Raffles Boston

  • Prize
    Winner in Interior Design Hotel – Luxury
  • Company/Firm
    Stonehill Taylor
  • Lead Designer
    Sara Duffy
  • Other Designer(s)
    Bethany Gale, Katie Cole, Rena Ok
  • Architect
    The Architectural Team, Inc.
  • Interior Designer
    Stonehill Taylor
  • Hospitality
    Raffles Hotels
  • Construction Company
    Suffolk Construction Company
  • Photo Credit
    Brandon Barre Photography, Credit: Stonehill Taylor (cover image, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9); Vincent Leroux Photography, Credit: Raffles Boston (1, 6, 10)
  • Location
    Boston, MA
  • Project Date
    09/15/2023
  • Developer
    The Noannet Group and Saunders Hotel Group

Raffles Boston introduces the brand to North America and brings the finest hotel rooms to the Boston hospitality landscape. The hotel’s interior is comprised of a three-story Sky Lobby, terrace, and public spaces including a patisserie, special-occasion restaurant, and two-story speakeasy designed by Stonehill Taylor. The hotel's design draws inspiration from Boston's botanical gardens, Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, and the historic Revere Copper Company while also embracing the overarching eclecticism found throughout the Raffles brand. Luxury extends to the guest rooms featuring crystal bedside lamps, glass mirror-backed vitrine minibars, hardwood floors with copper accents, and custom floral bathroom murals. The garden suites are a vibrant conservatory; guests enter through a deep green vestibule and are greeted with a botanically inspired space. The remaining suites are centered around curated art and furnishing collections composed of works from local artists. The presidential suite represents the height of luxury and functionality, complete with an expansive wood paneled living room, a dining and kitchen area, platinum-leafed gold headboard, and full marble bathroom.

Bio
Stonehill Taylor, founded in 1986, is a leader in hospitality design with a long list of both domestic and international hotel clients. Our projects include new buildings, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and renovations at all scales.

Unique in the hospitality design industry, our firm combines architecture and interiors studios that each inform the other’s design process and enjoy broad industry recognition for design excellence and technical sophistication. Our interiors group provides branded custom-designed environments and furnishings that support a uniquely tailored narrative.

Other prizes
Selected awards: AIA NEW YORK DESIGN AWARDS HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARDS NYCxDESIGN PLAN AWARDS AHEAD AMERICAS AWARDS FRAME AWARDS GOLD KEY AWARDS INTERIOR DESIGN'S BEST OF YEAR AWARDS BLT BUILT DESIGN AWARDS INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE ARCHITIZER A+ FIRM AWARDS LOOP DESIGN AWARDS SURFACE TRAVEL AWARDS NEWH NY TOP ID FIRMS IIDA INTERIOR DESIGN COMPETITION TRAVEL + LEISURE "IT LIST" CONDE NAST TRAVEL READERS' CHOICE AWARD TRIPADVISOR TRAVELER'S CHOICE INTERIOR & SOURCES BEST OF YEAR AWARDS WALLPAPER DESIGN ASWARDS FODOR'S 100 HOTEL AWARDS DESIGN TIMES SQUARE AWARDS SBID AWARDS ULI NEW YORK EXCELLENCE IN DEVELOPMENT AWARDS RESTAURANT & BAR DESIGN AWARDS JAMES BEARD DESIGN AWARDS HD AWARDS