Jeanne Starling has been creating engaging hospitality environments for most of her career in design. With drive and passion, she is completely in her element establishing and leading high-performance design studios and equally comfortable fashioning a team of consultants to facilitate collaborative design efforts. Her colleagues and clients have come to rely on the combination of her charismatic leadership and her calm demeanor in the midst of complex project processes. She is unwavering in her attention to the overarching vision, as well as the finer details and is driven to make projects grow into their full potential.
MY VISION
Inspiring Places, Exciting Spaces
Great designs have roots in a storyline that can only come to life by first establishing the environment in which the stories can happen. Creatives don’t manufacture feelings or the vision; rather, they set the stage for the moments to happen, the feelings to be evoked and memories to be made by each individual who encounters that space and place.
It’s a bit like a novel – characters and plot lines are developed; a layering of details establishes authenticity; with all to be interpreted uniquely by each guest as they experience an entertainment venue or resort destination. Achieving the developer’s vision, while inspiring and intriguing the guest are the happy result of creating an immersive environment relevant to its location.
MY PROCESS
Great projects reveal themselves in stages, presenting the guest with opportunities for discovery, moments of relaxation and peace, occasions to be entertained and the prospect of pleasant surprises. Discovering hidden potential in an existing space or property is a call to use every resource available to transform it – whether it is termed a renovation, remodel, retrofit, refurbishment or adaptive reuse.
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Partnerships
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Programming & Scope of Work
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Storyline & Brand Essence
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Documentation & Specifications
Ideas don’t germinate in a bubble. A completed project is the work of countless collaborative efforts between the developer, owner, design consultants, suppliers, builders and operations specialists. These make up the “Who” Without the partnerships that form along the process of project development and each individual’s contribution, the vision cannot be fully-realized.
Defining the spatial and functional needs of each area of a property is essential to begin the process – determining the “What”
Establishing these as the program is developed will strengthen the platform from where the design will spring – explains the “Why”
Thorough and expertly coordinated documentation and specifications that minimize risk and maximize the endurance of the design – executing the “How”
