Inside Three Properties That Chose VIGO

Chapter One

Hard Rock London: why did a rock-and-roll hotel go gold in the bathroom?

The Hard Rock Hotel London chose VIGO’s Elan frameless sliding doors in matte brushed gold because the finish matched a brand “built on warmth, brass, and a little swagger,” while the frameless format kept guest bathrooms bright and gallery-like and cut the soap-scum cleanup that hardware-heavy framed doors demand in daily hotel housekeeping.

The design problem at 100 Kellogg Lane was tension: a hotel brand defined by stage-light drama, installed inside a guest bathroom that still has to be scrubbed, squeegeed, and turned over every single day. Chrome would have read cold. A framed door would have added metal edges — every one of them a place for water spots to collect and a maintenance ticket waiting to happen.

The spec that answered it: Elan frameless sliding doors (VG6041 series) in matte brushed gold, built on 3/8-inch (10 mm) tempered safety glass that meets ANSI Z97.1 and 16 CFR 1201, with 304 stainless steel hardware finished in 7-layer brushed-gold plating. The brushed texture is doing quiet operational work here — it resists fingerprints and water spots, which matters when hundreds of hands touch the same door bar every week.

Two custom touches separate the hotel install from an off-the-shelf order. VIGO produced non-standard door heights to fit the building’s specific openings, and the glass panels carry an etched arched-glass design — a decorative signature you won’t find on the retail version. The rolling hardware, however, is the same RollerDisk™ top-mounted glide sold to homeowners, chosen partly because it adjusts to out-of-plumb walls; hotel renovations rarely offer perfectly square openings, and neither do most houses built before last decade.

As installed at Hard Rock Hotel London

Elan Frameless Sliding Shower Door

From $889.90

Same platform the hotel specified: 3/8-inch tempered glass, 304 stainless steel hardware, RollerDisk™ top-mounted glide, matte brushed gold among the available finishes. 50 size and finish configurations at retail. Limited lifetime warranty; free shipping sitewide.

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Chapter Two

NoMad Wynwood: how do you make privacy glass feel like jewelry?

NoMad Wynwood specified VIGO’s Essex framed screens in matte brushed gold with reeded and fluted 3/8-inch tempered glass because the vertical texture provides privacy while keeping the shower bright, hides water spots between cleanings, and coordinates with the project’s brass fixtures, mirrors, and lighting — Art Deco drama tuned for Miami’s arts district.

Wynwood is Miami’s loudest neighborhood, and the team behind this project — developer Related Group and architect Arquitectonica — leaned into it rather than away. The bathroom brief was hospitality-inspired luxury residential: glamour you can photograph, in a unit that still has to work like a home. Clear glass would have been invisible. Frosted glass would have been dull. The answer sat in between.

Reeded glass — vertical ribs rolled into the panel — bends light into a shimmer, blurs the silhouette behind it, and has a practical side effect the source spec calls out directly: the texture hides water spots. In a rental or condo bathroom that isn’t squeegeed after every shower, that’s the difference between glass that looks dirty on day three and glass that looks styled on day thirty.

The order sheet was precise. Four Essex configurations in the VG6093MGFL series, all matte brushed gold, all 74 inches tall: a 35-inch hinged door, and fixed screens at 28, 34, and 41 inches wide, in reeded and fluted 3/8-inch tempered glass. Fixed screens are the quiet hero of hospitality bathrooms — no rollers, no hinges to service, nothing to adjust. One panel, one frame, one cleaning pass.

As installed at NoMad Wynwood

Meridian Essex Framed Fixed Shower Screen

$699.90

The 34 x 74 in. fixed-screen configuration from the Wynwood spec, with 3/8-inch fluted tempered glass and a slim framed profile. No moving parts to service — the same logic that made it a hospitality pick. Limited lifetime warranty; free shipping sitewide.

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Chapter Three

Turning Stone & Point Place: what does one door in two finishes buy a casino operator?

The Oneida Nation’s two casino hotels standardized on VIGO’s Caspian frameless sliding door (VG6046 series) and used finish alone to split their identities: custom matte brushed gold for a jewel-box feel at Turning Stone’s Crescent Hotel in Verona, NY, and custom matte black for a crisp, graphic look across Point Place Casino’s 100 guest rooms and 8 suites in Bridgeport, NY.

Casinos run bathrooms harder than almost any building type — high occupancy, fast turnover, housekeeping on a clock. So when architect Gensler and general contractor Hayner Hoyt planned showers for two sister properties, they made a supply-chain decision before a style decision: one door platform, everywhere.

The platform was the Caspian frameless slider — 3/8-inch (10 mm) clear tempered glass meeting ANSI Z97.1 and 16 CFR 1201, 304 stainless steel hardware — and the two properties diverged only at the finish line. At the Crescent Hotel, warm gold. At Point Place, matte black, plus one genuinely commercial modification: a custom 3-inch bottom door guide engineered for the hotel addition’s guest bathrooms.

Read that quote like an operator. Every additional door model in a hotel portfolio is a second instruction sheet for installers, a second bin of spare rollers and gaskets, a second thing that can be back-ordered when room 314 needs a fix before check-in. Standardizing the door and varying the finish gave two casinos two distinct identities for the price of one supply chain.

As installed at Turning Stone & Point Place

Caspian Frameless Sliding Door (VG6046 series)

Commercial program spec

Honest note: the Caspian, with its custom finishes and 3-inch bottom guide, was specified through VIGO’s commercial program and has no standard retail listing. The closest thing you can put in a cart is the Elan slider above — or browse the full retail line of frameless doors.

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From the same spec book: the drains

Shower doors get the photography, but VIGO’s hospitality footprint runs below the tile line too. The Omni Dallas Hotel & Resort specified the Elan square drain in matte black — a compact point drain whose brass body and 304 stainless cover stand up to the cleaning cycles of a major convention hotel — while Canopy by Hilton Tempe Downtown ran the Elan 24-inch linear drain in chrome against large-format tile in contemporary walk-in showers. Both connect to a standard 2-inch outlet.

As installed at Canopy by Hilton Tempe

Elan 24 in. Linear Shower Drain

From $84.90

24 in. long, 2.75 in. wide, 2.5 in. tall — brass body, 304 stainless grate, standard 2 in. outlet. Four finishes at retail.

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As installed at Omni Dallas Hotel & Resort

Elan Square Shower Drain

From $44.90

Roughly 4 in. square point drain — brass body, 304 stainless cover, standard 2 in. outlet. Four finishes at retail.

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