The Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Hotels are fanciful immersive themed environments consistent with Disney’s interest in “entertainment architecture.” In addition to designing the buildings and the hotel interiors – from the public spaces to the guestrooms — MGA&D designed 16 unique restaurants. Of those, the two-story Garden Grove at the Swan Hotel is a distinctive semi-attached rotunda from the outside and a trellised garden room on the interior. Palio is an Italian-themed restaurant that uses the colorful banners from Siena’s famous annual horse race of that name, along with Michael Graves paintings of imaginary Tuscan landscapes. Kimonos, a popular Karaoke bar with Japanese cuisine, is decorated with kimonos that Michael Graves purchased on one of his many trips to Japan.
