Hospitality & Hotels
Hospitality spaces are places of arrival, comfort, service, gathering and return.
They need to create atmosphere, but they also need to work operationally, commercially and over time.
At studiospillane, we design hospitality, hotel and public-facing commercial interiors that support guest experience, staff workflow, service delivery, commercial outcomes and long-term value.
Our work spans restaurants, cafés, clubs, member spaces, hotel lobbies, bars, lounges, wellness areas, food and beverage precincts, social enterprise venues and other public-facing environments.
We consider how people arrive, move, wait, gather, dine, work, celebrate, rest and return. Good hospitality design can influence behaviour, improve flow, support operations, strengthen dwell, encourage repeat visitation and create a memorable connection between people and place.
Hospitality and hotel experience
Our experience includes hospitality, wellness and heritage renewal projects for The Tattersall’s Club, Gather Bistro at 80 Ann Street, the Café for the Common Good, hotel common areas and shared hospitality and amenity spaces within larger precincts.
In hotels, our approach considers the guest journey from arrival and orientation through to dining, social spaces, wellness and the transition between public and private areas.
Across these projects, we balance atmosphere with practicality. A successful hospitality environment needs to feel welcoming and memorable, while supporting service, circulation, queuing, acoustics, maintenance, flexibility, accessibility and commercial performance.
Guest and operator experience
Hospitality and hotel interiors are experienced through movement and use. Guests notice how they arrive, where they are greeted, where they pause, how easily they understand the space, where they sit, how comfortable they feel and whether they want to return.
Operators experience the same environment through service and workflow. They need efficient service paths, clear sightlines, durable finishes, workable layouts, flexible seating, well-considered back-of-house relationships and spaces that can adapt to different times of day, guest types and operational needs.
Our role is to bring these needs together, creating spaces that support both the guest and the operator while balancing visual identity, comfort, function and commercial value.
Place, identity and belonging
Hospitality spaces should feel connected to their context. We look for ways to reflect the character of a building, brand, community or place through materiality, light, craft, artwork, local sourcing and spatial experience.
In heritage environments, this requires particular care, balancing contemporary hospitality expectations with the character, history and longevity of existing places.
Across public-facing commercial environments, we aim to humanise shared spaces and make them more welcoming, useful and memorable.
Sustainability in hospitality
Hospitality and hotel interiors are often affected by changing brands, guest expectations, operational needs and refurbishment cycles.
We look for ways to retain, adapt and renew existing spaces, furniture, joinery and materials where possible, supported by durable materials, local sourcing, repairability and long-term value.
This approach is explored further in our Sustainability in practice work.
Selected hospitality and hotel work
Our selected hospitality, hotel and public-facing commercial projects demonstrate experience across restaurants, cafés, clubs, member spaces, hotel common areas, social enterprise venues and commercial precincts.
Each project responds to a different brief, site and operational context, but together they demonstrate how studiospillane balances guest experience, operational performance, business outcomes and sustainability in practice.
Detailed hospitality and hotels capability statement available on request.
Angela and her team have been a delight to work with. We have engaged them on a series of refurbishment projects, and we were very happy with their design expertise but also their time management and their pro-active and positive attitude. It seemed effortless to work with them. We have had some great feedback from other stakeholders also on the designs they produced.
What studiospillane do differently is that they make the process very easy and clear for us. Nothing is ever too hard, and they are always happy to look for alternative solutions. They also understand the budget constraints that we have to work with and are very adaptable to our needs at Minor Hotels. I would recommend the team to anyone needing interior design services!
Celine Caron, Senior Design Manager, Minor Hotels Australasia
| Brisbane Domestic Airport Southern Retail Upgrade
| Heritage Meeting Rooms at Tattersall’s Club
| The Café for The Common Good
| The Concierge at Tattersall’s Club
| The Conservatory at Tattersall’s Club
| The Health and Wellness Centre at Tattersall's Club
For new project enquiries, please contact us with a short outline of the site, scope, timing and project context.