The Harvard Club has 75 guest rooms which are renovated periodically. This project was conceived as a design competition for young alumni so that they could have the opportunity to experience the process involved in designing a real built project at an early stage in their career.

Since most of the people who stay overnight at the Club have a connection to Harvard, the winning scheme is a celebration of alumni at Harvard. The wallcovering is based on a historic pattern that was once in Harvard Hall in Cambridge. The carpet was created to complement it. Each of the guest rooms has a collection of photographs from a year; a mural of tiles in the bathroom lists some of the alumni who graduated that year. Every product was designed by an alumni or faculty: the light fixtures (Lee Mindel, Dino Valaoritus), furniture (Michael Graves), and fabrics (Anni Albers).