Sleep 2015

Sleep, the hotel design, development and architecture event celebrates its 10th edition in 2015 when it returns to London’s Business Design Centre on 24-25 November. Over two days visitors can experience imaginative installations by award-winning design studios, gain insight from thought-provoking conference sessions with industry luminaries and discover products carefully selected for diversity, innovation and quality.

Sleep 2015 sees the design teams for the Sleep Set competition and Sleep Bar invited to take inspiration from fairy tales and folklore from around the world. Translating the ‘Wonder Tale’ theme into guestroom designs that will be realised at the show are Sleep Set contenders Shaun Clarkson ID, THE STUDIO at Harrods, Anita Rosato Interior Design, Oliver Heath Studio and Areen Hospitality. Each will explain their response to the brief during a conference session, with the winning team announced on Tuesday, 24 November at 7pm at the Sleep Bar (in association with Sleeper Magazine) - this year created by Conran + Partners.

The free-to-attend Sleep Conference is shaping up with new content to inform and inspire the future of hotel design. The 2015 programme combines topical panel discussions with celebrity keynotes such as award-winning creative duo Meyer Davis from New York and Martin Brudnizki, known for his recent re-design of the original Ivy restaurant and bar.

Making its debut is Sleep Essentials, rapid tutorials offering designers the chance to get ideas for their future projects from top consultants - from lighting and landscaping through to art and spa – all gathered in one room. Design Dream Team sees a dynamic panel comprised of directors from top hospitality design studios draw upon their encyclopaedic design knowledge to debate how to make design pay - with amongst others Margaret McMahon of Wimberly Interiors, Wilson Associates’ Tristan Auer, Ariane Steinbeck of RPW Design shaking things up.

Never shy of tackling the controversial topics, the Sleep Conference will discuss whether hotel designers even have a role at all in a digital world where “everyone is a designer now”, with Maria Vafiadis, founder of hospitality interior architecture studio MKV Design, and Rose Etherington, former editor of Dezeen and now founder of clippings.com contributing their viewpoint.

Sleep is on 24th & 25th November with a late opening until 8pm on Tuesday 24th when visitors can enjoy the design inspiration and networking opportunities during the show’s cocktail hour from 6.30-7.30pm. 

Sleep’s official Event Partner is the European Hotel Design Awards which will culminate in a dinner on the evening of Monday 23 November when the winners will be announced in a ceremony at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London.

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