The Suit Magazine

 Named AD.apt, the concept room explores the potential to combine smart and elegant design with advanced technology and lighting in a vision to achieve the holy grail of hotel-keeping – a room that provides a truly customised guest experience. AD.apt transforms through day and night. In one single space, the guest may work, relax, socialise and sleep as completely as if he, or she, were in several quite separate environments.

“As we increasingly live in a different way from a generation ago – enabled to do so by technology and
under pressure to do so because of global warming – the expectation is growing that we must have the
ability to transform our immediate environment,” says Maria Vafiadis, managing director of MKV Design. “For hotels, this is a really exciting opportunity. The chance to be different by allowing guests to fully customise  their experience.”

AD.apt is an orchestration of luxurious contemporary furniture specially designed by Maria Vafiadis founder of MKV Design to adjust to each incarnation of the room together with the soft furnishings, beautiful light fittings and stylish accessories that guests would expect to find in a five-star hotel guestroom. In the centre of the set is a large glass screen which, by way of projections, can transform from a multi-channel TV to video Skype screen to a multitude of artworks and much more. The room is controlled through pioneering, yet easy-to-use, in-room systems designed to deliver significant energy saving efficiencies for the hotel and personal choice to the guest who controls the environment via an iPad.

MKV’s design concept exemplifies how a guestroom that is, in effect, several rooms in one can provide hotel operators with the potential of greater revenue and hotel guests with an environment they can control to meet their needs. “More than ever before, hotel managers need to optimise their rooms,” says Maria Vafiadis. “We have suggested how this might be done while achieving the highest quality experience for the guest.”

MKV Design worked with a number of the most respected names supplying the hotel sector today in
the development of AD.apt. These included VDA, GIA Equation, MOB, Contardi, Brintons, Tektura, Moroso, Cassina, Baumann Dekor, Cliq Designs, Hypnos, Architainment and AC/DC. Also linked with the Sleep Event are the European Hotel Design Awards. This year MKV Design was honoured with the “Best Suite, Interior Design of the Year” for its creation of the Presidential Suite at The Romanos Luxury Collection in Costa Navarino, Greece.

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