Kristen Cochran

摘要

Hospitality environments live and breathe thanks to the ingenuity of designers like Kristen Cochran. She cut her teeth at Starwood Hotels & Resorts (now Marriott), and then spent five years with New York firm Meyer Davis before joining the Ian Schrager Company in the fall of 2018, where she has helped style and open hotels like the West Hollywood EDITION. She says working alongside the visionary hotelier is "an opportunity you do not pass on. It is an honor to work with him and with his design team." The Texas native moved often with her family, fostering a curiosity that manifested in a love of design (she even lived in a hotel for a few months). Each new house meant Cochran was able to imprint her evolving style on her bedroom. "I loved starting fresh and playing with new ideas," she says. A trip to a Ritz-Carlton while on a family vacation confirmed her love of hospitality. Here, she experienced luxury for the first time. When trying to choose between sorbet flavors, the waiter brought her all three. "I still remember the bowl arriving with the scoops and saying to my parents, 'you can leave me here.'"