Mr. Neal Prince,
R.A., A.S.I.D
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InterContinental
Hotels
Historical
Background
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John B. Gates,
Chairman of the Board |
Robert Huyot,
Chairman of the Board |
Hans Sternick,
Chairman of the Board |
John P. Sutherland,
President Latin American Division |
Mario Di Genova,
President Europe/Africa Divsions |
R. Kane Rufe, Sr.
Vice President Far East/Pacific Division |
John C. Carrodus Sr.
Vice President of Services |
Neal A. Prince Vice
President Graphics and Interior Designs |
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Departmental Staff and Contractual
Designers: |
Kenneth Smith, ASID |
Charles R Alvey, Graphic
Designer |
Richard Simpson, Graphic
Designer |
Bill Embery |
Dale & Pat Keller,
ASID |
Joe Grusczak, ASID |
Trisha Wilson, ASID |
James Ray Baker, ASID |
Irene D'Alessio, Interior Designer |
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Arie deZanger,
IHC Photographer
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Who
is Mr. Neal Prince? Mr. Prince is a trained
Architect from Rice University, an Art
Historian, Art Collector and a person with a
vast passion for Motion Pictures and Theatre
History, especially Set Designs. These elements
came together to build a foundation to Mr.
Prince's skills, which later became recognized
as his ability for designing Hotel and
Restaurant Interiors. Mr. Prince incorporated
his own passions of above, into an
International branding philosophy that remains
as strong today as it was when he developed his
philosophy of Hotel and Restaurant Designs,
which is visible today, in Hotels worldwide.
But what makes Mr. Prince different? He was a
pioneer within this Industry, along with Dale
and Pat Keller, of Hong Kong, in designing
Hotels in countries that never had an
International Hotel presence. Mr. Prince, along
with Kenneth Smith (Interior Designer), Charles
Alvey (Graphic Designer), Richard Simpson
(Graphic Designer), William Embury (Interior
Designer), Joe Grusczak (Interior Designer),
James Ray Baker (Interior Designer) and Irene
D'Alessio (Interior Designer) and many others
were the first, to sent the standards for
International Hotel Interiors. And what is
incredible is that he did not have the grand
budgets that most designers have today. Mr.
Prince used local talents and products, when
available and appropriate, to augment his
designs, which, in return, allowed local
Artist, Gallery Owners, Merchants and vendors
to view InterContinental not as an invader,
but as a partner in creating new sources of
commence within the local economy. What is even
more unique in Mr. Prince being different, was
that Mr. Prince has always credited his
success, not in the terms of "I", but "WE". Mr.
Prince, being from Corsicana, Texas, has always
remained modest and respectful and always have
contributed his success due to the fact that
designing hotels is a "TEAM" effort, from his
Departmental Staff to his Professional
Associate Designers that he had brought on to
do a certain project for the vast inventory of
InterContinental Hotel holdings. This website
is to bring together the collections,
resources, stories and images documenting a
period of time, before computers, mobile
phones, fax's or video conferencing. This
website is to recapture the time when
International Hotel Design Industry remained in
its infancy before the growth and development
into what we have today as multi billion dollar
companies. Each Hotel on this website will
encompass how Mr. Prince and his Staff and
Professional Associates overcame the troubles
of designing Hotels, from a historic point of
view, to what was necessary to open the Hotels,
maintain the Hotels, and what lessons were
learned to be applied for the next project.
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Hotel:
Darius InterContinental Hotel
Location:
Persepolis, Iran
Architect:
Lead Interior Designer:
Neal A. Prince, R.A., A.S.I.D, Lead Designer
V.P. of Graphic and Interior Design Department,
InterContinental Hotel Group 1960-1985
Rooms:
- No Photograph is available at this
time-
How does Mr. Prince's identify an outstanding
Hotel?
Response: When you arrive at the Hotel,
telephone room service and order a club
sandwich to be delivered to your room. Once the
room service had delivered your requested club
sandwich, take a moment to access how it was
prepared, what materials they used to create
your club sandwich and then taste the sandwich.
Mr. Prince firmly believes, from 55 years of
travelling around the world that if a Hotel is
able to prepare the "simple" club sandwich
correctly, then that Hotel is being operated
correctly.
Restaurants/Lounges:
- No Photograph is available at this
time-
Meeting Facilities:
- No Photograph is available at this
time-
Images held by the Collection:
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STATEMENT
OF
INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL
INTERIOR
AND
GRAPHIC DESIGN
POLICY
BY
NEAL PRINCE
The approach to hotel design differs greatly
from interior design for an individual. The
latter is dictated by the aesthetic
environmental pleasures of one particular
person or family, whereas hotel design is a
coordinated effort between the functional
requirements if IHC Hotel Management and
Operations, the architectural concept and space
allocation, the desires of the local hotel
company, the limitations of restrictive
budgets, and the harmony and market of the
country in which a hotel is located – all
combined to produce a profit marking plant
reflecting the current international tastes of
a widely diversified market.
Although standardization would appear to be
desirable in a rapidly growing industry,
experience indicates the most successful
efforts are based on individuality related to
the country of origin rather than
standardization of design, but with an
overlying emphasis of international
standardization of quality and service.
Each hotel in each location produces its own
surveyed, conceptual, and operational
requirements of IHC, its own local interior
designers, and its own problems of local
availability and manufacturing; however, the
following outline of goals is generally
applicable:
A. To produce good design based primarily on
the functional needs and requirements of IHC
Operations in order that Management can
merchandise fully the facilities provided and
develop a high quality of service; this design
to be approached simultaneously along the
following avenues:
1. Concept (objectivity) – initiated by IHC
Operations and local Hotel Company (where
applicable).
2. Function (utility) – based on past
experience and current consumption of practical
innovation.
3. Construction (fabrication) – utilization of
local market facilities and methods wherever
possible.
4. Budget (feasibility) – dictated by market
surveys indicating the initial expenditure
warranted by projected profits.
5. Beauty (design) – a conglomerate result of
the thinking and ideas of all parties involved
coordinated into a smooth, compatible result.
B. To insure that the original design concept
and subsequent development of each project is
based not on the likes and dislikes of any one
faction but expresses the taste and insures the
comfort of the international guest; and also
utilizes, wherever possible, the trades,
manufactures and craftsmen as well as the arts
and crafts, ornamentation, styles, and
traditions indigenous to the country in which a
project is located.
-Director of Interior & Graphic Design
Hotel Development
Neal Prince, AID, ASID
The following Exhibit is a memorandum from
March 5th, 1971, by Mr. Prince's, regarding the
policy on "How to Design Hotel Guest Rooms",
from an Interior Designer point of view, by Mr.
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