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ADA FLOOR Design Team · Updated 2026-09-21
Renovating floors in a live hotel is not doing it again — it is separating scope, samples, batches and acceptance so the building keeps selling rooms. The 11,455 m² Shangri-La Futian record is a typical volume for this work.
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When a brand opens twice in one region the floor scheme is highly reusable. What decides whether the two read as one hotel is whether pattern numbers and dye lots were actually managed.
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In curved, non-rectangular rooms with many terminations, the roll width makes the design decisions first. Hand tufting is not nostalgia — it puts a one-to-one drawing straight onto the backing.
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Hand-woven, sisal and jute carpets form the natural-material family — matte texture, firm underfoot, naturally humidity-buffering — suited to residences and resort projects that favour an organic feel, with a usage logic different from wool.
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A hand-tufted carpet is made by inserting yarn into a backing with a tufting gun, allowing flexible control of pattern, colour, fibre and pile height.
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Axminster carpet is woven on an Axminster loom, with yarn inserted into the warp-and-weft structure following the pattern program. Dense, flat and abrasion-resistant, it is the mainstream craft for large hotel lobbies, corridors and ballrooms.
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A bespoke carpet runs through design development, material specification, sampling, factory production, inspection and delivery-and-installation coordination. How deep each stage goes decides the distance between drawing and finished floor.
Read articleIn curved, non-rectangular rooms with many terminations, the roll width makes the design decisions first. Hand tufting is not nostalgia — it puts a one-to-one drawing straight onto the backing.
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Handcraft splits into knotted and tufted families; loom weaving builds a stable structure by machine. They are not a hierarchy — they divide the work between visual expression and delivery certainty.
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Wool wins on resilience, burn behaviour and moisture buffering; nylon wins on colourfastness, abrasion and soil release. Fibre choice is a per-zone calculation, not a prestige question.
Read articleHand-woven, sisal and jute carpets form the natural-material family — matte texture, firm underfoot, naturally humidity-buffering — suited to residences and resort projects that favour an organic feel, with a usage logic different from wool.
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Hotels should specify carpet by zone, matching fibre, construction, density and fire performance to the traffic and maintenance needs of each area.
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Area, pattern complexity, fibre, density, pile height, shaped edges, sampling, delivery and installation conditions all affect custom carpet pricing.
Read articleRenovating floors in a live hotel is not doing it again — it is separating scope, samples, batches and acceptance so the building keeps selling rooms. The 11,455 m² Shangri-La Futian record is a typical volume for this work.
Read articleWhen a brand opens twice in one region the floor scheme is highly reusable. What decides whether the two read as one hotel is whether pattern numbers and dye lots were actually managed.
Read article