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When building and designing a place becomes a gesture of hospitality: architecture, construction and renovation of luxury houses.
Hotel Project Management: Owner’s Assistance in Hospitality
Optimize your hotel design with project management assistance: support for the renovation and construction of hotels and hospitality venues, combining the architect brief, quality and a unique guest experience.
June 19, 2026 · 3 min
Designing Hotel Architecture Around the Guest Experience
In hospitality, the true starting point of a project is not the building, but the guest. Every property should be designed as an answer to the experience…
June 8, 2026 · 6 min
What is a Palace? versus the “Palace de France” label
Between heritage definition and official label, a look at what truly makes a Palace hotel in France today, blending history and modern criteria.
June 2, 2026 · 10 min
Creating a hotel isn’t about building a building, it’s about creating a hospitality experience.
Creating a hotel means designing a hospitality experience first, well beyond architecture and decor. The role of the owner's project management advisor.
May 13, 2026 · 8 min
When design becomes a performance driver in the hotel industry
Interior design is emerging as a true performance driver in hospitality, on par with service and guest relations.
April 29, 2026 · 8 min
Successful collaboration between architects, hoteliers and investors
Discover how architects, hoteliers and investors can work together to design sustainable hotel projects, combining strategic vision and operational excellence.
November 11, 2025 · 7 min
Hotel decoration tips: think strategy, experience and sustainability
Discover how to design the decoration of a hotel with strategy, a sense of the customer experience, and sustainability to create a memorable and profitable hospitality venue.
May 19, 2025 · 8 min
Hotel and Architect: A Collaboration for an Exceptional Guest Experience
An architect and a hospitality expert must work hand in hand. My perspective on this essential collaboration for designing a hotel built around an exceptional guest experience.
February 28, 2025 · 1 min
Discover the EQUIPHOTEL Luxury Trail by Delporte Hospitality
I present the EQUIPHOTEL Luxury Trail, my personal selection of exhibitors who embody generous hospitality and the highest standards in the luxury sector.
January 16, 2025 · 3 min
Total Darkness in Hotel Rooms: A Strategic Issue for Hospitality
Sleeping in total darkness changes the quality of rest. I explain why blackout in the room remains a detail too often overlooked in hotels.
December 16, 2024 · 5 min
Floral Decoration in Hotels: The Invisible Strategy Behind the Art of Welcoming
Floral decoration is never a minor detail. In luxury hospitality, it shapes emotion, the sense of place and the memory guests take home with them.
December 16, 2024 · 5 min
Hotel Lighting: A Strategic Lever at the Heart of the Guest Experience
Lighting is never just a comfort detail. In luxury hotels, it shapes the guest experience, from the lobby all the way to the room.
December 16, 2024 · 4 min
Hotel Scenting: A Strategic Lever in the Service of Hospitality
A hotel's scent is never left to chance. I share why an olfactory signature is one of the true pillars of generous hospitality.
December 16, 2024 · 5 min
Contemporary Art in Hospitality, the Art of Standing Out
In my consulting work, I see contemporary art becoming a language of emotion and differentiation for luxury hotels, far beyond simple decor.
December 16, 2024 · 6 min
Art in the Luxury Hotel Industry
Laurent Delporte, luxury hospitality expert, discusses on BFM TV whether luxury hotels are becoming the museums of tomorrow, exploring contemporary art integration.
December 16, 2024 · 6 min
Home & bathroom products
Laurent Delporte, French expert in luxury hotels, offers his advice in the selection of hospitality products for hotels.
December 16, 2024 · 3 min
The Restoration of the Raffles Hotel Singapore
Drawing from his strategic and operational experience in luxury hotels, Laurent DELPORTE unearths the latest trends about The Restoration of the Raffles Hotel Singapore
November 19, 2018 · 11 min
The Art of Organizing and Furnishing a Hotel Room
Laurent Delporte, French expert of luxury hotels, discusses hotel openings as well as key considerations for organising a hotel room
September 26, 2017 · 6 min
Creating a Concept Hotel: Inside the Hameau des Baux
I talk with Eric-Jean Floureusse, founder of the Hameau des Baux, about creating a concept hotel between Provençal authenticity and the art of welcoming.
November 12, 2015 · 9 min
Isabelle Miaja, Interior Architect: Her Definition of the Art of Welcoming
Isabelle Miaja, architect and designer, shared her vision of the French art of hosting with me: a savoir-vivre that reinvents itself between heritage, Haute Couture and generous hospitality.
June 26, 2015 · 8 min
From Pre-Opening to Opening Day at the Four Seasons Resort Dubai
I visited the Four Seasons Resort Dubai a few weeks before its opening: the rooms, the spa, and the energy of a team preparing to welcome its first guests.
December 1, 2014 · 3 min
Renovating the Plaza Athénée Bar: Rethinking the Guest Experience in a Parisian Palace
Looking back at the 2014 renovation of the Plaza Athénée bar by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku, and how a Parisian palace evolves without losing its soul.
November 18, 2014 · 6 min
Plaza Athénée Paris: Decorating a Palace Hotel Through Time
For fifteen years, I have watched Marie-José Pommereau reinvent the suites of the Plaza Athénée with consummate skill: changing everything without ever changing anything.
November 13, 2014 · 6 min
Vincent Beaurin at Cheval Blanc Randheli: When Contemporary Art Becomes a Lever for Hospitality
At Cheval Blanc Randheli, Vincent Beaurin's artworks show how contemporary art can become a genuine lever for generous hospitality in luxury hotels.
June 19, 2014 · 5 min
Being Somewhere Other Than Home: How Hotel Architecture Creates the Guest Experience
With architect Réda Amalou of AW2, I revisit the sense of place: how hotel architecture becomes the first gesture of a memorable experience.
April 11, 2014 · 6 min