All articles by Toby Maxwell
Toby Maxwell
Hotel Focus – Seda Club Hotel, Granada
Crafted by New York-based Rockwell Group, the Seda Club Hotel in Andalusia seamlessly melds Granada’s Muslim heritage with modern luxury.
Bar & Leisure Focus : Back to the future
While we do not yet have hoverboards and flying cars, there’s always time for a little bit of imagination. Science fiction meets design fact in this collection of space age venues
Bar & Leisure Focus: On the beach
While many people do like to be beside the seaside, seafront environments demand buildings that are robust but sensitive, posing unique design challenges that are not replicated elsewhere
Bar & Leisure Focus – Meet John Burton
Meet John Burton the designer behind Merlin’s new World of Jumanji. Burton’s designs work hard to bring the fantastical and the dream-like to life in spectacular fashion
Toby Maxwell’s Flooring Focus Projects
Three projects on how to get flooring right. University of Surrey, Guilford; Insight Direct, Manchester; and StirrUps Bar and Restaurant, Eversham.
Toby Maxwell’s Hotel Focus Projects: A showcase of some of the hotel projects around the world
Showcasing some of the best and most innovative hotel designs from around the world, from the UK and Europe to as far flung as countries like Indonesia, China and even two unique examples from the Arab world
Toby Maxwell’s Hotel Focus Q&As
Dustin Wekesser, associate principle at CallisonRTKL on its scheme for the Grand Hyatt hotel in Kuwait, and Tim Rooney, project manager and principle at Jeffrey Beers International on partnering with the Hard Rock brand.
Bars & Leisure Focus: Q&A with Ewald Damen from Virgile + Partners
Creative change has been picking up pace since the pandemic. Ewald Damen, creative director at Virgile + Partners, says that clients’ understanding of factors such as sustainability, community, ethics, digital integration and entertainment have accelerated exponentially…
Bars & Leisure Focus: Project – Colonel Saab
COLONEL SAAB is an authentic and unique, luxury Indian dining concept in Central London created by entrepreneur Roop Partap Choudhary, who has carefully crafted the menu and art-filled destination as a ‘love letter’ to his family and India.