Four Seasons Hotel Seattle, other properties complete renovations

A number of hotels have completed renovations in recent weeks. Here are a few notable projects to know about. 

Four Seasons Hotel Seattle

The Four Seasons Hotel Seattle has redesigned its two premiere suites—the Presidential and Governor’s Suites—as well as 10,500-square-feet of meeting and event space.

For the suite renovation, Four Seasons enlisted Los Angeles-based Wimberly Interiors, who also designed the guestroom refresh in 2019. Inspired by Elliott Bay and surrounding mountains, the new palette blends modern architectural features with basalt and light wood finishes.

On the Hotel’s 10th floor, the one-bedroom Presidential Suite includes a living room, formal dining room for 10, original artworks on loan from private collections and a built-in fireplace. The space also has a minikitchen, bar seating for three, a fitness studio and custom furniture. The Governor’s Suite on the ninth floor includes a living room and dining room connected by a double-sided fireplace, as well as a bedroom with floor-to-ceiling windows. The dining room seats six.

The updated meeting space has carpeting that evokes the light on Puget Sound, piers, and the sky in tones of blue and gold. San Francisco-based design studio EDG completed the new look for the meeting space as well as the Goldfinch Tavern. Existing ash finish-work in the main ballroom is balanced with cool gray slate tile.

Kimpton Brice

In Savannah, Ga., the Kimpton Brice has completed a full-property refresh that included the hotel’s lobby, guestrooms, corridors, meeting rooms, pool terrace, secret garden and on-site Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar. 

Los Angeles-based interior and architectural design firm Forchielli Glynn developed the hotel’s new look. The lobby has a communal sofa along with fringe chairs, iron rod artwork {symbolic of historical gates and entryways to Savannah estate homes} and gold accent fixtures. Various seating layouts were developed to create meandering pathways encouraging flexible socialization, including a custom-made cane settee to create a literary corner with books and a movable beverage cabinet for the afternoon social hour.

The full restoration of the 145 guestrooms, which includes 25 suites, pays homage to traditional qualities found in Southern homes and reimagines that with contradictory elements—hard and soft, colorful and quiet, energetic and restful, playful and serious, tailored and lush. A color palette of gray and white evokes the city’s history, connecting to its native brick color with the infusion of greens and fuchsia linking to the secret garden and the squares and homes surrounding the area. Natural wood-look flooring creates a background of individuality. The enhancements also include completely remodeled bathrooms and vanity areas with glass shower enclosures with hex patterns and subway tile to tie into the industrial history of the building. 

With accent shades of bright summer colors, the refreshed concepts for the pool terrace and secret garden slightly differentiate from the rest of the hotel, while creating a thread of continuity through a black-and-white base palette. The pool area now has all-new chaise lounge chairs, tables and umbrellas, and the secret garden has more designated areas for outdoor dining, including bench seating. The cocktail area in the secret garden now includes a concrete communal table with a nearby fire pit. 

Homewood Suites New Orleans

In Louisiana, the Homewood Suites New Orleans unveiled a multimillion-dollar, music-themed renovation. 

The top-to-bottom renovation of the 166-suite hotel touches every aspect of the suites and public spaces. Guestrooms have been upgraded with new furnishings, soft goods and both wall and floor coverings. The two-story lobby area and new front desk have images of New Orleans’s music heritage. A regulation-sized shuffleboard game brings a bit of playfulness some friendly competition to the space.

W Punta de Mita

In Mexico, the W Punta de Mita has completed a $3 million renovation of its guestrooms, oceanfront suites, restaurants and public spaces that evokes local nature. At the resort’s newly redesigned Living Room and Welcome Area, modern furnishings decorated with handmade native artwork bring the local culture in while a brand-new boutique called La Caty is dedicated exclusively to local designers. Redesigned interiors with hammocks and lounging spaces are adjacent to a bar illuminated with a chandelier designed to look like votive candles on a church ofrenda and centered around a runway made up of more than 750,000 individual mosaic tiles with designs inspired by the local Wixarika tribe. 

The guestrooms have custom décor sourced from local artisans in the traditions of the native Huichol tribe, with bursts of color and homages to the area’s bohemian surf culture. The resort’s jungle rooms have been reimagined with new plunge pools, outdoor showers, hammocks and plush loungers. The property’s newly reimagined Haven suites have private terraces and new gardens and fire pits. 

With a design that’s inspired by the legend of local tribes who fled from the desert to the mountains during the Spanish conquest, the redesigned beachfront suites have organic colors and materials, woods and textures reminiscent of the earth. The bathrooms have plants and floors made up of a mosaic of smooth, round stones. 

The resort introduced an additional eight new suites; five beachfront suites with large soaking tubs set within indoor gardens; two beachfront suites with private rooftops; and a completely redesigned signature E-Wow suite that has a kitchen with white marble walls and countertops and an an ocean-facing living and dining room with floor-to-ceiling glass windows.

The redesigned pool deck got new boho-inspired furnishings. A beachfront seafood restaurant is slated to wrap its renovation later this year. 

Courtyard by Marriott Denver Tech Center

The 155-room Courtyard by Marriott Denver Tech Center in Colorado has completed renovations to its exterior, guestrooms, fitness center, lobby, courtyard and bistro. The hotel is owned by Clarion Partners and Barth Construction led the renovation project. Each of the guestrooms got updated bedding, new carpeting, furniture, wall coverings and draperies. 

The property also got a Topgolf Swing suite with two interactive bays,, powered by Full Swing Technology. Each suite offers lounge seating with HDTVs. Each bay can host up to eight people at a time.