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Wall panel from the 2013 New York School of Interior Design exhibit "Designing the Luxury Hotel: Neal Prince and the Inter-Continental Brand."

The Frankfurt Intercontinental Hotel was built in 1963 on the site of the former park facing the…

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The south restaurant has a view of the Nizza promenade. Chairs are designed by Saarinen, manufactured by Knoll.

Architecture by Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert.

Interiors designed by Neal Prince.

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Structural rectangular piers were playfully echoed by decorative vertical stacks of alternating wood and glass hexagons, while other functional elements, like the shops, were encased in rectangular wood boxes with bulls-eye display…

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A circular firepit, unexpectedly tucked into a quieter area of the lobby and ringed by Saarinen black leather lounge chairs.

Materials: Marble, metal, wood, and fabric.

Architecture by Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert.

Interiors designed by…

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Prince employed Hein Heckroth, a German set and costume designer for the German national ballet who had moved to England in the 1940s to work on such dance-related films as The Red Shoes, to create handmade tapestries depicting characters from that…

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21st floor corridor: ceiling made of suspended plywood.

Architecture by Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert.

Interiors designed by Neal Prince.

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Photographic murals of city landmarks, blown-up, cropped, and rendered in a punchy, black-and-white graphic style, lined the corridors leading to the guest rooms.

Architecture by Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert.

Interiors designed by Neal…

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The Hotel Frankfurt InterContinental was built in 1963 on the site of the former park facing the promenade known as the Nizza, a four-acre Mediterranean garden that runs alongside the river Main. At the time of the hotel’s construction, Frankfurt was…
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