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…
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…
Intermezzo cocktail bar and lounge. The carpet, lighting fixtures, and wall sculptures were also designs Prince, who received international recognition for this design within the hospitality industry.
In the Carnival Bar and Lounge, Prince came up with the motif of the merry-go-round because it reminded him of the way that Geneva “picked up different cultures, different people…”
For the Hotel Intercontinental Genève, under the leadership of Prince, the Department of Interior and Graphic Design would create some of his most dramatic interiors. Conscious of the international dignitaries who would make up the clientele, they…