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DoubleTree by Hilton Zhengzhou East FF&E

Project Overview

The DoubleTree by Hilton Zhengzhou East opens on 31 July 2025 as one of the most strategically positioned high-end business hotels in central China — occupying a prime address on Shunyi Street, Golden Water District, directly adjacent to the east plaza of Zhengzhou East High-Speed Rail Station, the nation’s largest high-speed rail hub. Zhobai Hotel Furniture was engaged as the exclusive FF&E partner for this 280-room property, supplying and installing the complete furniture programme across all guest-facing spaces: lobby, guestrooms, dining venues, meeting and banquet facilities, and the third-floor recreation level. The project represents one of our most elaborate engagements with a Hilton-brand opening in Central China, and the first time Zhobai has furnished a property designed by PLD — the Hong Kong practice of Liu Bo, whose Song Dynasty-inspired new Chinese aesthetic gave this project its singular design character.

The Song Dynasty (宋式) light-luxury concept that defines the DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is not a decorative choice but a philosophical one. Song-period Chinese aesthetics — restraint, natural material honesty, ink-wash tonal range, and the subordination of ornament to proportion — translate with remarkable precision into the idiom of contemporary luxury hospitality. For Zhobai’s design and production team, working to this brief meant sourcing materials that carry genuine cultural weight: stone finishes that reference celadon glaze, timber species with the warm grey undertones of aged scholar’s wood, and textile weaves drawn from Song silk traditions. Every furniture piece we produced for this hotel is legible within that framework without being literal or costume-like — contemporary in execution, Chinese in soul.

Lobby and Arrival Spaces

The lobby of DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is among the most architecturally considered arrival environments Zhobai has furnished in recent years. The design uses a monumental feature wall — a digital scenic installation depicting ink-wash landscapes of the Yellow River and Song-era architectural motifs — as the focal point that orientates every furniture arrangement in the public ground floor. Zhobai’s lobby FF&E programme was developed in direct response to this wall, with furniture pieces positioned as frames for the installation rather than autonomous objects competing with it.

The lobby’s central lounge is oriented toward the feature scenic wall; Zhobai positioned a pair of bespoke curved sofas in a warm celadon-toned velvet as the primary seating anchor, their arched backs referencing the rounded window forms of Song-era architecture.

The reception counter — a Zhobai millwork fabrication in a warm grey stone-effect laminate with brushed bronze hardware — extends over six metres to accommodate four simultaneous check-in positions for the high-volume transit guests arriving from Zhengzhou East Station.

The lobby waiting lounge uses Zhobai’s modular sofa system in a warm sand-and-slate palette, with occasional tables in a honed grey marble — a material that carries the celadon-tone reference throughout the public floor programme.

The corner sofa lounge zone provides an intimate enclosure within the open lobby — Zhobai’s L-configuration sofa modules in a warm terracotta bouclé create a visual separation from the main circulation without requiring physical partitioning.

The lobby corridor connecting the arrival zone to the lift lobby: Zhobai specified a continuous wall-mounted console run in smoked oak, with coordinated artwork lighting brackets and floor-level plinth units that maintain the Song-era tonal language through the transition space.

The secondary entrance corridor leading from the hotel’s street-level access point; Zhobai supplied a bespoke welcome console table in dark walnut with a honed stone surface — positioned as the first furniture encounter for guests entering via this route.

The business manager’s office adjacent to the lobby: Zhobai supplied the desk unit, executive chair, and visitor seating in the same warm material palette as the public lobby, ensuring visual continuity between the guest-facing and staff-facing spaces at ground level.

The reception counter at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is the lobby’s single most important FF&E piece by both functional and symbolic measure. Located directly opposite the hotel’s main entrance — facing the axis from Zhengzhou East Station’s east plaza — the counter is the first furniture element every arriving guest encounters. Zhobai designed it as a low, horizon-line piece: 900 mm in height rather than the 1,050 mm conventional in Chinese hotel lobbies, a deliberate decision to maintain visual connectivity between the guest standing at check-in and the scenic feature wall beyond. The counter surface in honed white marble provides the brightness required by Hilton’s brand lighting standards, while the body cladding in a warm grey stone-effect laminate with horizontal grain — referencing the striated sediment layers of the Yellow River karst — grounds the counter in its Central China context.

Guestrooms: 280 Keys Across Five Room Categories

The 280 guestrooms and suites at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East occupy floors three through seventeen, with all rooms benefiting from floor-to-ceiling glazing and views across either the Zhengzhou cityscape or the Qili River (七里河) water corridor that runs adjacent to the property. Hilton’s DoubleTree brand carries specific FF&E standards — the Sweet Dreams by DoubleTree bed specification, in particular, is non-negotiable — and Zhobai’s project team worked directly with Hilton’s Asia-Pacific architecture and construction team to obtain brand approval for all custom pieces before fabrication commenced. The Song-era aesthetic was introduced through material and proportional decisions that comply with brand standards while distinctly exceeding their minimum requirements.

The standard twin room’s entry hall: Zhobai’s mirrored wardrobe door system with recessed push-to-open handles maximises the perceived width of the entry zone, while the warm oak-toned laminate on the wardrobe doors introduces the room’s material identity at first glance.

The Deluxe King Cityview guestroom: Zhobai’s platform bed base in a warm walnut tone, bespoke headboard in a structured ivory linen, and matching bedside table pair establish the room’s furniture language — restrained, contemporary, and unmistakably rooted in Song-era proportional discipline.

The Deluxe Twin configuration uses the same headboard panel system as the king room, adapted to two single-bed positions; Zhobai’s central luggage bench serves as both a physical divider between the two sleeping zones and a practical surface for guest use.

The Qili River view King room features an in-room soaking tub positioned to face the floor-to-ceiling riverside window — Zhobai supplied the teak bath bridge, stone-top side table, and full accessory programme in a coordinated brushed bronze finish.

A high-floor King room at night, with Zhengzhou’s east district skyline as backdrop: Zhobai’s motorised blackout curtain system — paired with a sheer voile inner layer — allows guests to modulate the city light view without leaving the bed.

The headboard is the room’s defining furniture piece, and Zhobai invested considerable design effort in developing a form that works across all room categories while adapting to each tier’s proportional requirements. The standard headboard is an arched panel in a structured ivory linen, 1,300 mm tall — the arch referencing the rounded windows of Song-era pavilion architecture that run as a visual motif through PLD’s design. In executive-floor rooms, the headboard height increases to 1,500 mm and the fabric transitions to a more textured silk-mix weave, creating a perceptible quality distinction without departing from the shared design language. Suite headboards are fully upholstered panels spanning the full wall width behind the bed — a configuration that transforms the bed wall into an architectural statement rather than a piece of furniture.

The Qili River view rooms required a specific furniture adaptation: with the river prospect as the room’s primary asset, Zhobai specified lower-profile occasional seating — a 420-mm seat-height lounge chair rather than the standard 450-mm model — positioned at the window to maintain unobstructed sightlines from the bed to the glass. In rooms with the in-room soaking tub, the tub is positioned on a low stone plinth aligned with the window axis, and Zhobai’s teak bath bridge and bronze accessory programme were specified to sit visually within the room’s palette rather than appearing as imported bathroom catalogue items.

Dining: Two Signature Restaurants and the Lobby Lounge

Qu — All-Day Dining Restaurant

The ground-floor Qu Restaurant is DoubleTree Zhengzhou East’s primary dining venue — a full-service all-day space that opens at 6:30 AM for the mixed Chinese-and-Western breakfast buffet, transitions to à la carte service through the day, and hosts a seafood buffet dinner programme that has already established itself as a leisure dining destination in the Zhengzhou East district. With floor-to-ceiling windows on the garden-facing elevation, the restaurant’s design prioritises the connection between the interior dining environment and the outdoor landscape — a priority that shaped Zhobai’s furniture specification from the outset.

The window dining zone in the Qu Restaurant: Zhobai specified two-top and four-top tables in a warm ash veneer positioned to maximise window-facing seats, paired with upholstered dining chairs in a sage-green fabric that echoes the garden planting beyond the glass.

The floor-to-ceiling window dining wall: Zhobai’s banquette seating system runs the full length of the glazing, upholstered in a warm ivory with decorative stitching that references Song-era silk embroidery patterns — a detail visible only on close inspection, but one that rewards attentive guests.

The breakfast buffet counter: Zhobai fabricated the entire buffet station structure — a 5.6-metre marble-topped counter with integrated hot-food wells, cereal and bread display zones, and concealed lower storage — in a single production run for seamless on-site installation.

The cold dish and salad buffet bar: a separate Zhobai-fabricated station in a darker smoked oak finish, with refrigerated display wells and a raised canopy structure that creates visual separation from the adjacent hot-food counter while maintaining the overall buffet layout’s coherence.

The restaurant’s private dining booth zone uses Zhobai’s high-back banquette system — upholstered back panels in a warm terracotta provide acoustic separation between adjacent booths, creating semi-private dining enclosures without structural partition walls.

Ju — Chinese Restaurant

The Ju Chinese Restaurant entrance lobby on the second floor: Zhobai supplied the reception console, a pair of carved stone garden stools, and the feature lantern display cabinet that frames the transition from corridor to dining venue.

One of Ju Restaurant’s ten private dining rooms: Zhobai supplied the round dining table in a dark lacquer finish, throne-style dining chairs in a burgundy silk-blend velvet, and the full sideboard and service console programme — all coordinated to Cantonese banquet dining protocol requirements.

The second-floor Ju Restaurant serves Cantonese and Henan local cuisine across ten private dining rooms — a layout that caters specifically to the corporate entertainment and banquet clientele that the hotel’s Zhengzhou East Station adjacency generates in volume. Zhobai’s private dining room furniture brief required the gravitas appropriate for high-level business banquets while avoiding the dated aesthetic common in older Chinese restaurant environments. We specified a dark rosewood-effect lacquer for all dining table surfaces — formal without being heavy — and paired the tables with a throne-style chair in a burgundy silk-blend velvet whose seat height was precisely calibrated to the 740-mm table surface height, eliminating the ergonomic mismatch that persists in many Chinese banquet settings where chairs and tables are sourced independently. The ten-room suite was furnished from a single production batch, ensuring absolute consistency in finish and dimension across all dining configurations.

Meetings and Events: 1,000 Square Metres of Convention Infrastructure

The 1,000-square-metre meeting and banquet floor at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East centres on a 527-square-metre pillar-free grand ballroom — a technically demanding space specification that required Zhobai’s banquet furniture to perform at the density and reconfiguration speed expected of a property whose primary commercial adjacency is a high-speed rail hub generating a constant stream of corporate group bookings.

The 527 m² grand ballroom configured in theater style: Zhobai’s padded stacking chairs with aisle-aligned row brackets accommodate the high-density seating required for the ballroom’s 350-person conference configuration, while the gold-tone frame maintains visual elegance in formal banquet settings.

The ballroom in a block-seating classroom configuration: Zhobai’s modular classroom table system uses interlocking row connectors that allow hotel staff to transition between classroom, theater, and banquet layouts in under two hours — essential for back-to-back event programming.

The executive boardroom features a Zhobai bespoke conference table in book-matched walnut veneer — 5,400 mm long, with flush-mounted power and data modules at each of the twelve seating positions.

One of the property’s six small meeting rooms: Zhobai’s modular conference table system — individual modules with locking connectors — is configured here in a compact 10-person boardroom layout using a cobalt blue table drape, the hotel’s secondary brand colour.

Zhobai supplied 400 gold-tone banquet chairs for the DoubleTree Zhengzhou East event floor — all from our commercial hotel collection, with a padded seat and sash-ready back, stackable to twelve per trolley. The ballroom’s 4.5-metre ceiling height and natural daylight from clerestory windows above the perimeter walls made this one of the more pleasant banquet environments Zhobai has furnished in Central China, and we specified chair dimensions — seat width 490 mm — slightly more generous than our standard model in recognition of the ballroom’s relatively relaxed density capacity of 30 tables. The executive boardroom table is a signature piece: a single 5,400-mm surface in book-matched walnut veneer with a hairline-fine brass inlay border at the edge, and twelve flush-mounted power-and-data modules positioned at each chair station — fabricated in Zhobai’s millwork facility and delivered to site pre-finished for a one-day installation.

Recreation and Wellness

The third-floor fitness centre benefits from a full glass wall overlooking the hotel’s lower-level garden — Zhobai supplied the gym’s peripheral furniture: equipment storage racks, towel service station, and the stretch mat storage unit adjacent to the yoga zone.

The fitness centre’s full equipment zone: alongside the cardio and strength machines supplied by the hotel’s fitness equipment contractor, Zhobai delivered the gym’s entrance console, member card display unit, and the water station millwork — coordinating finish and material with the overall third-floor recreation level design.

The third-floor recreation level at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East houses the 24-hour fitness centre, yoga studio, and indoor temperature-controlled swimming pool — all complimentary for hotel guests. The gym’s glass wall elevation overlooking the hotel garden was a key architectural feature that Zhobai’s furniture programme was designed to celebrate rather than obstruct: all equipment-adjacent furniture and storage units are positioned against the internal walls, keeping the glazed elevation free of visual interruption. Poolside furniture — weather-tolerant loungers in powder-coated aluminium with quick-dry mesh slings — was specified from Zhobai’s indoor pool collection, with a bronze finish selected to carry the brand’s brushed-bronze hardware language into the recreation environment.

Delivery and the Zhobai Commitment

The DoubleTree Zhengzhou East project marks a significant milestone in Zhobai’s portfolio: a first-tier Hilton brand opening at one of China’s highest-profile transport infrastructure nodes, designed by one of Asia’s most respected hospitality interior practices, and furnished end-to-end by Zhobai’s integrated FF&E team. The Song Dynasty aesthetic that PLD brought to this project demanded a level of material and proportional discipline that tests the limits of conventional hotel furniture manufacturing — finishes that cannot be approximated by standard catalogue products, proportions that require custom tooling, and textile choices that depend on specialist weaving sources not typically engaged for hospitality work.

Zhobai’s ability to meet that brief reflects the investment the company has made over fifteen years in building a production capability that sits above the mass market while remaining commercially viable for large-scale hotel openings. Every piece in this 280-room programme was reviewed against PLD’s design documentation at the sample stage, approved by Hilton’s architecture and construction team, and delivered pre-installed to room-ready standard — a supply chain and quality control process that compressed on-site installation time while giving the hotel’s pre-opening operations team confidence that the finished product would match the approved samples precisely. We are proud to have contributed the complete FF&E environment to what promises to be the definitive business hotel of Zhengzhou’s new east district.

2026年6月2日
Courtyard Changchun Poly — Marriott FF&E

Project Overview

When Poly Real Estate commissioned the first Courtyard by Marriott in Northeast China’s Jilin Province, the ambition extended well beyond simply opening another internationally branded hotel. The Courtyard Changchun Poly — inaugurated in 2022 at No. 7847 Xihu Avenue in Changchun’s Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone — was conceived as a landmark that would define the hospitality standard for an entire industrial corridor. As the exclusive FF&E partner for this 286-room property, Zhobai Hotel Furniture was entrusted with one of the most comprehensive hotel furniture programmes we have undertaken in Northeast China: lobbies, guestrooms, dining venues, meeting facilities, and recreation spaces, all coordinated across a single integrated delivery.

The hotel’s location tells the story of its primary commercial purpose. Situated immediately adjacent to the FAW (First Automobile Works) NBD business district and within walking distance of the FAW-Volkswagen manufacturing campus, Courtyard Changchun Poly was built to serve the executives, engineers, and commercial delegations that circulate continuously through China’s automotive capital. Fifteen minutes by car to Changchun West Station, two kilometres from Automobile Park Metro Station, and directly opposite a Wanda Plaza — the property sits at the crossroads of Changchun’s industrial economy and its emerging urban leisure infrastructure. Zhobai’s FF&E specification was calibrated to serve both constituencies: the demanding business traveller who expects international Marriott standards, and the domestic leisure guest discovering that Changchun’s automotive heartland has quietly become one of the most liveable new urban districts in the northeast.

Lobby and Public Arrival Spaces

The arrival experience at Courtyard Changchun Poly sets an immediate tone of contemporary restraint. The exterior facade — a clean-lined commercial tower in warm stone cladding and glass curtain-wall — establishes the property’s corporate identity from the street, while the ground-floor lobby transitions guests into a warmer, more residential atmosphere designed to counteract the industrial character of the surrounding development zone.

The lobby entrance zone sets a tone of contemporary warmth; Zhobai supplied the custom millwork reception counter, entrance console tables, and all FF&E framing the arrival sequence.

The reception counter is a Zhobai bespoke fabrication: a curved desk in warm-toned veneer with brushed bronze hardware, designed to project efficiency and approachability simultaneously.

Zhobai’s lobby furniture programme centres on the reception counter — a curved millwork piece in warm walnut veneer with integrated brushed bronze hardware, sized to accommodate three simultaneous check-in positions without appearing monolithic in the double-height lobby volume. Behind the counter, a backlit feature wall carries the Courtyard by Marriott branding in polished metal lettering mounted against a textured stone-effect panel fabricated in Zhobai’s millwork facility in Guangdong and shipped north in completed sections for on-site assembly.

The central lobby lounge features Zhobai’s modular sofa and occasional table programme, arranged to define distinct conversation zones within the open-plan lobby volume.

Corner lounge zones throughout the lobby use Zhobai’s L-configuration sofa modules — flexible enough to accommodate solo guests with laptops as well as small group meetings.

The waiting lounge along the lobby perimeter features Zhobai’s long bench sofa — a configuration that maximises seating density during peak check-in periods without sacrificing visual openness.

Zhobai’s corridor programme includes wall-mounted console tables, artwork lighting brackets, and bespoke corridor benches — details that maintain the design language from lobby to lift lobby to guestroom floor.

The central lobby lounge is anchored by a bespoke circular rug — supplied through Zhobai’s soft-furnishings division — around which we arranged a modular sofa system in a warm sand-toned fabric with dark oak frame components. Occasional tables in three height variations allow guests to configure the zone for laptop working, casual conversation, or simply relaxing with the hotel’s complimentary coffee service. Corner lounge zones extend the public seating programme to the lobby perimeter, with L-configuration sofa modules that create semi-enclosed enclosures without physically partitioning the space.

Lobby Bar

The lobby bar counter is a Zhobai fabrication in polished dark granite and brass-trimmed millwork, positioned to serve both walk-in guests and overflow from the adjacent dining zones.

The casual dining corner adjacent to the lobby bar accommodates informal meals and working lunches; Zhobai specified counter-height stools and compact dining tables suited to solo and duo dining occasions.

The lobby bar at Courtyard Changchun Poly is positioned as an all-day social hub — morning coffee for early departures, afternoon refreshments for arriving guests, and evening drinks for the automotive industry professionals who make up a significant portion of the hotel’s repeat clientele. Zhobai fabricated the bar counter in polished dark granite with a brass-trimmed millwork back bar, the back bar shelving system designed with adjustable display lighting to accommodate both bottle display and the property’s growing glassware collection. Bar stools in a saddle-shaped dark leather were custom upholstered by Zhobai’s soft-furnishings team to the precise seat height required by the counter’s 1,100 mm working surface.

Guestrooms: 286 Keys Across Nine Room Categories

The 286-room inventory at Courtyard Changchun Poly spans a comprehensive range of room types — from efficient standard configurations at 35 square metres to the 74-square-metre suites preferred for corporate entertainment — as well as 90 long-stay apartment-format rooms and a dedicated family room with children’s features. Marriott’s Courtyard brand carries specific FF&E standards documentation, and Zhobai’s project team worked directly with Marriott’s Asia-Pacific procurement liaison to obtain brand approval for all custom pieces before fabrication commenced.

The guestroom entry corridor: Zhobai specified a mirrored wardrobe door system with recessed handles that maximises the perceived width of entry zones in the 35 m² standard room footprint.

The Standard King guestroom living zone combines Zhobai’s platform bed base, upholstered headboard, dual bedside tables, and integrated TV console into a cohesive furniture grouping.

The Basic King configuration uses Zhobai’s space-optimised bedside shelf integrated into the headboard panel, eliminating the need for separate nightstands in the room’s more compact floor plan.

Twin configurations share the same headboard-and-shelf system as king rooms, with the two single beds positioned to provide adequate circulation while maintaining a unified visual composition.

Select double-bed rooms feature an LED ambient lighting system behind the headboard panel — a Zhobai electrical integration that allows guests to select warm or cool accent lighting without external fixtures.

The Deluxe King Cityview bedroom features a full floor-to-ceiling curtain system supplied by Zhobai — motorised blackout panels paired with sheer voile in a warm champagne tone.

The Deluxe Twin Cityview room accommodates corporate travel pairs with generous desk space; Zhobai specified a full-width floating desk at both wall positions to equalise workspace between the two beds.

High-floor king bedrooms benefit from panoramic views of Changchun’s Automobile Development Zone; Zhobai positioned all furniture to maintain unobstructed sightlines from the bed to the floor-to-ceiling glazing.

The dedicated family room features Zhobai’s children’s furniture programme: a low-profile bunk unit with rounded corners, an indoor tent structure, and safety-rated soft furnishings — all specified to meet GB 28007 children’s furniture safety standards.

The family room — one of Courtyard Changchun Poly’s most distinctive room type offerings — required Zhobai to develop a bespoke children’s furniture programme alongside the standard adult FF&E. The room features a custom indoor tent structure fabricated in powder-coated steel with canvas panels, a low-profile bunk bed unit with ladder handrails rated to Chinese GB 28007 children’s furniture safety standards, and rounded-corner occasional tables finished in a playful warm yellow. Adult furniture in the same space maintains the property’s standard material language, ensuring the room functions for parents while delighting children — a balance that required unusually close collaboration between Zhobai’s design team and the hotel’s operational planning staff.

Long-stay apartment rooms feature a Zhobai-fabricated laundry cabinet that conceals the washer-dryer unit behind full-height joinery doors — a practical necessity for extended-stay guests that demanded precise millwork tolerances for ventilation clearance.

The 90 long-stay apartment-format rooms required a fundamentally different FF&E approach from the transient guest rooms. Zhobai developed a series of high-capacity storage pieces — a floor-to-ceiling wardrobe system with full-extension drawers, a laundry cabinet enclosing the washer-dryer unit behind full-height millwork doors, and a kitchen counter unit with concealed appliance storage — all specified in a durable high-pressure laminate finish rated for the daily wear of extended occupancy. The furniture system’s modular construction also allows the hotel’s housekeeping team to reconfigure individual pieces when a long-stay unit transitions to transient inventory, a flexibility requirement specified by Courtyard’s brand operations team.

Bathrooms: Marble Vanities and Wet-Dry Separation

Zhobai’s bathroom vanity units are finished with a honed marble counter top and moisture-resistant MDF carcase — the drawer system uses a slow-close undermount runner rated to 80,000 cycles for hotel environment durability.

Deluxe and suite bathrooms include a freestanding bathtub zone; Zhobai supplied the adjacent timber bath tray, towel ladder, and all bathroom accessories in a coordinated brushed gold finish.

The bathroom programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly was specified to Marriott’s brand standard for wet-dry separation — a non-negotiable feature in all Courtyard-branded properties in the Chinese market. Zhobai’s vanity units combine a honed marble counter with a moisture-resistant MDF carcase finished in a warm off-white lacquer, the drawer fronts in a matching push-to-open configuration that eliminates the need for visible handles in the compact bathroom footprint. Mirror units above the vanity are framed in brushed gold and incorporate LED strip lighting at 3,000K — matched across all 286 bathrooms to ensure colour-consistent illumination for guests regardless of room floor or aspect. In deluxe and suite bathroom configurations, Zhobai supplied the full accessory programme around the freestanding bathtub: a teak bath bridge, towel ladder, floor-mounted robe hooks, and a wall-mounted magnifying mirror — all in a coordinated brushed gold metal finish.

Dining: Three Venues, Three Distinct Furniture Programmes

Wanhui Western All-Day Dining Restaurant

The second-floor Wanhui Restaurant is the hotel’s primary all-day dining venue — a full-service buffet and à la carte space that opens daily from 6:00 AM for breakfast service and returns for dinner with a sea-food buffet offering. With panoramic city-view windows and a broad open-plan floor plate, the space demanded a furniture programme that could accommodate high-turnover breakfast service in the morning and a more relaxed, convivial atmosphere in the evening.

The breakfast zone in the Wanhui Restaurant features Zhobai’s commercial dining chair in a sand-coloured upholstered pad — a spec designed for easy cleaning under high breakfast-service turnover while maintaining a refined appearance.

The Wanhui buffet restaurant features Zhobai’s upholstered banquette seating in a cobalt blue — the hotel’s brand accent colour — running the length of the window wall, with loose dining chairs at the table opposite.

The main dining hall features warm oak-toned dining tables in three sizes — 2-top, 4-top, and 6-top — allowing the floor team to reconfigure the layout for group bookings or social dining events.

The dining corridor connecting the restaurant zones uses Zhobai’s counter-height table-and-stool programme — an efficient use of transitional space that adds seating capacity without interrupting the flow between venue areas.

Yugong Chinese Restaurant

The Yugong Chinese Restaurant private dining booths feature Zhobai’s high-back banquette seating system — the upholstered back panels provide acoustic separation between adjacent booths in the open-plan dining room.

Yugong’s window dining rooms seat private groups of 8–12; Zhobai supplied the round dining table in a red lacquer finish — a traditional Chinese banquet colour choice that reinforces the restaurant’s northeastern Chinese culinary identity.

The third-floor Yugong Chinese Restaurant serves northeast Chinese and Shandong cuisine in a premium environment calibrated for corporate entertainment and family banquets. Zhobai’s furniture brief for this venue was culturally specific: the private dining booths required high-back upholstered seating that simultaneously provided acoustic separation between adjacent groups and communicated the gravitas appropriate for business banquet occasions. We specified a dark rosewood-effect laminate for all table surfaces, paired with throne-style dining chairs in a deep burgundy velvet — a combination that reads as unambiguously formal without veering into the dated aesthetics common in older Chinese banquet restaurants.

Meeting and Banquet Facilities: 1,395 Square Metres of Event Infrastructure

The meeting and banquet programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly is one of the property’s most commercially significant assets. The 1,395-square-metre event floor encompasses five multi-function rooms, a pillar-free grand ballroom with 6.6–7 metre ceiling heights, and a full staging infrastructure — including a 52-square-metre integrated LED wall — capable of accommodating 60 tables for wedding banquets or large-scale automotive industry launch events.

The executive boardroom features a Zhobai bespoke long conference table in a book-matched walnut veneer with integrated power and data modules flush to the tabletop surface.

Smaller meeting rooms accommodate 6–10 delegates with Zhobai’s modular conference table system — individual table modules can be separated and reconfigured for training or workshop layouts.

The large conference hall configured in theater style accommodates up to 300 delegates; Zhobai supplied all padded stacking chairs and the foldable writing tablet arms used in theater and classroom configurations.

The main conference hall with integrated stage — designed with the automotive industry’s product launch format in mind. Note the 52 m² LED wall behind the stage, with Zhobai’s lectern and stage furniture positioned for presentations.

The pillar-free grand ballroom configured for a 60-table wedding banquet: Zhobai supplied all round dining tables, banquet chairs with sash covers, and the cake and gift table programme used in the hotel’s standard wedding package.

The banquet hall’s stage-view seating zone during a formal dinner event; Zhobai’s gold-tone banquet chair — a model from our hotel seating collection — is specified across all 600+ banquet chairs on this event floor.

Zhobai’s meeting furniture programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly covers every scale of the event floor’s operation. The executive boardroom is anchored by a bespoke conference table in book-matched walnut veneer — 5,400 mm long, 1,200 mm wide — with flush-mounted power and data modules at each seating position, specified in coordination with the hotel’s AV integrator so that cable management and technology infrastructure align precisely with Zhobai’s table carcase design. Smaller meeting rooms use a modular conference table system whose individual modules can be separated and reconfigured by hotel staff without tools, enabling classroom, boardroom, and hollow-square layouts from the same furniture inventory.

For the grand ballroom, Zhobai supplied 600 gold-tone banquet chairs — our standard hotel banquet model with a padded seat and sash-ready back — and 60 round dining tables in a dark walnut laminate surface. The chair’s stackability (12 chairs per stack) was a critical specification parameter: the ballroom’s rapid-reset requirements between wedding lunch and corporate dinner events depend on housekeeping being able to clear and redress 60 tables in under two hours, a timeline that drove every handling-efficiency decision in the banquet furniture specification.

Recreation Facilities

The 24-hour fitness centre on the sixth floor; Zhobai supplied the equipment storage units, towel service station, and all freestanding furniture in the gym environment.

The sixth floor recreation level houses the hotel’s full fitness centre, yoga room, and indoor heated swimming pool — all available to hotel guests at no additional charge. Zhobai’s scope on this level was focused on the fitness centre’s peripheral furniture: equipment organiser racks, a towel service station, a trainer’s desk unit, and the locker room benching system. The pool surround was furnished with Zhobai’s resin-weave sun loungers — a model selected for its resistance to the chlorine-laden humid environment that rapidly degrades standard upholstered furniture in indoor pool settings.

Project Delivery and Zhobai’s Integrated FF&E Approach

Delivering a 286-room Marriott-affiliated hotel opening in Northeast China’s winter climate presented logistical considerations that a supplier without deep Chinese market experience would struggle to manage. Zhobai’s Changchun Poly project was planned with delivery sequencing that anticipated the region’s late-autumn weather constraints: all exterior and ground-floor furniture was delivered and installed first, while guestroom furniture followed in a floor-by-floor sequence coordinated with the building contractor’s room completion schedule.

Brand approval — a mandatory step for any FF&E piece that deviates from Marriott’s Courtyard prototypical specification — was managed by Zhobai’s project team through a structured sample submission process: material samples, finish boards, and prototype pieces were submitted to Marriott’s Asia-Pacific architecture and design team at defined project milestones, with review timelines built into the overall project schedule rather than treated as potential delays. All brand-approved custom pieces carry documentation filed with both the hotel owner and Marriott’s records system, ensuring that future renovations can reference original specifications precisely.

Courtyard Changchun Poly opened in 2022 to become the first Courtyard by Marriott in Jilin Province and the first international chain hotel brand in the Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone — a milestone that carries commercial significance for every stakeholder in the project. Zhobai is proud to have contributed the complete FF&E programme to a property that continues to earn a 4.7-star aggregate rating on Ctrip and serves as the hospitality standard-bearer for one of China’s most strategically important industrial districts.

About Zhobai Hotel Furniture

Zhobai Hotel Furniture is a full-service FF&E partner for four- and five-star hotel projects across China and internationally. From millwork fabrication and upholstered seating to soft furnishings, bathroom accessories, and banquet equipment, Zhobai manages the complete furniture lifecycle from design brief through installation and post-opening support. Our project portfolio spans Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Wyndham, and independent luxury brands — each engagement managed by a dedicated project team accountable for on-time delivery and brand-compliant quality across every item in the FF&E schedule.

2026年6月2日
Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre FF&E
Positioned at the beating commercial heart of Johor Bahru — Malaysia’s southernmost city and one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing cross-border economic corridors — Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre opened in 2020 as the definitive address for business travellers, families and leisure guests navigating the Singapore–Johor gateway. An IHG Hotels & Resorts property operating under the globally trusted Holiday Inn brand, the 335-key hotel is part of a seamlessly connected urban complex: JB Sentral railway station is 200 metres away, the Singapore–Johor Causeway immigration checkpoint is a five-minute walk, and the Komtar JBCC and Johor Bahru City Square shopping centres are directly accessible from the building. Zhobai was appointed to deliver the complete hotel furniture FF&E solution for the property — producing and installing the full furniture programme across guestrooms, suites, lobby, dining, conference facilities and the rooftop wellness terrace.

Project Overview

The Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre occupies a strategic position that few hotels in Southeast Asia can match. As the closest international-brand hotel to the world’s busiest land border crossing, it serves a uniquely diverse guest mix: Singapore-based executives making day trips into Johor for business meetings; Malaysian professionals commuting in the other direction; families from across the region taking advantage of Johor Bahru’s growing appeal as a more affordable alternative to Singapore for leisure, shopping and dining; and corporate groups using the hotel’s 1,100 m² of meeting facilities for conferences, product launches and team events. This breadth of guest profile shaped every element of Zhobai’s FF&E brief: furniture that is durable enough for the wear patterns of a high-occupancy transit hotel, contemporary enough to satisfy the design expectations of Singapore-market guests, and family-friendly enough to serve the hotel’s strong leisure segment.

Design Language: Contemporary Southeast Asia

The hotel’s interior design brief established a contemporary business-lifestyle aesthetic — clean architectural geometry, a warm neutral palette of light oak, soft grey and white, accented by the vibrant colours of Malaysia’s multicultural street culture. Batik-inspired geometric prints appear as upholstery accent patterns and corridor artwork frames. Tropical botanical motifs — abstracted rather than literal — feature on feature-wall coverings and cushion textiles throughout the public areas. The overall effect is a hotel that feels distinctly Malaysian without being folkloric: a property that could only exist in Johor Bahru, expressed through the confident, cosmopolitan design language of a city whose identity is shaped as much by Singapore’s modernity as by its own rich Malay, Chinese and Indian heritage. Zhobai’s design team translated this vision into a complete furniture specification — from the lobby lounge to the uppermost guestroom floor — before a single piece entered production.

Guestroom Furniture Programme

The 335-key guestroom programme spans three principal categories — Standard Rooms, Superior Rooms and Suites — across multiple floors of the tower, with city and partial sea views on upper floors and direct-access connectivity to the transport hub below.

Standard & Superior Rooms (28–33 m²)

The hotel’s standard room — at 28 square metres — demands furniture that maximises the sense of space without sacrificing function. Zhobai specified a platform bed in pale oak veneer with a padded headboard in a soft ivory performance fabric, integrated floating bedside tables with USB charging ports and individual reading lights, and a full-width wardrobe and luggage unit running the length of the entry corridor in a light timber laminate with push-to-open hardware. The work desk — a non-negotiable feature for a business-oriented property — is a clean-lined solid surface unit with an integrated power strip and a cable-tidy channel, paired with an ergonomic task chair in a charcoal mesh back and padded seat. Superior rooms on upper floors receive the same furniture package with an upgraded upholstery palette: deeper charcoal and warm camel tones that complement the higher city-view vistas through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Bathroom Furniture

Every guestroom at the Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre features a full marble-finish bathroom — a specification that significantly differentiates the property within the four-star segment. Zhobai supplied a wall-hung vanity console in moisture-resistant MDF with a honed stone basin top, a frameless backlit LED mirror with touch-sensor controls, and a coordinating towel rail in a brushed nickel finish. The vanity unit’s under-sink storage is concealed behind push-to-open doors in a light timber laminate that matches the bedroom’s case goods — a deliberate design decision that gives the bathroom its own sense of considered finish rather than the generic white-box aesthetic of many hotel bathrooms in the category.

Suites (54–55 m²)

The hotel’s suite category doubles the standard room footprint, with a clearly defined living zone separate from the sleeping area — a configuration that serves the hotel’s business guest segment for in-suite meetings and its family guest segment for multi-generation travel. Zhobai furnished the suite living areas with a two-seat sofa in a performance linen weave, a round coffee table in pale oak with a smoked glass top, and a dedicated work zone with a full-width desk and a high-back executive chair. A full-length floor mirror in a pale timber frame and a console table behind the sofa complete the living zone, giving the suite a residential quality that distinguishes it clearly from the standard room product.

Lobby & Lounge Furniture

The hotel’s lobby operates as a social hub for three overlapping communities: guests arriving or departing; the local business community using the lobby lounge as an informal meeting point between JB Sentral and the office towers above; and transit passengers from Singapore resting between appointments. Zhobai’s lobby furniture programme addressed all three: a primary lounge cluster of modular sofas in a warm mid-grey performance fabric with Malaysian batik-print accent cushions; individual barrel chairs in a natural rattan frame with a padded linen seat for single-occupant work-and-wait use; and a series of two-top high tables with bar stools along the window frontage for quick-service coffee and laptop working. The lobby lounge dining zone — serving the hotel’s afternoon tea and evening cocktail programme — received a separate furniture set of upholstered dining chairs in a deeper charcoal with a wooden back rail, at table heights that serve equally for a business lunch and a leisure afternoon tea.

Dining Furniture: Dine @ Eight

The hotel’s principal dining venue, Dine @ Eight, occupies the entire eighth floor and serves a multicultural all-day buffet menu that reflects Johor Bahru’s extraordinary culinary diversity — Malay, Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern dishes sharing equal billing in a setting that welcomes families as enthusiastically as business groups. The furniture brief called for flexibility, durability and a design that energises the buffet-breakfast crowd without feeling harsh for a quieter evening dinner service. Zhobai delivered a programme of four-top dining tables in a medium-dark oak finish with rounded corners for easy service flow, upholstered side chairs in a multicolour stripe-weave fabric that references Malaysian batik without reproducing it literally, and a series of curved banquette booths along the window perimeter for families and groups who prefer a more contained setting. A dedicated children’s dining area received Zhobai’s smaller-format table and chair set in a bright primary-colour palette — a popular feature in a property that actively markets to family guests.

Meeting & Conference Facilities

The hotel’s 1,100 m² of meeting space — anchored by a pillar-free main ballroom capable of hosting 320 guests in round-table banquet configuration or 450 in classroom layout, supported by six smaller boardrooms and seminar rooms — serves Johor Bahru’s growing conference and corporate events market. The proximity to Singapore makes the hotel a natural choice for cross-border corporate events: Singapore-based companies can bring teams across the causeway for off-site workshops, product launches and annual dinners at a fraction of the cost of equivalent Singapore venues. Zhobai furnished the main ballroom with its full banquet package — round tables in dark walnut veneer, stackable banquet chairs in a charcoal fabric with chrome-capped legs, and a portable staging system in a matching dark timber finish. The theatre-configuration layout uses Zhobai’s linking lecture chair in a complementary charcoal upholstery with a folding writing tablet and integrated power point — a setup that seats 450 delegates with no visual clutter and deploys in under two hours from banquet-round to full theatre.

Rooftop Pool & Wellness

The hotel’s rooftop infinity pool — offering an unobstructed panorama of the Johor Bahru city skyline and, on clear days, across the Strait of Johor toward Singapore — is one of the property’s most commercially powerful amenities and its most-photographed social media feature. Zhobai furnished the rooftop terrace with a complete outdoor leisure package: sun loungers in powder-coated aluminium with UV-stable woven mesh slings, paired side tables in the same frame finish with a teak slat insert top, and a series of shade canopy day beds with weather-resistant cushions in a bold tropical stripe pattern. The pool bar area received high bar stools in stainless steel with teak seat inserts and weatherproof back cushions, paired with round bar-height tables in powder-coated aluminium. All outdoor furniture is certified for year-round exposure to Malaysia’s equatorial climate — high humidity, intense UV and frequent heavy rainfall — without loss of structural integrity or colour fastness.

The Zhobai One-Stop Process

Delivering a complete 335-key FF&E programme for a high-volume cross-border commercial hotel in Malaysia — with IHG’s brand compliance requirements and the logistical realities of shipping from Guangdong to peninsular Malaysia — required a disciplined and well-practised delivery methodology. Zhobai’s project ran across four structured phases:
1. Design Collaboration & IHG Compliance (Months 1–3): Zhobai’s design team worked alongside the hotel’s interior architects and IHG’s regional FF&E standards team, producing full furniture schedules, material sample submissions and 3D room visualisations for every guestroom category and public area. IHG brand compliance documentation was reviewed and approved before production commenced.
2. Custom Manufacturing (Months 4–8): All furniture was produced at Zhobai’s ISO 9001-certified Guangdong workshops. Guestroom case goods underwent a 72-hour humidity chamber test to simulate Malaysia’s equatorial climate conditions. Upholstered pieces received fire-retardancy certification per BS 5852 and an abrasion test to a minimum of 40,000 Martindale cycles — the IHG standard for high-occupancy properties. All outdoor furniture components were tested to ASTM G154 UV exposure standards appropriate to a rooftop poolside application on the equator.
3. Logistics & Cross-Border Delivery (Months 9–10): Zhobai coordinated container shipping from Guangdong to Port Klang and onward road freight to Johor Bahru, scheduling deliveries in coordination with the main contractor’s floor-by-floor programme. The hotel’s city-centre location and its direct connection to JB Sentral required careful coordination of delivery windows to avoid conflicts with the station’s operational traffic.
4. On-Site Installation & Snagging (Month 10–11): A Zhobai installation team completed the full room-by-room fit-out over five weeks, from guestroom floors to the lobby, dining hall, conference facilities and rooftop terrace. A final pre-opening walkthrough with the hotel’s general manager and IHG’s quality assurance representative signed off every space before the property opened to guests in 2020.
Result

Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre opened in 2020 and rapidly established itself as the leading commercial hotel address in Johor Bahru — the first choice for Singapore-based corporate groups, cross-border business travellers and families seeking a well-located, well-equipped base for exploring Malaysia’s southern gateway city. The property has maintained strong occupancy and guest satisfaction scores since opening, with reviewer feedback consistently highlighting the room furniture quality, the rooftop pool terrace and the central location as standout elements of the guest experience. For Zhobai, the project demonstrates the full range of our one-stop hotel furniture capability across a contemporary lifestyle hotel brief: from IHG brand-compliant guestroom furniture to outdoor rooftop terrace furniture certified for equatorial climate performance.

Project Snapshot
- Project: Holiday Inn Johor Bahru City Centre
- Operator: IHG Hotels & Resorts — Holiday Inn brand
- Location: Jalan Tun Abdul Razak, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
- Scale: 335 rooms & suites; 1,100 m² meeting space; rooftop pool terrace
- Scope: Full FF&E — guestrooms, suites, lobby lounge, all-day dining, conference hall, boardrooms, rooftop terrace
- Timeline: 11 months from design to handover
- Opening: 2020
- Rating: Four-Star
- Services: Design collaboration · IHG brand compliance · Custom manufacturing · QC · Cross-border logistics · On-site installation
Planning a hotel furniture project in Southeast Asia or an internationally branded property requiring brand compliance? Contact Zhobai to discuss your FF&E requirements.
2026年6月2日