thing. When Rottet Studio was renovating the Surrey hotel on the Upper East Side, she opened a satellite office downtown. And she was off and running. The satellite is now every bit as busy as its long-established counterparts in Houston, her native city, and Los Angeles, long her adopted hometown. Completing her first New York financial-services project, for an asset-management group, has made her a bona fide player in the big league in Gotham— for her and many of her clients, it’s still the center of the world."Read the full article here.
Architectural Record covers Lauren Rottet's redesign of Siesmayerstrasse 21 for Paul Hastings LLP's Frankfurt office."Ranked second on the 2012 A-List of the American Lawyer, the Los Angeles–based Paul Hastings LLP is a 61-year-old firm with a progressive global vision—one that incorporates good design into a business strategy that aims to attract prime talent and clients with leading-edge facilities. So when the managing partners decided to open a Frankfurt office after a 2008 merger with the German firm Smeets Haas Wolff, they tapped architect Lauren Rottet to regenerate a high-profile 1950s location to reflect the open work style they embrace. Their new address is not only on a leafy residential street in Frankfurt's affluent Westend neighborhood next to the city's gorgeous Palmengarten and Botanical Gardens, it also has an intriguing architectural pedigree...Rottet, who has created more than a dozen interiors for Paul Hastings over the past 10 years, says, 'The building is a Modern gem, and I recommended that they lease it as soon as they showed it to me.'"Read the full article here.
Lauren Rottet talks to Contract magazine concerning hospitality's influence on workplace design."A movie director’s hope is that a film breaks new ground, engages its audience, correctly tells a story, inspires those who watch it, wins all the best awards and publicity, and becomes a classic that lasts for years. In short, the movie delivers pleasure. This is what I want for my design projects, as well. The occupants and their visitors should continually be served and inspired by the space. My firm Rottet Studio has been designing offices for many years, creating architectural environments that inspire and satisfy a company’s needs. But pressures for the office to perform for the client, as well as significant changes in today’s work environment, have caused us to rethink the way we approach office design."Read the full story here.
The January issue of Boutique Design magazine features a cover story on Designer of the Year Lauren Rottet."Lauren Rottet has logged 25 years as a serious curve wrecker in project design and process development. She's changed the boundaries of the the scope of work from delivering just another pretty space to 'improving the human experience through the built environment.'" Read the story here.
Interior Design magazine featured the new, Rottet Studio-designed Presidential Bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel in their January 2012 issue. Read the story here.
Opening this month after a $40 million redesign at the hands of award-winning designer Lauren Rottet of New York Surrey fame, The St. Regis Aspen has been transformed into a grand manor evocative of the illustrious Gilded Age. The five-star hotel’s brand new persona blends luxurious historic styling with a contemporary sensibility that visitors to Aspen will find both deeply intriguing and inviting. Read more here.
Long a resource for discerning hotel consumers, the Relais & Chateaux group is a collection of just over 500 hotels around the world that share a common “art de vivre.” They’ve just announced the addition of their only New York City hotel, the first Manhattan property in almost 20 years: The Surrey hotel, on the Upper East Side. Read more at Elite Traveler and BlackBook Magazine.
United Talent Agency, one of the world's largest talent and literary agencies, is moving its global headquarters to approximately 120,000 square feet in the 9336-9346 Civic Center Drive complex in Beverly Hills owned by Tishman Speyer, The complex is the former headquarters of Hilton Hotels Corportion and will be renamed UTA Plaza.
UTA plans to move 350 people to the Rottet Studio designed interiors, which will include a state-of-the-art 150+ seat screening room and other amenities. Rottet is also designing UTA's private outdoor spaces on the campus that will be used for events and entertaining.
Read more on Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Deadline.com.
On November 13, Lauren Rottet was honored at the 6th Annual Boutique Design Awards that took place at the Javits Center in New York. This designation was awarded because of her firm’s dedication to such distinguished design projects as The Surrey Hotel, the Presidential Bungalows at The Beverly Hills Hotel and The James Royal Palm hotel in Miami Beach.“Lauren Rottet leads a firm committed to improving the human experience through the built environment and has put that philosophy to work in such high-profile hospitality design projects as The Surrey Hotel in New York, the new Presidential Bungalows at The Beverly Hills Hotel and The James Royal Palm,” said Matthew Hall, editor of Boutique Design Magazine. “She also recently became the first woman to be named a Fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the International Interior Design Association. Clearly, she is a worthy recipient of our Designer of the Year designation.”“I am honored to be recognized by such a respected organization as the Boutique Design Awards,” said Lauren Rottet, President and Founder of Rottet Studio. “Throughout my career I have strived towards excellence and am happy that my work has been recognized with such a prestigious honor.”Read more about the awards here.