BDNY 2024 hosts a hospitality brand press tour

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CHECKING IN

In the second and final day of Boutique Design (BDNY) at the Javits Center here in New York on Monday, BDNY gave DANIEL PLUS LAUREN a look at key brands offering up beautiful experiences. The BDNY space entirely is a walking vacation as hotels and restaurants not only order items for their commercial properties, but get to envision how they can honor their patrons and guests with unforgettable rooms, bathrooms, and eating establishments. If it’s not often that you get to stay in a five-star hotel like the Marriott, Wynn, or Ritz-Carlton, you get that exact feel once you see the brands that make your hotel room or suite something you won’t soon forget. Helping to make your hotel and restaurant experience a memorable one on this press tour were Havwoods, Lubertex International, Native Trails, Carnegie, and Nemo Tile + Stone.

HAVWOODS

Stepping into a room, your guests and patrons want an instantly stimulating experience they’re excited about. The warmth of a room is one thing, but it takes a sketched out commercial plan to lure sales and profits in. Havwoods provides wood needs that are not artificial, their wood products are made of real wood and birch wood. Combine the two woods and you have beautiful hardwood floors that are easy to install where all it takes is glue to install, and 2 days to settle for room temperature. Another part of Havwoods is manufacturing marble, but they’re not in the marble business, it’s taking all of Havwoods real and recycled wood stock and creating wood tiles, designed and colored to look like marble. You also have tables, desks, and vanities made by Havwoods that are all around phenomenal when you step into a room. You can install damp, but not wet. And Havwoods is for one sustainable.

LUBERTEX INTERNATIONAL

It’s time for a minor, but major lesson in hotel management, start at the top, the only reason why Marriott, Intercontinental, and Ritz Carlton are beloved highly… is quality. Seems general, but it’s true, now let’s break it down to a towel, a bed sheet, and a robe, all play a pivotal role in your stay, and are the first to greet you after you tap your room key once you’ve checked in. Meet Lubertex International, they’re the ones who put one thing in mind first, the fabric. Seeking out fabrics from around the world, Lubertex International prides themselves using one type of fabric, one strand, and one tweed to make their hotel bedsheets, bathroom linens, and iconic bathrobes you see with your stay at the Ritz Carlton. Thanks to its one strand, one thread production of high quality, Lubertex International items can survive commercial laundry for 125 washes. It’s all about high quality fabric in high quality production, keeping up with demand where the 3 to 5 year old has its own robe.

NATIVE TRAILS

Just when you couldn’t be more enlightened behind the planning of a five-star hotel such as those mentioned in Lubertex or Wynn Resort in Las Vegas, Native Trails take sustainable nature to a higher level. Walking into its booth, you are welcomed by their native stone Avalon concrete tub, painted in turquoise, 64 by 72 inches deep, not implanted in the floor. Soon after, we were introduced to bathroom vanities made with natural wood from all places, sinks made with concrete, stone treated with Tuff Skin, and precious metals by copper, silver, bronze, and gold… 24 karat gold. Metals are handmade in Mexico, no machine processing, shaped by hammers, and finished by fire. If you check into a five-star Ritz Carlton or Hilton, Native Trails will be there to welcome you, with their natural stone, precious metals, and Forest Stewardship Council certification, deeming Native Trails as a sustainable corporation.

CARNEGIE

A good measure of reading into another human being is judging them by their surroundings, sometimes you’ll be accurate. But if want to boil it down to where they went on vacation, you must see pictures of where they stayed, where they ate, and where they went to the spa. All of those vacation aspects have one thing in common, their walls are the surroundings, and make up the look and feel of the destination. Carnegie manufactures upholstery, wall coverings, xorel, curtains,and plush wall pieces that are patterns and wovens made up of truly sustainable materials that have been given the holy grail of sustainability standards. There is one thing that Carnegie stands against, vinyl. Vinyl is very harmful to the environment with its chemical based and non-sustainable manufacturing. Carnegie is the only commercial textile manufacturer to achieve a Certified B Corporation status. Wall tilings and curtains coming in bright copper patterns, blue variations, gray textures, blends of polyester, even wall portraits which all can block out sound and align with acoustics provide powerful impact to your space. Some of Carnegie’s items can even be washed in bleach up to a certain chemical ratio, colored or not. And going back to the Certified B Corporation status, others make claims of sustainability, but don’t live up to it. Prices start at $35 a square foot.

NEMO TILE + STONE

The final stop on the BDNY press tour takes sustainability to more than its preconceived notions, we seek out the original sustainability poster child of them all, stone. Welcome to Nemo Tile + Stone, who take ceramics, cement, porcelain, and stone primarily from Italy to produce such fine surfaces you will definitely find in the bathroom, the kitchen, the sink, and even on the floor. Walking through the Nemo booth, you couldn’t help but touch the array of smooth porcelain alone which you thought was stone, but produced so beautifully, you walk away enlightened to sleek colors and surfaces on the wall. Beauty and sustainability do not have to cost a fortune, not for the consumer, and not even for the commercial hotel or restaurant establishment. Nemo Tile + Stone is priced at just $129 a square foot, creating budget flexibility to allow for hotel and your home alone to dream big.

CHECKING OUT

From what you’ve seen here, BDNY is a vacation destination one didn’t expect when on the show floor. BDNY teaches you what hotel and restaurant hospitality brands do to create and improve upon their five-star experiences. For platforms like DANIEL PLUS LAUREN, seeing each booth whether its brand, realty, or hospitality group immediately triggers you to layout what the article will be like. But soon after learning about the brand, it turns from article to your very own hotel experience while sights and facts are being laid out. Take this press tour that DPL took you on to plan out how you want your lodging and restaurant business to look like. Even if you’re an AirBnB vendor, you can give your guests a full on full five-star experience at the price range you desire, high or low depending on your vision. Most of these brands also work closely with residential clients, but do a whole great deal commercially, because thousands of patrons and guests pass through everyday, and particulars top to bottom is king. You are free to move about your vision of a successful hospitality business, BDNY hopes to see you again real soon. Safe travels!!!

DANIEL QUINTANILLA