Restaurant · Hospitality · Experience Design

A hospitality design firm
for places people remember.

Design Development Company is a hospitality design firm in Agoura Hills. Artistry, operational knowledge and practical design thinking come together to create hospitality environments that feel extraordinary, yet completely natural to inhabit.

Since 1983, the firm has planned restaurants, hotels, kitchens and entertainment projects for operators in Southern California and across the United States. The studio is based in Agoura Hills and works nationally when the concept, kitchen and guest experience need to hold together after opening night. If you want to see how that work looks in a dining room, start with restaurant design, the project history, or the team. Bring the team in early, before drawings lock in decisions that are expensive to undo.
AGOURA HILLS · CALIFORNIA
01 / EXPERIENCE

People rarely go out just because they are hungry.

The room becomes part of the meal.

Lighting, movement, sound, proportion and atmosphere shape how a guest remembers the experience. Our work brings those elements together so the space feels as considered as the menu.

The best hospitality design does more than photograph well. It gives people a reason to settle in, stay longer and want to return.

FAMILIAR / UNEXPECTED

A sense of wonder
without losing comfort.

Experience Built Over Decades

A hospitality design firm informed by what happens after opening night.

1983
Design Development Company founded
80
Restaurants owned and operated
6
Hotels developed
27
States of firsthand operating experience

The Design Development Method

Beauty has to
perform.

Every memorable environment is also a working environment. A hospitality design firm has to plan for the guest, the operator and the realities behind the walls.

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Imagine

We begin with the feeling. The identity, audience and reason the experience should exist.

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Compose

Space, proportion, material, lighting and movement are orchestrated into one coherent point of view.

03

Engineer

Operational flow, kitchen requirements, service paths and technical coordination turn vision into a place that works.

04

Deliver

We follow the details through documentation, coordination and implementation so the idea survives contact with reality.

Selected Atmospheres

Spaces with a
point of view.

Fine dining, hotel hospitality, destination concepts and spaces designed to make the first impression last. That mix is the day-to-day work of this hospitality design firm.

01
Dining as Theatre
Atmosphere · Lighting · Guest Experience
02
Quiet Opulence
Hospitality · Material · Detail
03
Modern Ritual
Restaurant · Identity · Interior

Everything the Experience Needs

From first thought
to final detail.

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Turning an idea into a clear, ownable environment.

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A complete visual and spatial language from arrival onward.

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Back-of-house planning shaped around real operational demands.

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Light as architecture, emotion and memory.

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A brand experience with a physical presence.

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Coordination that protects the idea all the way through execution.

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A History Across Hospitality

KIMPTON
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MARRIOTT
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WOLFGANG PUCK
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PERKINS
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AMGEN
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HOSPITALITY
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KIMPTON
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MARRIOTT
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WOLFGANG PUCK
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PERKINS
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AMGEN
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HOSPITALITY
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Experience with the scale to think broadly and the attention to treat every project personally.

Start With a Real Conversation

What do you want
people to feel?

Bring the location, the operating idea, the ambition and the problem you are trying to solve. We will help turn it into an environment worth remembering. Operators can also review industry coverage from Hospitality Design, then start a conversation with this hospitality design firm on the contact page.