HD Expo 2019

Glen Coben
President
Glen & Co. Architecture


In April 2000, Glen Coben opened his architecture and design firm, Glen & Company in order to provide customized designs that realize a client’s vision while also engaging their customers. There is a trend in the market towards collaborative design that enhances a guest experience while reinforcing a brand’s core values. Coben’s successful projects demonstrate that brands can integrate into the lives of their customers, but it needs to be in a seamless way that adds to the experience. Glen & Company’s projects span continents and include the design of many hotels, restaurants, retail stores and residential projects, and the hospitality and design communities have recognized Glen’s hospitality design and leadership acumen on multiple occasions. His extensive portfolio includes hotel repositioning and renovation, new builds, restaurants, residential, retail, corporate offices, and showrooms, as well as the development of brand prototypes and guidelines, Glen has partnered with most of the global brands Glen & Company projects have been featured in Hospitality Design, Metropolis, Interior Design, and Architectural Digest and have been cited in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His firm’s design for Romera Restaurant was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2011. Glen Coben is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Hotel School at Cornell University’s College of Business. Additionally, he is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of HD Magazine as well as a member of the Board of Advisors of Culintro, a culinary trade organization whose mission is to establish a source that will provide insights on major trends and serve as a gateway to influence culinary industry development.

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