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Designed by the world-renowned Rockwell Group, The REMI., Scottsdale, Autograph Collection is situated in “the West’s most Western town.” While its locale’s playful moniker lent itself to the direction of the design, the hotel refuses to lean into cowboy clichés. Instead, it finds kinship between desert landscapes and Eastern aesthetics. Arizona grit meets Japanese restraint.
It’s a collision of cultures that runs through every detail, from high-performance architecture and luxe finishes to its custom art program, curated by Saatchi Art’s Hospitality Art Advisors and drawing from across the globe. Minimalist ink paintings hang alongside vibrant mosaics, all grounded in the red earth and mountain silhouettes of the Sonoran Desert.
In the elevator vestibule, Korean artist Lee Gil-Rae‘s wire tree sculpture completes an impossible forest. Framed by columns of dark wood, the sculpture climbs upward. Its form is painstakingly detailed to mimic real bark, even though it is crafted entirely from steel and copper. It’s beautiful and haunting, prompting quiet reflection on what we’re losing in the natural world.
Just steps away in the elevator lobby, collage artist Ben Giles reached into Scottsdale’s past with a mural inspired by “Orangedale”—the town’s original name—grounding the hotel’s global vision in local history.
The private dining room embodies the hotel’s East-meets-West philosophy through warm wood-paneled walls and low-profile furniture that nod to Japanese design principles. Against this understated backdrop, French artist Frederic Fau’s landscape showcases the ancient tradition of Japanese sumi-e ink painting—where artists work with black ink and brush to capture their subject through minimal, deliberate strokes. His large-scale series translates this meditative practice to the Arizona desert, using stark black ink and careful white space to render Camelback Mountain and cactus forms. The site-specific mural becomes the focal point for a refined dining experience.
The rooftop terrace required art that could hold its own against vast desert skies and poolside vitality. Muralist Franco E. answered with a series of artworks created specially for The REMI that celebrate the human form in motion. Drawing on Cubism and the Japanese concept of Ma (negative space), his sensual compositions were translated into custom mosaics by Italian studio Sicis. Each cabana becomes an immersive environment—bold, tactile, and energizing.
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