Hungarian Varrodesign among world’s best hospitality designers – PHOTO GALLERY

Platán Tata Mirror Spa, designed by Budapest-based designer Zoltán Varró, was selected as a finalist of the Gold Key Award in the category of “Best Specialty Design”. Varrodesign is the only Hungarian designer team that has been nominated for the prestigious award, for the fourth time this year.

The Gold Key Awards is often called “the Oscars of hospitality design”. Awarded each year in November in New York, it rewards the most innovative and most impressive design in hotel and restaurant projects all over the world. This year, the Gold Key Awards will be organised for the 41st time. Winners will be honoured in 24 categories at the 2021 Gold Key Awards Gala on 15 November.

Varrodesign has already won the most prestigious prize of the profession with several works and proved that Hungarian interior design is at the forefront of the world.

Previous successes

In 2015, Aria Hotel Budapest was selected as a finalist of the Gold Key Awards in the categories of “Best Hotel Luxury Design”, “Best Guestroom Luxury Design”, and “Best Lobby Luxury Design”. Next year, the team reached the finals again with two projects. The Science Hotel Szeged and the Onyx Restaurant in Budapest, the former also won the “Best Lobby Budget Focused Design” category. In 2019, Mystery Hotel Budapest was not only among the finalists of the Gold Key Awards in the “Best Lobby Luxury Design” and “Best Guestroom Luxury Design” categories, but it was also the only European contestant in the former category.