Award-winning Newcastle interior design consultancy achieves worldwide success

The year is ending “on a high note” for the Jesmond based award-winning interior design consultancy, Dakota House of Design, with commissions at least 30 per cent up on pre-Covid levels and new instructions coming not only from the UK, but from Europe and beyond.

With “extensive” knowledge of leisure, hospitality and residential interiors, Dakota is “renowned for its talented and highly experienced team” which works at locations throughout the UK and Europe and can count many blue-chip operators as clients.

The company began the year with a bar refurbishment project in Basel, Switzerland on Steinenvorstadt, one of Basel’s busiest pedestrianised streets and the same street as Soho, an earlier, successful design project that Dakota undertook.

By April, Dakota had been briefed on the design of a restaurant and visitor centre at the base of the Kuwait Water Towers, a world heritage site, and in October, Genting Casinos approached the company to work on a refurbishment project for its casino in Cairo.

This was a repeat piece of business for Dakota who produced the design for the casino initially in 2019 when it was an acquisition site within a Hilton Hotel on the Nile.

Now owned by Genting Casinos and operating under the Crockfords brand, it has a “very high-end aesthetic” and this level of quality and styling must inform the refurbishment of the Cairo venue too where the main gaming floor, round lounge bar area and WCs will be refurbished, starting on site in March and ending in April.

Coming up to the present, January will see director Peter Hodgson flying over to Thessaloniki to redesign the Vergina Theatre Regency Casino, which is a Vegas style live theatre and the largest in Greece.

Peter commented: “We’re delighted with the way that business is shaping up. It certainly shows no signs of slowing down. The casinos and hotels we have been working on over the recent past have been talked about very positively throughout the industry and much of the work has come through word of mouth.

“The Thessaloniki project was a great boost to the end of the year. The height of the building poses certain challenges, and we are looking at ways we can introduce some special lighting effects at ceiling level to maximise the potential of this current space.

“The team have worked so hard throughout 2022 we are pushing the boat out by celebrating with a Christmas party in Alicante this year, which will include a food tour. It will be a great end to a very successful year. Everyone is looking forward to it!”

By Matthew Neville – Correspondent, Bdaily

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