InterContinental San Francisco

Targeted for completion in Fall 2019, the renovation will feature a refreshed cosmopolitan design inspired by the hotel's vibrant location and city history. BraytonHughes was responsible for re-imagining the hotel's guestrooms, corridors, and meeting and event spaces while EDG Design was responsible for re-designing the lobby, arrival, and restaurant and bar spaces.

When the InterContinental San Francisco opened 11 years ago, critics praised the clean, crisp interiors designed by BraytonHughes Design Studios. Now, the hotel has turned to BraytonHughes to refresh the interiors that the firm designed a decade ago. The goal was to create a timeless cosmopolitan look, transforming the hotel to an even higher state of modern elegance and luxury in accordance with the BraytonHughes' philosophy of "total design" - encompassing space, interior architecture, furniture, art, and decorative objects chosen with an artistic sensibility.

The design brings a residential quality to the guestrooms, reflective of a luxury San Francisco apartment. The refresh introduces a new color palette and a crisper, tailored style that is evinced in the carpet, the upholstery, and the modern textile wall coverings in the guestrooms. The pinstripes in the gray carpet call to mind a modern, finely tailored suit, a theme carried throughout the rooms with suit-like buttons on the bed skirts outlined with striping of International Orange, the official color of the Golden Gate Bridge. Each floor of the meeting and event spaces is lined with art and custom transit maps from a significant year in San Francisco history, including the 1915 Panama-Pacific World's Fair and the 1967 Summer of Love.