Jean-Michel Gathy is a hotelier who is widely regarded as having the most "far-reaching influence on what constitutes a 21st-century hotel of the first rank." His first hotel was built in 1993: Aman Resorts’ Amanwana on the Indonesian island of Moyo. Since then, he has created hotels across the world, from the Viceroy in Snowmass, Colorado, to the Hotel Bora Bora in French Polynesia, operated by most of the leading  top-tier hospitality brands such as Banyan Tree, GHM, Jumeirah, Park Hyatt and Shangri-La. His practice, Denniston International Architects, has designed nine hotels in the last four years alone, among them the Amans in Venice and Vietnam, Louis Vuitton’s Cheval Blanc Randheli in the Maldives, Como Resorts’ Point Yamu in Phuket (with interiors by Paola Navone), The Chedi in Andermatt, and Nizuc on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.