How textiles enhance the guest experience in the hospitality industry

Light control & privacy  

Curtains in a guest room serve both functional and aesthetic purposes, enhancing comfort, atmosphere, and light control. They allow guests to adjust brightness and privacy to their preference, creating a relaxing atmosphere. Our collection of flame-retardant curtains and roller blinds, designed with light-dimming properties and subtle hues, combines elegance with safety, making them an ideal choice for hospitality spaces. 

Our recommendations: 

• A transparent in-room curtain provides soft, diffused natural light while maintaining privacy during the day, and creates an airy and inviting ambience without blocking views. Our transparent curtains include Daybreak 2, Rocket, Noon 2, Air 4, and Zulu 2. 
• To ensure optimal sleep quality, a guest room benefits from a blackout window covering solution, such as Tonight, providing a restful and undisturbed environment. Our blockout roller blinds provide complete light control for enhanced guest comfort. Our solutions include Unlit Blockout in Closed cassette with profile side guides. 

Design and functionality

In guest rooms, sensory comfort is key to creating a space that feels both inviting and practical. The right textile solutions not only enhance the visual appeal but also contribute to the room's functionality and longevity.

Our recommendations: 

• In-room upholstered headboards add warmth and softness to bedding. Additionally, our selection of recommended textiles, including Haku, ensures durability, easy maintenance, and compliance with fire and safety regulations.
  
• Bedcovers and cushions shape a guest room’s identity, adding bold style, personality, and a distinctive sense of place. Textiles ideal for this purpose include our range of knitted textiles from Febrik, bold colours and patterns from Kvadrat/Raf Simons and extravagant styles from Sahco.
  
• Ensure comfort and durability for high-traffic furnishings such as desk chairs and luggage benches by selecting upholstery fabrics with a Martindale value exceeding 45,000. Options like Guest and Remix 2 are ideal. 
  

Acoustic quality

The quality of the acoustic environment plays a significant role in shaping the guest experience in lobbies and lounges, where conversations and activities are constant. The main challenge of large open spaces is the excessive reverberation, which could potentially lead to an overwhelming and noisy atmosphere.

Our recommendations:

• Enhance the acoustic environment by specifying a Kvadrat Acoustics solution with Soft Cells acoustic panels in the ceiling for the most optimal acoustic control. 
  
• Upholstered furniture and rugs help absorb sound, creating a quieter and more relaxing ambience. Our made-to-order rugs offer flexible sizing, ensuring a perfect fit for any space. 
• Integrating acoustic curtains in lounge and lobby areas enhances sound quality while also adding versatility to the space. Our selection of acoustic curtains includes Dawn 2, Drops Acoustic, Remix Flow, Highlight, Tonight, and Time Recycled. 

Thermal and visual comfort

Balancing light and temperature in lobbies and lounges is essential to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for guests and staff members. Excessive sunlight can lead to glare and heat buildup, making these spaces feel uncomfortable. Conversely, inadequate insulation can make them feel cold and unwelcoming.

Our recommendations: 

• Roller blinds and curtains with a metallised backing are an effective solution for managing thermal and visual comfort while reducing glare and controlling heat and insulation. Discover our metallised curtains: Casa Reflect, White Reflect, and Transparent Reflect – and our semi-transparent, metallised roller blind textiles: Apo, Clearview, Graphite, and Silvretta.

Design and functionality

Lobbies and lounges are high-traffic areas that must balance style, durability, and practicality. These spaces are an opportunity to make a strong first impression while serving as functional hubs for relaxation and interaction. 

Our recommendations: 

• To ensure furniture withstands heavy use while maintaining its visual appeal, we recommend to upholster seating with durable, timeless fabrics like those in our collection, such as Moss, Vidar, Steelcut Trio 3, Hallingdal 65, Coda, and Serpentine.
• Elevate the aesthetic with flame-retardant curtains that add warmth, texture, and elegance to the space, complementing its overall design. Our recommended curtains include Dawn 2, Tonight, Remix Flow, and Time 300.         

Acoustic quality

The dining experience in restaurants is deeply influenced by the acoustic environment. Excessive noise from conversations, kitchen activity, and background music can detract from the ambience, making it challenging for guests to enjoy their meal or engage in conversation. 

Our recommendations: 

• Specify a Kvadrat Acoustic solution for on walls and ceilings to reduce reverberation and improve speech clarity.
• Soft, upholstered seating and textile-covered partitions can also help absorb sound, creating a more intimate and comfortable dining atmosphere. 

Thermal and visual comfort

Creating a comfortable dining environment requires careful attention to temperature and lighting. Bright, unfiltered light or uncomfortable heat levels can distract guests, while poorly managed natural light can create an uninviting atmosphere at different times of the day. 

Our recommendations: 

• Install roller blinds with metallised textiles to regulate light and temperature effectively, allowing natural light to enter without causing glare or overheating. Our metallised textile collection includes fabrics such as Clearview – a textile that promotes the view towards the outside, Graphite – made from 100% recycled textile waste, Apo, and Silvretta – each designed to enhance your space with functionality and style. 
• Include sheer curtains to additionally soften the sunlight and add a touch of elegance to the space. Options include Noon 2, Daybreak 2, Air 4, and Zulu 2. 

Design and functionality

Restaurants require design solutions that not only captivate visually but also endure the demands of high-traffic spaces and daily use. Durable and easy-to-maintain textiles are essential, offering long-lasting functionality while enhancing the overall aesthetic of the dining environment.

Our recommendations: 

• Choose upholstery fabrics with high durability and easy-to-clean properties, such as those designed to resist stains and wear, ensuring furniture remains fresh and inviting over time. Here we have textiles as Reflect, Autumn, Field 2, Remix 3, Floyd, and Clara 2.
• Add character and warmth to the space with flame-retardant curtains or fabric dividers that also contribute to privacy between dining areas. Curtains as Dawn 2 and Drops Acoustic.