RD+D Honors 'Talk Shop' with Form + Function Innovation Award
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HBG Design is excited to announce that Restaurant Development + Design Magazine has Honored 'Talk Shop' at the Caption by Hyatt Beale Street Memphis with the prestigious Form + Function Innovation Award.
‘Talk Shop’ lounge will anchor One Beale’s boutique hotel
See full article in The Daily Memphian
A lounge called Talk Shop will anchor the ground-floor, public space of One Beale’s boutique hotel, Caption by Hyatt.
Memphis-based architecture firm HBG Design released a rendering and new information about the 136-guestroom hotel, expected to open next spring.
The nine-story hotel at 233 S. Front is connected to a sister hotel, the Hyatt Centric, which opened April 15 at Front and Beale streets. HBG Design also designed the Hyatt Centric.
Both are part of Carlisle Corp.’s One Beale, a riverfront development also comprising apartments, restaurants and a parking structure.
The boutique hotel will be the first Caption by Hyatt in the United States and only the second in the world, behind one in Shanghai, China, according to HBG Design.
The architecture firm designed Caption to be upscale “with a focus on creating social spaces that punctuate connection and interaction with their locale,” states the firm’s release.
The Caption design incorporates the front, two-story walls of the historic William C. Ellis & Sons Ironworks and Machine Shop building on Front. The guestroom tower will rise behind the walls.
“Conceptually, the integration of the historic Ellis façade serves as a distinguishing artifact that will be remembered and appreciated as part of Memphis history,” Joshua Love, HBG Design’s lead architectural designer, said in the prepared statement. The old, front walls’ “highly detailed ornamentation complements the contemporary brick hotel tower with authentic character,” Love said.
Talk Shop will be a lounge space, which will include a patio and beer garden set behind the old machine shop wall.
Tina Patel, the firm’s lead interior designer for the project, described in the release the atmosphere she and her colleagues seek to create.
“The interior design concept has a comfortable, refined ambiance featuring subtle references to the industrial roots of the hotel’s location highlighted with soft colored tones and metal accents,” Patel said.
And, she said, the guestrooms will feature custom furniture.
