Case Study · Hospitality
A Newark landmark since 1916, the Robert Treat is the city's first grand hotel, known for ballrooms that have hosted presidents. We worked the hospitality side, furniture and lighting built for rooms that have to look the part.
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Location
Newark, New Jersey
Property
Historic landmark hotel, opened 1916
Setting
Park Place, across from NJPAC
Our focus
Event space and guest room furnishings
Scope
Tables and seating for ballrooms and banquet rooms that turn over constantly.
Fixtures that carry a historic room's drama and still meet a working venue's needs.
Classic, durable pieces kept consistent across the hotel's keys.
Manufactured to one standard and installed around a live events calendar.
The brief
The Robert Treat opened in 1916 on Park Place, across from Military Park and what is now the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. It was Newark's first grand hotel and the first in the city listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, with ballrooms that have hosted presidents and a century of the city's biggest events.
A property like this lives on its event spaces and guest rooms, and both have to read elegant while taking constant use. We handled hospitality furniture and lighting, produced to spec and installed to a working hotel's schedule, the kind of dressed up, durable work a landmark venue runs on.
A ballroom is judged the second the doors open. The lighting is doing that job before anyone says a word.
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