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The Designer Creating Hotels That Feel Like Memory

By Isabel Moreira··9 min read
The Designer Creating Hotels That Feel Like Memory
Portrait by François Halard

The interviews with hotel designers tend to focus on materials and moodboards. This one begins, instead, with a childhood in a small town in the south of France and a grandmother who kept everything.

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Isabel Moreira

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Isabel Moreira

Travel and Design Editor

Isabel writes about hospitality, architecture and the cultural forces shaping modern travel. She has spent the last decade covering hotels, residences and independent design studios across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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