Because the Westin hotel in Indianapolis, IN, accommodates a significant number of business professionals, its lobby needed to paint a classy and elegant picture. As a result, the designers opted for a neutral and timeless color palette to form a large "stone carpet" for the main floor area. And to ensure that the marble and granite pieces were cut precisely, the floor design was fabricated with waterjet machinery.
"We wanted something really striking," said designer Pam Anderson of Anderson/Miller Ltd. in Birmingham, MI. "We wanted to do a design that was a geometrical pattern, which fits with a contemporary hotel."