CEO / Design Director - MIXD
Managing Director and Creative Director of the Wroclaw-based studio MIXD, founded in 2018 together with Katarzyna Majer-Hola. Interior architect known for designing hotels, offices, co-living and commercial spaces. For many years he has been designing interiors for hotel brands such as Novotel, Mercure, Hilton, MGallery, Hyatt Place, Tribe, Mövenpick, Fairmont, Royal Tulip, Qubus Hotel and ibis Styles, as well as for boutique hotels and restaurants. In line with MIXD's philosophy of 'new hospitality', the offices of companies such as Echo Investment, PepsiCo, Accenture, Accor, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, ING and ING Hubs are also spaces where people feel very comfortable and the quality of the working environment and the comfort of the spaces are high.
Together with his design team, he has received more than 20 prizes and awards in Polish and international architecture, design and real estate competitions, including two titles in the International Property Award 2023/2024, the LIV Hospitality Design Award 2021 and 2023, and was also a finalist in the Hospitality Design Award 2020 and 2024, Dezeen Awards 2022 and the Mies Van der Rohe Architectural Award 2022. His latest achievements include being shortlisted for the Commercial Interior Design 2023 MENA competition in the Interior Design of The Year: Office category with the Fairmont Global HQ project in Dubai, the Hospitality Design 2024 final in the Event Space category for LookUp, winning the Restaurant and Bar Design Award 2024 in the Surface Interior Europe category for the same project, and the final of the special SALON Polityki 2024 magazine award for the best public interior design for Galeria 1 Piętro ING. In 2025, MIXD was included in the AD100 list of the Polish edition of Architectural Digest.
Piotr Kalinowski is a speaker at numerous industry conferences and events, including the Hospitality Leadership & Design Conference (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), the New Hospitality Baltic Forum (Riga, Latvia), Warsaw Home (Warsaw, Poland), 4 Design Days (Katowice, Poland), Property Forum (Katowice, Poland) and Hotel Trends Poland & CEE (Poznań, Poland).
An active Instagram user, she shares her travels, interesting hotels and restaurants, design inspirations and daily work at MIXD.