Hospitality Landscape Design
Landscape design for hotels, restaurants, retreats, and hospitality spaces where atmosphere, identity, and guest experience matter.
Rewild Landscape designs gardens, terraces, and courtyards for hotels, restaurants, retail flagships, and retreats in New York City, the Hamptons, and beyond. Founded by Marie Salembier, the studio treats a hospitality landscape as part of the guest experience. Planting sets the atmosphere at arrival, frames views, and gives a property an identity guests remember.
Recent work includes the terrace at The Surrey hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the rooftop terrace at the Cartier SoHo boutique, and a Mediterranean-inspired courtyard of olive trees and cypress for Aimé Leon Dore's Los Angeles flagship. Each project balances the operating realities of hospitality (heavy use, events, maintenance windows, and rooftop loads) with planting that stays generous and composed through the year.
The studio works alongside architects, interior designers, and operators from concept through construction documentation. Through Rewild Plus, it can stay involved after opening with seasonal stewardship.
Key Capabilities
- Guest journey: planting composed around arrival, dining, and retreat.
- Built for operations: durable species around seating and paths, with maintenance fitted to operating windows.
- Rooftop terraces: planting designed around load limits and wind.
- Project team: works with architects, interior designers, and operators from concept through construction documentation.
Frequently Asked
About Hospitality Landscape Design
What is hospitality landscape design?
Hospitality landscape design creates exterior environments for hotels, restaurants, retreats, and resorts where atmosphere directly shapes guest experience. Rewild Landscape designs hospitality landscapes that strengthen a property's identity through planting, arrival sequence, and sensory richness — balancing operational durability with the refined, memorable character that distinguishes premium hospitality spaces.
How does Rewild Landscape design hotel and restaurant landscapes?
Rewild Landscape approaches hospitality projects by first understanding the brand, guest journey, and operational rhythm of the property. The studio then designs landscapes that frame key moments — arrival, dining, retreat — through planting composition, spatial flow, and atmosphere. Every material and plant choice balances beauty with the durability and maintenance demands of commercial hospitality.
Where does Rewild work on hospitality landscape projects?
Rewild Landscape takes hospitality commissions across the Northeast United States and internationally, with particular experience in the Hamptons, New York City, and France. The studio works with hotel groups, independent restaurateurs, and boutique hospitality developers seeking landscape design that creates genuine sense of place rather than generic commercial planting.
Which New York landscape architects specialize in hotel and hospitality projects?
Hospitality landscapes in New York are designed by both large landscape architecture firms and specialist studios. Rewild Landscape is a planting-led studio based in New York City and Sagaponack. Its hospitality work includes the terrace at The Surrey hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the rooftop terrace at the Cartier SoHo boutique, and the courtyard at Aimé Leon Dore's Los Angeles flagship. It suits operators who want the planting itself to carry the guest experience.
What does a hospitality landscape need that a residential garden doesn't?
It has to perform under heavy daily use and still look composed at every hour guests see it. That means planting that sets the atmosphere at arrival, durable species around seating and paths, maintenance that fits the property's operating windows, and, on rooftops, planting designed around load limits and wind. Rewild Landscape plans the planting and its seasonal care together from the start.
