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“Everything is custom, and lighting design is truly integrated into the space and concept now.” —Ali Bacon, Senior Project Designer
also lends itself to feeling more residential from a layout perspective.” She noted, too, that the team had to keep some existing stone in the lobby. Most of the historic elements, Bacon adds, just help to enrich the overall story.
With the Gettys Group’s rich portfolio of design work, which includes a range of hotels and resorts around the globe, drawing inspiration from differ- ent types of lighting and time periods serves as an inspiration for the team’s creativity.
“I am personally inspired by residential light- ing and period-specific lighting,” Bacon remarks. “Think, period-specific inspiration from FirstDibs. For the Hotel LeVeque, it was Art Deco and star and celestial fixtures that were the focus.”
For Bacon, this is an exciting time for the de- sign industry in terms of evolution, and of course, lighting trends. “Everything is custom, and lighting design is truly integrated into the space and con- cept now,” she states. “Now lighting is being used to enhance the design, instead of just being a light fixture on the ceiling.” 
The Art Deco vibe is a nod to the historic bones of the building and also provides a luxurious ambiance.
key,” Bacon continues. “All of the fixtures were made overseas. Most of them were designed and selected to fit the overarching concept and took quite a while to make. It was a long lead time.”
That wasn’t the only challenge in combining the hotel’s history and modern day design into a cohesive brand story and look. Working with exist- ing conditions was another. “There are many room types in the guestrooms because of this,” Bacon reveals. “That’s a challenge, but it’s also nice for the final outcome because it makes for non-typical guestrooms – the guest could end up in 30+ dif- ferent types of King or Queen rooms – which
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