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Case Study · Hospitality

The Mayo Hotel.

A 1925 Art Deco landmark brought back to life. The Mayo was once the tallest building in Oklahoma, and its restoration called for furnishings and lighting that honor the Jazz Age without feeling like a museum.

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Location

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Property

1925 Art Deco landmark, restored

Scale

About 100 luxury guest rooms

Our focus

Furnishings and lighting for restored spaces

Scope

What we delivered.

Guest room furnishings

Pieces that read true to the era and live like a modern luxury hotel.

Period-correct lighting

Fixtures in keeping with the building's Art Deco character.

Event & common areas

Furniture for the lobby, ballroom, and shared spaces.

Sourced & produced to spec

Manufactured to a historic restoration's standard and timeline.

The brief

Restoration is the hardest brief. New, but it has to look like 1925.

The Mayo opened in 1925 as the tallest building in Oklahoma, an Art Deco showpiece with a Crystal Ballroom that drew presidents and movie stars before it closed in 1981 and sat empty for twenty years. A major restoration brought it back, reopening with around a hundred luxury guest rooms inside the original landmark.

Work like this is a tightrope. Lighting and furnishings have to feel true to the Jazz Age, photograph like a luxury hotel today, and meet a historic restoration's standards. That is exactly the manufacturing and sourcing problem we are built to solve, period correct looks produced to spec and delivered to a restoration timeline.

The Mayo Hotel, 115 West 5th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Restoring a landmark is not decorating. It is remembering, in furniture and light.

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