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PGA National Resort & Spa

KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group

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Guests are immediately greeted in the bright and airy porte cochère.. - Mike Schwartz
As you walk through the porte cochère, you stumble upon sunken, semi-circular, decidedly 60’s conversation pits to lounge in. The 60’s inspired lobby is a great area to lounge while awaiting check-in for dinner reservations. - Mike Schwartz
The 60’s inspired lobby is a great area to lounge while awaiting check-in for dinner reservations. - Mike Schwartz
Guests are immediately greeted in the bright and airy porte cochère.. - Mike Schwartz

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
4.98
5.74
5.44
4.96
5.28
Adi Utama
Adi Utama Global Office Development at JetBrains
5
5
4
4
4.5
Jan Clostermann
Jan Clostermann Founder and Director at CLOU Architects
5
6
4.5
5
5.13
Maja Bernvill
Maja Bernvill Creative Director at Specific Generic
4
5
5
4
4.5
Sanchit Arora
Sanchit Arora Principal Architect at Renesa Studio
5
5
5
5
5
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Founder and Colour Specialist at Studio Justine Fox
5
6
6.5
5
5.63
Marie Hesseldahl
Marie Hesseldahl Partner and Head of Interior and Product Design at 3xn
4
5
5
4
4.5
Marie-Andree Busque
Marie-Andree Busque Director Interior Architecture at Sid Lee Architecture
6.7
7.2
7.2
6
6.78
Bin Ju
Bin Ju Founder and Chief Design Director at Horizontal Design
5
6.86
6.7
5
5.89
Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset Founder at Constance Guisset Studio
5
5
5
5
5
Islam El Mashtooly
Islam El Mashtooly Creative Director at OBMI
6
8
7
6
6.75
Jason Chan
Jason Chan Founder at Jason Design Group
4.01
5
4.33
5
4.59
Liyun Hao
Liyun Hao Founder and Design Director at EVD
5
4.84
5
5.56
5.1
Client
Brookfield Properties
Floor area
26843 ㎡
Completion
2021
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Tasked with repositioning and renovating the Resort in Florida’s Palm Beach Gardens, the interior designers researched both the city the resort calls home and the current state of today’s golf clubs as they conceptualized the golf club of tomorrow. Founded in 1960 by John D. MacArthur, Palm Beach Gardens was a city planned and fashioned to be one with nature – complete with a mighty Banyan tree proudly serving as the city’s symbol and center. With a strong conceptual foundation established, designers set their space plan layouts and design vision into motion.

The all-new PGA National Resort & Spa experience begins at the porte cochère, where guests are greeted by a tented arrival awning of crisp black, white, and poppy-colored striped cabana curtains. A grand lobby awaits just beyond. Here, a traversing path to the left leads to a private check-in area, guest elevators, and a sundries juice bar. To the right, guests find their way to the signature restaurant and specialty chocolatier shop.

Designers raised the main lobby area up two steps, truly elevating the space and making way for sunken, semi-circular, decidedly 60’s conversation pits. A central floating bar, the lobby’s focal point, sits against the windowed backdrop of silhouetted palm trees and boasts a monolithic bar and a larger-than-life, glimmering interpretation of the city’s beloved Banyan tree made from glass and twisted metal.

The design team took a decidedly tropical turn when conceptualizing the elevator corridors. Here, overscale hibiscus flowers and lush fern leaves will adorn corridor walls, while beachy-pastel corals and pinks stipple the custom runner underfoot. The inspiration spilled into the guest corridors, where an amalgam of sunset creams, hot corals and persimmon will be set against lime and lush greens, leading guests to the respire and repose of their rooms.

Cool tones and clean lines are “de rigueur” for this guestroom design, which will strike a perfect balance with that of the public spaces. The modern tropical concept lends a residential retreat feeling to the guestrooms. A relaxed-yet-posh palette of soft sepias and charcoal brown, grays, taupes, greens, corals, pinks, and bright white is highlighted throughout. Custom, vintage-inspired wallcoverings, plush area rugs, thickly upholstered headboards complete with moody bedside lighting, mid-century style soft seating, and lacquered and caned case goods are artfully arranged in a way that establishes a calm, collected look.