Architects, designers and decorators are rethinking the way they design, build and furnish hotels and restaurants.
The focus today is on responsible, sustainable and rational approaches, and there is no shortage of innovations for environmentally-friendly living, even in the city.
Indoor spaces are merging with outdoor spaces, and nature is being brought into bedrooms and living rooms. Chaise longues by the pool are in. Things have changed, and so have the design rules.
Selection of 2024 exhibitors
The Signature areas in Pavilion 7.2 brings together editors of fabrics, wall coverings and carpets.
A top-of-the-range offer responding to a strong demand from specifiers and hotel professionals to create unique and customised atmospheres.
Designed as a village, each editors will present its latest creations for the contract market.
Come and discover l'Ameublement français (French Living in Motion) space, where you will find out about its unique partnership with OKKO Hotels.
L'Ameublement français has brought together an entire value chain (interior designers, hoteliers, manufacturers and project management assistants) to convince clients that co-design is the key to a successful interior design project.
At the show, the 2 new OKKO Hotels room concepts will be unveiled, designed by the Eroz and Laune Architecture agencies, in collaboration with French companies, and using a working method combining co-design and eco-design.
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The current trend where art and decoration play a crucial role in differentiating professional establishments.
EquipHotel responds to this new wave and gives artisans of art and decoration the opportunity to showcase their works to hoteliers, restaurateurs, and interior architects, with a dedicated space in the pavilion 7.3, at the heart of interior design, offering options tailored to various budgets."
EquipHotel offers a new vast inspirational space on the theme of unique accomodation and structure.
This is a real opportunity for hoteliers to broaden their offer by proposing a new experience in accommodation, catering or wellness areas.
Cabins, nature rooms, outdoor spa cabins, domes, greenhouses, gazebos... will all be on show in the Design section.
Exhibiting in the zone: Lumipod, Iglucraft, Crown Pavilions, Doviris
EquipHotel 2024 invites you to discover a new type of modular furniture.
This concept is called Plug-IN, and it comes in 5 parts: bed, dresser (with or without safe and mini fridge), desk, TV unit and bathroom unit.
The furniture can adapt to a hotel, student halls or serviced accommodation.
It will be assembled, dismantled and reassembled continuously over the 5 days of EquipHotel in Pavilion 7.2.
Find out more about Plug-IN:
The Plug-IN concept is the brainchild of designer Nathalie Dewez and interior designer Michel Penneman, both familiar with the hospitality sector. They have carried out many hotel projects, including M Gallery Le Louise, Scott Hotel, Urban Yard Hotel, White Hotel, Zoom Hotel and the Novotel Grand Place. What makes Plug-IN so special is that these furniture panels are made from milled particles of old furniture, and the lighting is designed ahead of time to be built into the dresser or desk from the design stage. This makes it easier to organise a work site, saves time, and reduces the end cost and the ecological footprint. For example, a project for a 100-room hotel equipped with Plug-IN furniture, with an overnight stay costing €150, will save €450,000 and 6 kilometres of copper cables, as well as reducing water and energy consumption and cutting construction time by 1 to 3 months.
Over the five days of the trade show, Material Bank will provide access to samples from a selection of exhibitors.
Architects, interior designers and more will be able to create moodboards in situ, using the computers provided.
Once you’ve logged in, you can source the materials using 150 possible filters and criteria (materials, colours, certifications, etc.), then place your order.
Cédric Martineaud, creative director of the 14 Septembre agency, is responsible for designing the wall of material samples in Pavilion 7.3.
Find out more about Material Bank:
Material Bank was launched in the United States in 2019, led by Adam Sandow, head of a design and architecture press group. It first arrived in Europe in 2023. The principle is simple: the idea is to help architects centralise their sample orders on a single website and receive them in a single box the very next day. The advantages are twofold. It’s fast and free for architects - all they have to do is register on the platform, specifying the type of project, its location, the current phase, etc. - and it means that manufacturers can find out more about the projects for which architects need samples. The results speak for themselves. In Europe, 300 manufacturers and 12,000 architects have already registered on the Material Bank platform, which delivers to 29 countries.
Know-how, excellence and design innovation from Italy, Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and other countries. Come join and discover our selection of innovative and promising companies who are reinventing Hospitality of the future and contributing to excellence in European innovation.
ITA Pavilion: Italy is showcasing the very best of its know-how in furniture, decorating and the art of entertaining in a pavilion featuring some sixty Italian design gems.
