The Clarion Hotel
Lapp’s Quay, Cork

The Clarion in Cork boasted a great location and great rooms. However, the ground floor was always cold and uninviting. A vast area with no furniture and cold stone floors, somehow it was a place where people would meet but would never stay long and would rarely purchase anything. The Ace Hotels and the Hoxton Hotel Group were reinventing the hotel lobby and so with our weekly travel to London at the time we completely got it when Andy O Neill of the Clarion Group asked us to look at Clarion Cork. Some dark blue panelling, old furniture mixed with new, a mixture of high and low seating, a quirky egg to hold private meetings and critically lots of sockets for people to plug in was the start. Then to make sure it wasn’t a cosy loss leader we put in a coffee station and staffed it! Very quickly it became a firm favourite with business folk and hipster alike and the profits soared for the hotel.

Details

Client: The Clarion Group
Status: Completed 2015
Photography: Andrew Bradley

Collaborators
Branding: New World
Joinery: John O’Connell
Loose Furniture: John O’Connell
Lighting; Hicken Lighting
Carpets : Hotel + Office Interiors Ltd.