Staci Patton

Creative Director, Design & Construction

Staci Patton as Creative Director for the leading hospitality management company Davidson Hospitality Group. In this new role on the Design & Construction team, she will collaborate with owners, investors, and operators to creatively define all elements of the guest experience, bringing innovation and experimentation to establish an emotional connection between physical space and the essence of the service atmosphere. She will assess existing and new hotel opportunities and prepare a design vision for experience blending placemaking strategies, identity, art direction and design.

Patton brings 16 years of experience in the hospitality design industry, focused on independent boutique and lifestyle hotels, restaurants, adaptive reuse, and repositioning projects domestically and internationally. Notably, she founded and led a hospitality interiors studio as Principal and Hospitality Director at DLR Group and received the distinguished honor of Designer of the Year in 2021 by Boutique Design Magazine. Recently, Patton’s work extended to strategic brand design development for Hilton and Sonesta Hotels with new hotels in the pipeline. Patton has designed hotels for some of the leading hoteliers in the industry and her work has been featured in editorials such as Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Metropolis, Dwell, Hospitality Design, and Interior Design magazine.