Rottet Studio’s living room design at Milano Design Week 2024, featuring pieces from Rottet Collection: The Aurora Table II with glowing golden yellow cast glass legs, the Cross Bar Table with a bronze and smoke glass base, and the Dichroic Table. Photo: Tomaso Lisca and Luca Argenton


 


Rottet Collection 
Elevates Home Interiors
with Luxury Hotel Style



by Benjamin Genocchio

All photos courtesy Rottet Collection unless otherwise noted





Architect, interior designer, and furniture and lighting designer Lauren Rottet, the award-winning, multi-faceted principal of Rottet Studio and Rottet Collection. Photo: Chris Coe

Have you ever enjoyed staying in a luxury hotel room so much that you wished you had the same furnishings at home? 


That is how Rottet Collection began, according to Kyle Rottet, Marketing Director of Rottet Studio, an international architecture and interior design studio. Founded in 2008 by the Hall of Fame designer and architect Lauren Rottet, she was the first woman to be elevated to Fellow status by both the American Institute of Architects and the International Interior Design Association. 


Rottet Studio boasts an impressive list of corporate, hospitality, residential, and maritime clients, having designed interiors for over 75 luxury hotels, as well as other properties, including Central Park Tower, 200 East 83rd Street, Rivage Bal Harbour, and several Ritz-Carlton residences. “We kept getting calls from hotel guests who wanted to know where they could source a bed, nightstands, lamps, or furniture from rooms they had stayed in,” Kyle says. “So we made our designs readily available to residential clients as a collection.” 




Left: The New Canaan Lounge Chair is named after architect Philip Johnson’s Modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The clear acrylic seat of the chair reveals the architectural lines of the stainless-steel frame, inspired by Johnson’s iconic ode to transparency and reflection. Right: Originally designed for use in a ship’s cabin for one of Rottet Studio’s maritime projects, the Float Tray Table has elegant, narrow dimensions, making it an ideal fit for tight spaces. Upturned edges kept objects from sliding off in rough seas, here they offer a warm, organic frame for tabletop styling. The Ovo Ellipse Mirror is one of three shapes in a series of mirrors reflecting Lauren Rottet’s fascination with the California Light and Space artists, who often hid mirrors within their work to manipulate the environment.



The idea for Rottet Collection was conceived in 2017, but the company didn't begin to promote it nationally until 2022. There are 125 products in the collection, from beds and nightstands to sofas, dining tables, chairs, and lighting, all made to order.  “We don't stock anything,” Kyle explains. “All our designs are handcrafted and custom-made, so a designer or a residential buyer can select a product and specify a particular finish that speaks to their style. We believe furniture is an extension of a person’s personality, and by offering this freedom of choice, we allow our clients to express themselves.” Rottet Collection also offers a range of color palettes and different upholstery types.


Lauren Rottet, founding principal and president of Rottet Studio and the design force behind Rottet Collection, says, “materials and manufacturers for Rottet Collection products are sourced and produced all over the world by the same manufacturers that we trust for our luxury hotel clients and at the same quality. Through trial, error, and proven results over decades of design experience, we have identified only the best artisans of their craft to hand make each piece specific to their skills,” she says. Wooden Float Chairs in the collection, for example, are hand-carved in Thailand, glass is blown and etched in Italy, and stone is sourced from around the world.



The hand-carved Wood Float Chair and Wood Float Bench are designed to enhance the experience of a room with an ever-changing display of reflections and shadows. Also shown (from left) the original faceted Powerful Table equipped with charging ports, the Aurora Table II, the Ovo Arc Mirror, and the swiveling Entoure Chair. Photo: Chris Coe



“We do meticulous research on materials and sourcing to make sure everything is manufactured not only at the highest quality, but with durability and sustainability in mind,” Lauren says. “We live in an age where most products are produced at the lowest possible cost and ultimately end up in landfills after they are discarded, but Rottet Collection offers products that are intended to be passed down for generations, and all are made from sustainable materials.” Wood, glass, and metal can all be recycled, and the rattan they use comes from palms that are quick to rejuvenate and biodegradable. 


Every Rottet Collection product design is conceived with a clear functional purpose. “Whether we see the piece as filling an obvious need in the marketplace, something designed for one of our projects, or simply the desire for something beautiful to exist in the world, every product is thoughtful, practical, and durable,” Lauren says. “We design each product with purpose and precision and allow access to high design at competitive prices. The only difference is that Rottet Collection products are built to last and be admired as functional works of art.” 


Decades of luxury hotel design experience have given Lauren a sensitivity to today’s evolving lifestyle needs. Side tables, beds, and seating designs contain carefully concealed charger stations, with multiple cable options. Seating designs and fabrics are focused on comfort, wearability, and ease of access, while versatile glass-top table designs integrate into formal or informal dining settings. “If luxury hotels regularly require renovations every 3 to 5 years due to average wear and tear from high traffic, you can expect to keep these same design products in your home for a long time,” Lauren says. 



The Essex Bed has a floating wooden frame with a leather headboard wrapped in metal banding, incorporating twin recessed nightstands with downlit mirrored glass compartments to create a warm ambience. 



Lauren insists that an attention to functionality does not come at a cost of aesthetic considerations. “We think about an object in a space holistically, as part of an interior design, but want it to stand out on its own. Our Wood Float Chair, for example, is hand-carved wood with bulletproof pieces of acrylic sitting within the seat and back of the frame. It is designed to create a moment of mental reflection, to pause and appreciate the items you use daily. Due to its transparent qualities, it also casts dramatic, elongated shadows that play in the room throughout the day."




The effects of transparency, light and reflections make the Dark and Stormy Table (left) and the Dichroic Table (right) unique in every setting. The Dark and Stormy Table combines clear and colored hand-poured resins in a variety of saturated tones to capture light and glow from within, casting dramatic shadows in the surrounding space. Photo: Pernille Loof. A design evolving from Lauren’s fascination with early Light and Space artists, the award-winning Dichroic Table changes with the movement of light throughout the day. The surfaces of the table shift color dramatically, reflecting and refracting colored shadows to create a dialogue with the environment. Photo: Tomaso Lisca and Luca Argenton.



Lauren says the Rottet Collection does not have a “house style.” However, inspiration for many pieces comes from the Californian Light and Space art movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, during which artists took perception of space or an object in space as their subject matter and invited viewers to contemplate ways light transformed shapes, materials, and the overall art experience.




Left: With a stone or wood top that appears to hover over its clear acrylic base, the airy Float Dining Table takes minimal visual space in a room. Shown with the Shaker cabinetry-inspired Structured DIning Chair. Right: The Structured Lacquer Chair is a fun reinterpretation of a traditional chair, inspired by fashion and featuring a high gloss frame with your creative mix of leathers, hides or furs.



“Every piece in the collection has some form of kinetic energy, so we see it as more than furniture,” Kyle explains. “Every piece reflects or refracts light, or is designed in such a way to appear as if it has its own physical energy, either by literally incorporating a power source or through the perceived movement of its lines and curves or the way light alters it.”


The Aurora Table, designed with an irregular-shaped, tempered clear glass top that rests softly on two (or three) cast glass legs framed in bronze, “captures light and emits a soft, natural glow through its shadows to complement a wide variety of interior styles,” Kyle says. The legs are positioned so the base looks different from all angles.  




Left: The Walking Bench was originally created for the 2020 inaugural Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Dallas, Texas, where Rottet Studio designed the entry foyer. The bench was conceived as a kinetic form, with angled legs to give a sense of movement and visual energy. It is offered in different lengths — the longer the length, the more energy it exudes — and a variety of stone materials. Right: Constructed with a custom Italian Rubelli LED fabric inside a metal frame, originally designed as a radiant heating cover for l’Appartamento by Artemest at Milano Design Week 2024, the Luminosa Screen can also be used as a fireplace screen during summer months or made taller into a one, three or four-panel room divider. The Luminosa Screen provides privacy, concealment, and decoration by day, and with a flip of a switch by night, transforms the ambiance casting a warm glow through the textured fabric.



The Walking Bench, as perhaps a more contemplative example, is made of solid stone. “Typically, benches feel so static and lack personality; however, the angled legs and balanced composition of the Walking Bench give it life and character as if it could physically ‘walk’ on its own, hence the name,” Lauren explains. “It is offered in different lengths for different applications and settings — the longer the bench, the more legs and thus the more energy it exudes.”




Left: The Artis Chair at the St. Regis Aspen Right: The Artis Chair and Ottoman, Cubist Curve Sofa, Bent Metal Rectangle Table and Powerful Cube Table, with a hidden drawer that pops open to access storage, power outlets and charging ports. The Artis Ottoman has a leather strap which can be used to pull it into position as an ottoman or as additional seating. Photo: David Mitchell 



Their top retail seller has been the Artis Chair, a spherical, upholstered structure with a matching ottoman equipped with an elegant strap to pull it into position for use as an ottoman or as additional seating. “The Artis Chair is a study of the balance of form and function,” Kyle says. “It plays on sculptural forms with its circular seat and half-moon back. For added flexibility, it sits on a swivel base to allow its user to spin around to engage in conversation, or take in a view.” 



Designed for the St Regis Aspen resort, the leather-framed Aspen Bed’s elegantly curved headboard creates a gently enveloping nest. Available with a 3-panel extended decorative wood headboard cased in metal. Shown with the Apres Table, designed to complete the look of the Aspen Bed. With a luxe wood frame, mirrored top and available with optional integrated lighting in the lower compartment for added luxury and convenience.



The beds and sofas have also been a big hit, especially the Aspen Bed and Cubist Curve models, respectively. “The Aspen Bed, named in honor of its introduction at The St. Regis Aspen Resort, is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional leather bed and fits well within many design styles,” Kyle explains. The Cubist Curve Sofa collection, he elaborates, “is made in the traditional manner with an eight-way, hand-tied spring system with the highest quality down and foam, layered to create resiliency that keeps the sofa looking tailored.” Its form curves elegantly, offering visual movement, and the stainless steel base — offered in five additional finishes — gives the illusion that the couch is floating independently in space by reflecting the flooring.




The architecturally-inspired Bent Metal Square and Bent Metal Rectangle Tables explore the idea of a single steel tube interwoven to create intersecting planes. The timeless style works equally well with contemporary, Modernist, Art Deco or office interiors.



The Bent Metal Table is one of Lauren’s favorite pieces. It started from a simple idea of what might happen if you took a piece of pipe and “abstracted it architecturally” upon itself, she explains. It is how she likes to work, she says, finding a form organically through the process of constantly improving and elevating everyday interiors.




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