Interior Authors

This is the group of first instances. Its members did not enter an existing category and improve it; they produced a category that had no name until they built it, and which others then reproduced until it looked inevitable.

The test is reproduction, not scale or fame. César Ritz standardised what a grand hotel does at the moment there was no standard. Adrian Zecha replaced the resort with the small pavilion property. Dave Varty and Luke Bailes turned the safari camp into a hospitality product. Georges Nagelmackers put a hotel on rails. Each answered a question nobody had yet framed, and each answer became a template.

Because the group is defined by invention rather than by ownership, it is the most heterogeneous in the Part. It holds hoteliers and railway financiers, a chef, a tyre manufacturer's two sons, casino developers and conservationists. What they share is priority in time and consequence in practice.

What the group does not settle: priority is easier to assert than to prove, and invention is rarely solitary. Where a category has several plausible originators, the entry states the competing claim rather than resolving it by preference.

GROUP IThe entries

Code	Name	Country	Register anchors	Record
LHL-P-139	Jaya Ibrahim	Indonesia		Active
LHL-P-141	Pierre-Yves Rochon	France		Active
LHL-P-143	Tony Chi	Hong Kong		Active
LHL-P-144	George Yabu & Glenn Pushelberg (pair)	United States		Active
LHL-P-145	André Fu	Hong Kong		Active
LHL-P-146	Peter Remedios	United States		Active
LHL-P-147	Adam Tihany	United States		Active
LHL-P-148	Jacques Garcia	France		Active
LHL-P-207	Ken Fulk	United States		Active
LHL-P-237	Alexandra Champalimaud	United States		Active
LHL-P-239	Kelly Wearstler	United States		Active
LHL-P-245	Martin Brudnizki	United Kingdom		Active
LHL-P-249	David Rockwell	United States		Active
LHL-P-257	Tara Bernerd	United Kingdom		Active
LHL-P-263	Joyce Wang	Hong Kong		Active
LHL-P-283	Thierry Despont	France		Active
LHL-P-346	Alberto Pinto	France		Active
LHL-P-350	David Collins	United Kingdom		Active
LHL-P-351	Eiji Mitooka	Japan		Active
LHL-P-355	Jacques Pierrejean	France		Active
LHL-P-356	Ken Kiyoyuki Okuyama	Japan		Active
LHL-P-361	Simon Rawlings	United Kingdom		Active
LHL-P-363	Yves Pickardt	France		Active
LHL-P-367	Patrick Hellmann	Germany		Active
LHL-P-437	Didier Gomez	France		Active
LHL-P-438	Christophe Tollemer	France		Active
LHL-P-454	Khuan Chew	United Arab Emirates	LHL-H-299Burj Al Arab	Active
LHL-P-628	Oliver Messel		LHL-H-219The Dorchester	Active
LHL-P-639	Lázaro Rosa-Violán		LHL-H-198The Westin Palace Madrid	Active
LHL-P-647	Charles Zana		LHL-049Maisons Pariente	Active
LHL-P-665	Michele Bonan		LHL-057Portrait Hotels	Active
LHL-P-696	Michael S. Smith		LHL-H-800Shutters on the Beach	Active
LHL-P-713	Martyn Lawrence Bullard		LHL-030Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts	Active
LHL-P-715	Lillian Wu		LHL-009Rosewood Hotels & Resorts	Active
LHL-P-716	Paul Bishop		LHL-270SLS	Active
LHL-P-717	Ana Moussinet		LHL-265MGallery Collection	Active
LHL-P-724	Jed Johnson		LHL-H-456Twin Farms	Active

Notes on the register. Seven groups follow the model, never the era: the axis is whose capital and whose authorship. Paired entries carry one code where authorship is genuinely joint. A closed record marks a life concluded — the code and the history stand (§11). One candidacy is suspended under §18.4.1 while its subject holds public office, its brand anchor already resident in the register. Reigning heads of state receive no entries; documented authorship is recorded in the Key People line of the house concerned. Next free code: LHL-P-815 · no gaps. · Published by LVXVRY under the Editorial Manifesto, v1.7.

Interior Authors — Part IX, People