Hotels, restaurants, tasting rooms, spas, private clubs, and retail — designed by a studio that treats each as a house we’d want to live in.
A guestroom should feel like a house we’d design. A restaurant should hold a conversation. A tasting room should let the wine do the talking.
Our hospitality and commercial work is an extension of the residential practice — not a separate discipline. The lime plaster, the tile, the linen, the quiet brass — all of it scales. What changes is the engineering behind it: durability specifications, operational flow, acoustic performance, permit coordination, and an FF&E program managed by the same Summerland receiver that handles our estates.
We take a limited number of commercial commissions per year — only those where the operator wants a genuinely residential sensibility, and where we can work as a design director from brand brief through opening-day styling. We do not do chain rollouts and we do not do offices measured in thousands of cubicles.
Ten- to forty-key independent properties where the rooms need to feel like a home we'd design — and the back-of-house needs to operate like a Marriott. We lead interior design from schematic through opening day, including guestroom prototyping, amenity programs, and pre-opening styling.
From a twelve-seat chef's counter to a two-hundred-cover dining room. We design around the menu — service flow, guest choreography, acoustic envelope, and the table as a stage. Millwork, lighting, banquettes, and tabletop specified with an operator's eye.
Our most-requested hospitality typology. We design tasting rooms, caves, hospitality lawns, and member lounges across Santa Ynez, Sta. Rita Hills, and Happy Canyon. We understand harvest cycles, club-member programming, and the climate coordination a serious cellar requires.
Wet rooms, treatment suites, contrast therapy circuits, and relaxation lounges — engineered for durability and designed for sensory calm. Our residential wellness work translates directly: non-toxic materials, circadian lighting, and acoustic isolation delivered at commercial scale.
Member clubs, creative studios, family offices, and private-practice workplaces. Hospitality-grade finishes with the operational requirements of a workplace — power, data, privacy, acoustic performance, and the kind of furniture that survives ten years of meetings.
Flagship boutiques, design showrooms, and by-appointment ateliers. Fixture systems engineered for product rotation, lighting tuned for merchandising, and a shell that elevates the object without competing with it.
Independent operators and owner-developers building their first flagship property.
Ground-up hotels, restaurants, tasting rooms, and spas. We lead interior design from brand brief through opening-day styling, coordinated with the architect, operator, and brand agency of record.
Operators in early diligence — before architect selection and before broker negotiation.
A written and visual brand platform before the lease is signed. Name direction, tone, material palette, signature moves, and a pro-forma-aware design vision that a broker, architect, and operator can all read from.
Hotels, restaurants, and tasting rooms three to ten years past opening.
An operating property in need of a second act. We audit the guest experience, re-specify FF&E and tabletop, rework lighting and signage, and deliver a phased installation plan that respects revenue.
Investor-operators and family offices running multiple properties.
For owners who have a designer of record but want a second voice on experience, materials, and operational quality. We visit, critique, and recommend — at a cadence and candor level an owner rarely gets in-house.
Most hospitality designers deliver a mood board and a furniture package. We deliver the whole operating environment — materials that survive, lighting that performs, service choreography that works, and a brand that reads at every touchpoint from the doormat to the cocktail napkin.
Our best hospitality work begins before the lease is signed — when the brand, the floor plan, and the operating model can still be shaped together. Reach out with whatever you have.