The Barlas Baylar Hotel

Visual Hospitality Everywhere

Famous furniture designer Barlas Baylar and his company Hudson Furniture are familiar names to many of the world’s most exclusive hotels and resorts.  From Tokyo to Istanbul, from New York to Moscow, Baylar’s touch can be discerned in the evocative atmospheres created, the rich and elaborate floor plans spread out, and of course the specially commissioned furniture installed.

His is a much sought-after aesthetic that’s born of personal experience in production design and a family background in machinery manufacturing.  Thus to appropriately adorn the great lobbies of the world’s grandest hotels dovetails perfectly with the incredibly broad skill set he has judiciously built up over years of following his passions.  A so-called “design nomad,” Baylar travels the world in search of distinctive material for his works, fed up with the sameness of appearance on account of everything being mass-produced.  Such an iconoclastic free spirit may well have had difficulties with the more corporate-like sensibilities of institutional clients, but Baylar maintains an excellent relationship with one and all that results in work which represents others by presenting himself.

Bold and unconventional are his designs, and it is this unique vision of what is possible with an interior that has made him acclaimed the world over.  And thus the number of luxury hotels and resorts which seek his expertise in all matters of style, particularly as are related to furnishing that is hospitable and yet striking, tasteful yet visually challenging, capturing the attention and seducing the senses.  After all, who else would dare install petrified wood end tables that are 250 million years old?

As a committed conservationist, the kind who goes so far as to ensure the environmental sustainability of his materials first-hand, even to the point of seeking the official permission of foreign governments in cases of necessary imports, Baylar is entirely in his element when being different and challenging conventions.  The use of reclaimed wood has traditionally been associated with camping grounds and the like, but Baylar has become famous for managing to integrate such elements into modern interiors for minimalism and sleekness that is warm and inviting, suggesting the untamed universe without from within the most hospitable domiciles.

And so the weary traveler can find succor not only for fatigued legs but also sore eyes when a guest of such illustrious lodgings as those featuring Baylar’s work at the Ritz Carlton of Charlotte, the Four Seasons in the Seychelles, the Hotel Arc Riche Toyohashi in Tokyo, the Dubai Mall Hotel in Dubai, the Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul, and the Moscow Hotel in Moscow – just to mention but a few.