PORTLAND, OR—Provenance Hotels has hired Ashley Stempler as director of interior design for its portfolio of hotels.
Stempler brings international expertise to the newly created role in which she will be responsible for directing design projects for the company’s eight existing hotels in Seattle; Tacoma, WA; Portland, OR; Nashville, TN, and New Orleans, and overseeing direction and execution for all new projects in the works. These include Hotel Theodore, which is slated to open in downtown Seattle later this year; the adaptive-reuse of the historic Woodlark and Cornelius buildings in Portland; and a new-build development in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Stempler comes to Portland-based Provenance Hotels from Commune Hotels and Resorts in New York where she was design director overseeing the design and development of new-build projects and renovations that included Joie de Vivre properties in New Orleans, New York, Miami, Baltimore and San Francisco as well as tommie in New York and Thompson properties in Nashville, TN and Miami.
In her new role at Provenance Hotels, Stempler will collaborate with design firms to implement and enhance the brand story the company develops for each new property. This includes directing the deeply integrated art collections at each new hotel. In addition, she will also work closely with the Provenance Hotels development team to acquire new properties and management contracts based on the strength of the company’s approach to design and branding.
Prior to joining Commune, Stempler was based in Hong Kong at Gettys where she worked on luxury hotel properties such as The Penninsula in Hong Kong, Tazi Palace in Tangier, Morroco and the Ritz Carlton in Doha, Qatar.