This architecture and interiors briefing examines two ways hospitality design is being shaped: through interihotel’s broad platform for products, projects and professional exchange, and through Million Goods’ conversion of a Brooklyn space into a layered bar, hi-fi and retail environment. For photographers, both offer lessons in documenting material contrast, spatial sequencing and branded interiors.
interihotel
interihotel positions hospitality design as a meeting point for architecture, interiors, products, technology and business, with attention to hotels, restaurants and other hospitality spaces. Its latest edition, interihotel BCN25, brought together 11,675 professionals from 53 countries and 291 exhibiting brands, while identifying more than 2,500 active hospitality projects. The event spans furniture, lighting, materials, textiles and contract solutions, alongside innovative projects and concepts. For photographers covering design fairs or hospitality commissions, that breadth suggests a varied visual brief: compare finishes, lighting systems, textiles and furniture arrangements, while also recording how products are presented within spatial concepts. The scale of the gathering makes it a useful place to study emerging hospitality aesthetics and the contexts in which brands expect their work to be photographed.
Gjergji Shkurti integrates bar, retail and hi-fi at Million Goods in Brooklyn
Architect Gjergji Shkurti converted Million Goods’ second Brooklyn location into a two-level environment that moves from hospitality to retail. In Fort Greene, the social spaces occupy the lower floor while retail sits above, with an expansive courtyard helping distinguish the larger site from the brand’s single-level Greenpoint store. A Breccia Pernice marble countertop forms the wine bar, while metallic speaker boxes are integrated into custom sapele-wood casework finished in a peca tone. A glossy red spiral staircase is visible through the windows facing DeKalb Street. The project gives photographers several connected but distinct subjects: material close-ups, the staircase as an exterior-facing graphic element, and wider frames that explain the separation between social and commercial zones. Photographing the transitions, rather than isolated furnishings, will best communicate the concept.