Worldwide: Ian Schrager Firm has entered right into a three way partnership with Highgate to broaden the luxurious lodge model PUBLIC globally.
Highgate will function and handle PUBLIC lodges in collaboration with Schrager, including to the corporate’s 80,000 keys throughout North America, Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.
Ian Schrager Firm will retain full artistic authority, imaginative and prescient, and model stewardship of PUBLIC.
“I may have chosen anybody within the trade to accomplice with, however I selected Highgate,” mentioned Schrager. “They’re the neatest, most gifted, and most disciplined operators and traders within the enterprise. This partnership permits me to focus totally on what I do finest – idea, product, positioning and expertise, whereas permitting Highgate to do what they do finest. To me, it’s a dream group, the place 1+1 = 10.”
“I reject the notion of yesterday’s innovator turning into right this moment’s institution,” Schrager added. “I’m solely curious about creating one thing authentic, distinctive and particular that defies categorisation – one thing that folks haven’t seen earlier than. In reality, I attempt to give individuals one thing that they didn’t even know they wished or imagine existed. My tasks have all the time appealed to an individual’s sensibility, feelings and what and the way they really feel. If I used to be not engaging in this, I’d not be within the enterprise.”
Mahmood Khimji, founding principal of Highgate, mentioned: “Ian is the best hotelier of the fashionable period. He actually invented the approach to life class. We’re extraordinarily excited to be working with him to function PUBLIC Motels.”
Highlights:
- Ian Schrager Firm has fashioned a three way partnership with Highgate to roll out the PUBLIC lodge model globally
- Highgate will handle and function PUBLIC lodges in collaboration with Ian Schrager Firm, including the model to its portfolio of greater than 80,000 keys throughout a number of areas
- Ian Schrager Firm will keep full artistic authority, model imaginative and prescient and stewardship of PUBLIC because the model scales internationally
