Our creative interior designer, Amber-Rhiannon Gibson, was pictured in the City Scene: Next Generation section of the May-June edition of Hospitality Design Magazine. She was photographed at the kick-off cocktail party for the HD 2009 Hospitality Design Expo and Conference. The invitation-only networking party was held at the Whiskey Blue on the rooftop of the new W Atlanta/Buckhead hotel and was attended by 125 top designers, architects, purchasers and owners. The exclusive invitations are a hot-ticket item, and Amber-Rhiannon did a great job representing Monolith Hospitality.
Monolith Hospitality, always interested in maintaining the cutting-edge in interior design, sent Amber-Rhiannon to Las Vegas for a week in June to attend HD’s Expo and Conference 2009 to research the latest in design resources and services among the 1,200 show floor exhibitors. The Expo is a great place for networking and meeting prominent designers who share their ideas and share information about their latest projects. For example, Amber met and was photographed with celebrity designer Thom Felicia of Bravo channel’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Todd Oldham, a mentor on Bravo’s Top Design, who introduced her to their new line of carpets.
While in Las Vegas, she also attended educational conferences and took backstage tours of two of Las Vegas’ most prominent hotels, the Hard Rock Hotel and the Encore Hotel. Amber feels the high point of her trip was a two-hour, in-depth tour of Wynn Design and Development’s spectacular Encore Las Vegas. The tour was personally guided by Encore’s principal interior designer, Roger Thomas. Thomas is the creative force behind designing the most important properties on the Las Vegas Strip including the Mirage, the luxurious Bellagio and the incomparable Encore. According to Amber-Rhiannon, “Mr. Thomas and I share the belief that travel, information technology and a comprehensive education in art history are fundamental elements in creative innovation.” Amber believes the Expo was an exciting and inspirational experience that she plans to repeat every year.
