Dye House is the result of the inspired vision of Everett Abitbol of Deacon Hospitality Group and Shannon Maldonado of the lifestyle brand Yowie (their other hotel, The Deacon, occupies a Victorian church in Philadelphia). Before its current conversion, Olneyville s new boutique hotel housed a variety of creative businesses, including furniture, architecture, and ceramics studios.
In fact, ceramicist J Schatz hired Christine West of Kite Architects to get the building up to code and to complete a renovation begun a few years earlier by AD Studio. Abitbol was taken with space when purchasing one of J Schatz s mobile bird feeders, and he returned later to buy the building.