
Neal Prince was a trained architect from Rice University in Houston, Texas, who for 60 years was one of the world's foremost international hospitality interior designers. He was also an art historian, art collector and a person with a vast passion for motion pictures and theatre history, especially set designs. These elements came together to build a foundation to Prince's skills, which later became recognized as his ability for designing hotel and restaurant interiors.
Prince incorporated his own passions of the above, into an international branding philosophy that remains as strong today as it was when he developed his philosophy of hotel and restaurant designs, which is visible today, in hotels worldwide.

However, what made Prince different was that he was a pioneer within this industry, along with Dale and Pat Keller of Hong Kong, in designing hotels in countries that never had an international hotel presence. Prince, along with Kenneth Smith (interior designer), Charles Alvey (graphic designer), Richard Simpson (graphic designer), William Embury (interior designer), Joe Grusczak (interior designer), James Ray Baker (interior designer) and Irene D'Alessio (interior designer) and many others, were the first to set the standards for international hotel interiors.
And what is incredible is that he did not have the grand budgets that most designers have today. Prince used local talents and products, when available and appropriate, to augment his designs, which, in return, allowed local artists, gallery owners, merchants and vendors to view InterContinental not as an invader, but as a partner in creating new sources of commence within the local economy. What is even more unique in Prince being different, was that he has always credited his success, not in the terms of "I", but "we". Prince, being from Corsicana, Texas, has always remained modest and respectful and always have contributed his success due to the fact that designing hotels is a team effort, from his departmental staff to his professional associate designers that he had brought on to do a certain project for the vast inventory of InterContinental Hotel holdings.
Prince died of pneumonia on Monday, 3 April 2017 at his home in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 96 years.
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- Neal Prince, InterContinental Hotel Corporation Digital Archives, Singapura InterContinental Hotel, Singapore, Malaysia (1963-1986)[1].
- https://obituaries.corsicanadailysun.com/obituary/neal-prince-902769142