06/10/2026
Hospitality Project Notes: No. 01.
Angeloni's Club Madrid, Atlantic City, NJ
Designed in partnership with ROHE Creative
Scope: Restaurant lounge — fully draped immersive environment, with tented Moroccan-inspired ceiling canopy engineered from measured triangular fabric sections, custom wall drapery panels covering the full perimeter, bespoke wooden mounting ring at the chandelier apex, custom perimeter frame with precision-placed anchors and brackets. Every register, smoke detector, security camera, and code-required access point remained fully functional and visually integrated.
This room started as a plain, unfinished back space with exposed walls, visible utilities, a blank ceiling, and no architectural character to work with. Rohe Creative's brief was to turn it into a fully immersive Moroccan-inspired escape lounge. The kind of room where a guest walks in and forgets they are in the back of a restaurant in Atlantic City.
The ceiling was the engineering challenge. To achieve the tented canopy, we physically mapped the drape lines directly in the space and drafted the ceiling as measured triangular sections, each one fabricated to gather dramatically toward a custom-crafted wooden mounting ring framing the chandelier. The concrete walls required a custom perimeter frame built from scratch, with every anchor precisely placed to support the full installation. Panels were custom-sized to navigate every obstruction while maintaining unbroken seam alignment and pattern continuity across the entire room. From the outside it reads as one continuous draped environment. From the inside it is hundreds of individual decisions that had to be exactly right.
2nd Place — Grace Awards 2026.
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