Jean-Michel Gathy, hotel designer extraordinaire, shares his stratospheric ideas
12 December 2020 • 7:00am
Aman New York
will feature a three-storey,
22,000sq ft spa, complete
with a 25m swimming
pool bordered by alcoves
of double daybeds and
fire pits
Before 2020, Jean-Michel Gathy, the go-to designer for many of the world's most luxurious hotels, was almost permanently on a plane. He travelled 220 days a year. Whether he was off to discuss the next Aman or One&Only, a Mandarin Oriental, Rosewood or a Four Seasons, Gathy would hurtle through a dozen meetings in a few days before moving on to the next continent. "I'm someone who loves life," he says. "I design the wow places."