HD Expo 2019

Michael Suomi
President
Suomi Design Works


After more than 30 years of working in the architecture and interior design spheres, Michael Suomi launched his own design studio, Suomi Design Works, to meet the industry’s ever-expanding need for a high-level of creativity combined with deep expertise. Suomi Design Works is a conceptually-driven firm with Suomi leading the design of new hospitality concepts and iconic American properties. Most recently, Suomi Design Works has converted a historic 1920s warehouse located in Asheville, North Carolina into a 70 key, boutique hotel named The Radical. Similarly, the firm just opened The Pelham Hotel in New Orleans which previously existed as a mansion in the early 1800s. Formerly, Suomi was Principal, Co-Owner, and Vice President of Design & Marketing at New York-based Stonehill Taylor, where he pioneered and helmed an award-winning hospitality interior design division of 40+ people for over 15 years. His team worked on hotels such as the award-winning TWA Hotel at JFK Airport, the Aloft in Philadelphia, the Eliza Jane in New Orleans, the Limelight Hotel Snowmass, the Moxy Downtown, Sophy Hotel in Chicago, the Saint Kate Arts Hotel in Milwaukee, and Conrad Midtown in Manhattan, among others. He also managed Sourcing, Industrial Design, and Communications Directors, while overseeing Interior Design Marketing and PR for the firm.

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