Design & Longevity in Practice: What luxury lifestyle, wellness, and longevity means in hospitality design - Panel Talk w/ AMAN Resorts, Manhattan, NYC 2025

Designing to hold space for awareness in vitality.
How the details in sound, smell, touch, sight controls the environment around us.

"And they asked, 'How are memories formed?' 'Memories are formed when an idea, an experience, an event pushes you outside of your boundaries, or introduces you to something totally new that you didn't expect.'"

The hotel group, AMAN, they describe making memories, and how they understand their clients so well, that they reverse-engineer the memories for them, as in, they know what time their clients wake up, what time they have coffee, when the sun rises, what time they leave the space, and when they return.

And in those moments of knowing, they attempt to make a memory. "In the process of doing that - that 1 second moment of opening your eyes, and seeing the sun come through the curtains, or seeing the mist in the water - that single moment , if done right, can possibly last 5 years."