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VOLUME 94 NUMBER 9

ON THE COVER

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At Mii amo, a resort spa in Sedona, Arizona, designed in 2001 by Gluckman Tang Architects and recently renovated by the firm and EDG Interior Architecture + Design, an indoor pool is now the living room, with custom sunken seating upholstered in Brentano Fabrics, surrounded by Stalattite onyx, and backed by a stucco-wall cutout that’s illuminated by shifting natural light. Photography: Douglas Friedman.

features 128 IN THE TERROIR

by Edie Cohen

For Gurdau Winery in Czechia, Aleš Fiala embedded an arched form into the verdant Moravian landscape for producing varietals— and hosting the visitors who taste them.

136 SHIP SHAPE

by C.E. Wallis

The iconic silhouette of traditional wupeng gondolas inspired the undulating roofline at the Boatyard Hotel in Suzhou, China, by GOA and WJ Studio.

144 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

by Elizabeth Fazzare

Nestled amid the trees in a small surf town, Nico Sayulita by Hybrid and Palma is part boutique hotel, part rentable villa, and thoroughly linked to its Mexican site.

152 COLORS OF THE CANYON

by Monica Khemsurov

Gluckman Tang returns to Mii amo in Sedona, Arizona, this time with EDG to renovate and expand the spa resort—and further connect it to the spectacular red-rock surrounds.

160 THE ART OF CHAOS

by Marisa Bartolucci

Atelier Lionel Jadot organizes dozens of mostly Belgian artisan studios for the interiors of Mix Brussels, a massive hospitality entity occupying a landmarked 20th-century building.

168 GATHER 'ROUND THE TABLE

by Wilson Barlow and Lisa Di Venuta

Seven restaurants across three continents embrace organic forms and global palettes, serving up a menu of aesthetic umami.

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At Super Paradise beach club in Mykonos, Greece, Omniview’s renovation includes CAD-generated wall niches filled with locally made ceramics. Photography: Yiorgos Kordakis.

VOLUME 94 NUMBER 9

51 URBAN

by Georgina McWhirter

Forward-thinking city hotels tweak the genre, from a dual- brand tower to a hybrid property that’s also home to students.

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52 COLD FRONT 58 ROUNDUP 71 RESORT

by Rebecca Dalzell and Jen Renzi

Global getaways channel the earthy, organic essence of their unique terrains.

72 THE PEAK OF CHIC 78 ROUNDUP 89 RENOVATION

by Edie Cohen and Jen Renzi

Historic properties in vacation spots from Porto, Portugal, to Pompeii, Italy, get a new lease on life with redesigns that honor tradition—and subvert it, too.

90 A TASTE OF ABRUZZO 96 ROUNDUP

departments 21 HEADLINERS 27 DESIGNWIRE

by Annie Block 32 SHOPTALK 34 BOOKS

by Wilson Barlow 36 PINUPS

by Lisa Di Venuta 41 CREATIVE VOICES Be Our Guest

by Peter Webster

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Toronto multidisciplinary firm DesignAgency continues to be an innovative leader in global hospitality.

107 MARKET edited by Rebecca Thienes text by Rebecca Dalzell and Rebecca Thienes 123 CENTERFOLD Pushing Boundaries

by Athena Waligore

The 2023 CODAawards reveal there’s no limit to the success and beauty of combining commissioned art with spatial design.

191 INTERVENTION

by Wilson Barlow 123

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When reality becomes ever so blurry, the antidote is all about hospitality, you know. Our frenetic daily pace (guilty as charged!) flashes us from one thingy to the next thingy and back, wanting this or desperately needing that, and demanding it yesterday, naturally. Come day’s end, it’s an inevitable head-on collision with the couch (Keilhauer’s for moi) and a milk-and-cereal bash in a bowl (Yabu Pushelberg’s). Now, take Mike’s Ruben sofa and George and Glen’s Departo ceramics out of the equation, however, and that would be the quintessential hamster existence—one that confuses tasks with anything of substance...and that’s definitely not my life, folks.

I actually have a foolproof elixir for this problem. When things get beyond the pale, I drag my bountiful carriage to the most promising and recently designed NYC eatery I know, and presto! My crazy days return sharply to the short-and-long prospect they should always be in. If you suffer the same syndrome, try the above ASAP in that very order: a good night out, a great food joint, and the best helping of design. :) Of course, spas and resorts, nearby or on distant shores, are a direct extension of that prescription. So, be it the newest hip hotel or the now-est hot restaurant (and all points in between), I took the liberty to propose some fabulous getaways right here, assembled and illustrated in that useful and friendly way only Interior Design can. We kick things off by toasting design in the Czech Republic with a winery—built right into the Moravian landscape—where you can take it all in, drink vino, and stay the night. We celebrated Sedona’s red-rock canyon at the just-renovated Mii amo, now with more guest rooms, more spa facilities, and more ways to say aaahhh.

We even showcased a global restaurant roundup so varied and yummy (seven restaurants, three continents!), it’ll surely get you out of the house (almost) every night.

So, dear friends, crack open this very special all-in hospitality issue that will surely fill your belly and your soul. I know I’m full! xoxo

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EDG Interior Architecture + Design “Colors of the Canyon,” page 152

president, ceo: Jennifer Johanson, AIA, IIDA. firm hq: Novato, California. firm size: 65 architects and designers worldwide. current projects: Appellation hotel in Healdsburg, California; Camelback Resort spa renovation in Scottsdale, Arizona; restaurants at the Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos at Costa Palmas in Mexico. honors: IIDA Global Excellence Award; LIV Hospitality Design Award. floating: Johanson is an avid openwater swimmer in Sausalito Bay. eating: She makes weekly visits to the local Marin County farmers market. edgdesign.com

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“Ship Shape,” page 136 founding partner: Zhile Hu. firm site: Hangzhou, China. firm size: 37 architects and designers. current projects: Ansan Hotel in Shaoxing, Academician Centre Hotel in Ningbo, and Huanglong Island Hotel in Zhoushan, all in China. honors: Good Design Award; Andrew Martin International Interior Design Award; Inside World Festival of Interiors finalist.

“Ship Shape,” page 136 founding partner: Binxin Chen.

gamesman: Hu is an active player on the courts, fields, and pitches of various ball sports. adventurer: He’s also an avid traveler who relishes experiencing different and disparate cultures. wjstudio.cn

firm headquarters: Hangzhou,

China. firm size: 500 architects and

designers. current projects: Kangji

Medical headquarters and Hills Time TOD mixed-use development in Hangzhou; Yangxian Xishan revitalization in Wuxi, China. honors: Architizer A+Award; AR Future Projects award. fretwork: Chen plays guitar in the GOA house band. brickwork: He’s also a fan of geometric puzzles and games such as LEGO. goa.com.cn

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“Colors of the Canyon,” page 152 partner: Dana Tang, AIA. firm site: New York. firm size: 15 architects and designers.

“The Art of Chaos,” page 160 founder: Lionel Jadot. firm site: Zaventem, Belgium. firm size: Eight architects and designers.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia; Cove Eleuthera resort renovation and the Island School in the Bahamas. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; NYCxDesign Award; AIA NY Honor Award. then: Tang’s nursery-school teacher predicted she would become an architect. now: She joined Gluckman Mayner Architects in 1995 and was named partner at Gluckman Tang in 2015. gluckmantang.com

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current projects:

Jam Hotel in Gand, Belgium; Herdade da Barrosinha agricultural estate in Portugal. honors: Commerce Design Brussels Award. lineage: Represented by Todd Merrill Studio in the U.S., Jadot is a sixth-generation Belgian furniture designer. lines: He’s also a filmmaker. lioneljadot.com

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Palma “Welcome to the Jungle,” page 144 principal: Ilse Cárdenas. firm site: Mexico City. firm size: Four architects and designers. current projects: Banco de Mexico exhibition in

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Hybrid “Welcome to the Jungle,” page 144 founding partner, design principal:

Robert Humble.

firm site: Seattle. firm size: 12 architects and designers. current projects: The Songbird mixed-use

building in Seattle; Riverhouse high-density housing in Arlington, Virginia. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Honoree; City of Seattle Office to Residential Competition award; AIA Seattle Award of Honor.

zen: Humble enjoys tending to his garden and backyard koi pond. zoom: He also has a weakness for vintage German sports cars, but only room in his garage for one. hybridarc.com

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Aleš Fiala “In the Terroir,” page 128 architect: Aleš Fiala. firm site: Brno, Czech Republic. firm size: Four architects. current projects: Residences and Domaine Eisgrub Winery throughout the Czech Republic. vintage: Fiala founded his firm in 1993. varietal: A favorite local wine is the 2021 Stara Hora Riesling from Gurdau Winery. alesfiala.com

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It was 2017 when collector couple Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu bowed Magazzino Italian Art in a sleek, 20,000-square-foot concrete building by architect Miguel Quismondo, bringing large-scale arte povera to Cold Spring, New York. (Remarkably, the museum hosted a comprehensive Piero Gilardi exhibition that closed just two months before his death last year.) Now, near the main building on the 9-acre site, where miniature Sardinian donkeys roam free, the Robert Olnick Pavilion has opened. In memory of Olnick’s father, the new three-level structure is a collaboration between Quismondo and Alberto Campo Baeza, the architect of the couple’s nearby home, and provides an additional 3,600 square feet for presenting Olnick Spanu’s modern and contemporary Italian art, along with significant works on loan, which, this fall, include paintings by Mario Schifano, Ettore Spalletti sculptures, and Murano glass masterpieces by Carlo Scarpa. The galleries are joined by education/auditorium space, a museum store, and Café Silvia, serving Italian cuisine, of course.

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From top: On the grounds of Magazzino Italian Art, a museum and research center in Cold Spring, New York, dedicated postwar and contemporary Italian art, the 13,000-squarefoot Robert Olnick Pavilion opened in September, its archi­ tects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo choosing a cast-in-place concrete facade that’s similar to that of the site’s main building. Among the “strategically placed windows and skylights,” Quismondo notes, a ceiling aperture pierces a gallery with light, illuminating polished concrete flooring.

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Clockwise from bottom left: At Chicago’s Little Goat Diner by Brand Bureau, oak veneer clads walls and booths, the latter with vintage photographs of city landmarks and heroes, mini jukeboxes, and custom milk-glass pendant fixtures fabricated by Anthony Frank Keeler. The custom clock by Lumichrom overlooks the 42-seat, linoleum-floored dining room, the Grand Rapids Chair Co Sherman chairs and customized ISA International tables kept loose to accommodate parties of any size, or remove completely for private events. Fiber-cement siding hosts custom 21-foot-tall neon signage. Chef Stephanie Izard leans against the counter fronted with fluted ceramic tile from Design and Direct Source.

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It’s practically a herd. That would be the number of projects AvroKO World has completed with Boka Restaurant Group, the team behind chef Stephanie Izard’s nationwide Girl & the Goat empire. The latest in the portfolio is Little Goat Diner in Chicago by Brand Bureau, the decade-old sister studio of AvroKO that does branding and strategy for clients ranging from Panera to Eden Rock. For LGD, which opened in 2012 but recently relocated, Brand Bureau cooked up a new approach for the eatery’s 1,185 square feet: “a casual yet elevated concept that captures Izard and her menu’s spirit and funk,” says Hilary Miners, BB’s head of environment design. “We nicknamed it ‘retro electrica.’” That translates to nostalgic wood paneling, checkered linoleum flooring, a lime-andlemon palette, and notes of neon outside and in, particularly surrounding the 3-foot clock with goat-logo hands.

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Clockwise from top: Master-planned by Studio Gang, the transformed Tom Lee Park in Memphis features the 16,000-square-foot, 25-foot-high Sunset Canopy, dedicated to Tyre Nichols, with a roof of 79 pyramidal units of Mississippi southern yellow pine slats that let in light and air but keep out rain and, through Project Backboard, a floor painted with Democratic Experiment by Memphian artist James Little. Landscape architecture for the 31-acre park, the first to provide ADA-compliant river access, is by Scape, which is teaming again with Gang for Stanford University’s Doer School of Sustainability commons. A Monument to Listening is Theaster Gates’s site-specific commission of 33 honed-basalt stools, each weighing nearly a ton, that he hopes will “provide a safe space to talk about complex issues and symbolize the possibility of racial and economic equality.”

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“A can’t miss design team.” That’s how Carol Coletta, Memphis River Parks Partnership president and CEO, describes the ensemble responsible for reinvigorating the city’s 31-acre Tom Lee Park, named after the Black levee worker who, in 1925, while steering his skiff up the Mississippi, rescued 32 people from a capsized riverboat, himself not knowing how to swim, but wasn’t dedicated to Lee until 1954, two years after his death. Over the decades, the flat ¾-mile stretch had become arid and lifeless. That is until women-led firms Studio Gang and Scape, and Black artists Theaster Gates and James Little came upon the scene. Among Jeanne Gang and team’s contribution as master planner and architect is the Sunset Canopy, an expansive community-activity pavilion of locally sourced glulam supported by steel “quad pods,” which nod to the riverfront’s industrial past, all anchored by a vibrant floorwork by Little. Other forms of life—30,000 yards of sod, thousands of native trees and plants, myriad pollinators, undulating hills—are the work of Scape’s Kate Orff and her crew of landscape architects. A few verdant steps away from all the buzz is Gates’s meditative installation of 33 monumental stone stools—one for Lee and everyone he saved.

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What topical issues are impacting hospitality?

“As the sector faces higher interest rates, it’s proven difficult for new investors to break into the industry.

Firms can overcome this by solid­ i­fying strong relationships with developers and hoteliers, result­ ing in numerous collaborations and a continuation of projects.”

—Sara Duffy, Stonehill Taylor

“Post-pandemic momentum has given hospitality a boost, and these experiences are, more than ever, design-driven.

That’s rich creative fuel for accelerating original thinking and fostering reinvention.

In particular, we are rethinking luxury and lifestyle hospitality in terms of mindset and well-being.”

“The hottest topic is sustainability.

We constantly research the materials we use to make sure they meet our Gensler Product Sustainability Standards, which define minimum criteria for high-volume, marketready categories. We strive for timeless and durable materiality, letting furniture and art be the pieces that can be easily replaced due to wear and tear or changing trends.”

—Anwar Mekhayech, DesignAgency

—Candra Mathis, Gensler

“The evolving demographics of travelers.

Recent Forbes research suggests that 59 percent of individuals who anticipate more travel in the coming years are between 18 and 26. The challenge is catering to this younger, more contemporary audience without sidelining seasoned travelers. Each generation interprets luxury differently. The rising rate of younger travelers also ushers in another challenge: merging luxury with sustainability.”

—Amy Jakubowski, Pierre-Yves Rochon

“One of the greatest challenges—and opportunities—for the hospitality industry is the evolution of the guests themselves.

Travelers are no longer choosing hotels based on rewards points; they are looking for properties that address climate change, physical and mental health, and options to work and play. The future of hospitality must go beyond recycling bins and comfortable beds. A greater understanding of climatic impact and how to aid guests’ emotional growth is critical.”

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At the Artisan’s Table

By Jane Schulak and David Stark Text by Kathleen Hackett New York and London: Vendome, $65 280 pages, 280 color illustrations

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David Stark earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in painting. But he’s not one to toil away hours alone in a studio. Instead, as the founder of event-production and experiential-marketing agency David Stark Design and Production, which counts Target and the Robin Hood Foundation among its clients, he sees himself as a creative collaborator, with the difference being that, “Fine artists create their own problems to solve, while he solves prob­ lems others bring to him.” That's from the intro­duction to this book, in which he and Jane Schulak, founder of the Culture Lab Detroit nonprofit, where Stark serves on the board, take a worldwide tour of craft through the lens of table decoration. Similar to their recent collab­oration for Christie’s, in which Stark and Schulak created exquisite vignettes to showcase upcoming lots for sale, At the Artisan’s Table elevates a simple domestic act to high art.

In each of the 18 chapters, the two stage an intricate tabletop featuring the work of one unique maker, such as Loretta Pettway Bennett, a fifth-generation Gee’s Bend quilter, or AfroLatino potter Roberto Lugo, who’s currently exhibiting “The Gilded Ghetto” at R & Company gallery in New York. Aaron Delesie’s decadent photography complements writing by Kathleen Hackett, who knows a thing or two about table settings from her time as a Martha Stewart Living editor.

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be our guest Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Toronto multidisciplinary firm DesignAgency continues to be an innovative leader in global hospitality

From the day of DesignAgency’s inception 25 years ago, hospitality has been baked into the Torontobased firm’s DNA or, at least, that of its three founders, Allen Chan, Matt Davis, and Anwar Mekhayech.

Friends and all, at the time, recent graduates—the first two in landscape design from the University of Toronto, the third in engineering from the University of Western Ontario—the trio joined forces to work on a project of Mekhayech’s devising. The son of a successful restaurateur, he hoped to open his own place someday. So he enlisted Chan and Davis for a competition to design and run a student bistro in U of T’s Grad House, a new building by Morphosis Architects. They won, and sPaHa, an unpretentious yet attention-grabbing restaurant, bar, and lounge was born—and the fledgling firm along with it.

It was an auspicious time to launch a hospitality-focused multidisciplinary practice—interior design, architectural conceptualization, strategic branding, and visual communications are all on the buffet—as the boutique-hotel movement expanded. Toronto was no hospitality-design desert—hello, Yabu Pushelberg—but DA brought a fresh, youthful energy to the scene, culminating with the 2012 introduction of two international boldface brand names, Momofuku restaurant and the Soho House members’ club, to the city. The firm established its own international reputation as creative directors for Generator Hostels, a European chain that, as Mekhayech says, “was a mix of boutique hotel and budget hostel that launched a segment in the market, from both a design and a travel point of view.” That long-term relationship led DA to open an office in Barcelona, Spain, which has since been joined by studios in Los Angeles and Washington. A dazzling spectrum of clients, from Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis to NeueHouse and Motto by Hilton, has kept the hospitality quotient of the founders’ business elevated. We talked to them about some of the highlights.

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From top: One of three bedrooms in the Artist Loft, an apartment annex at Toronto’s Drake Hotel, conceived by DesignAgency as lodging for performers appearing in the property’s entertainment venues. DA’s founding partners—from left, Matt Davis, Allen Chan, and Anwar Mekhayech—in the multinational firm’s Toronto headquarters.

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DesignAgency started 25 years ago with the sPaHa student bistro. How did the hospitality practice evolve from there?

Matt Davis: It was a long road to get to the hotels.

We did a lot of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and entertainment-based venues, slowly building up to bigger, more notable projects. The next step was into multiunit residential—larger buildings with amenity spaces. About a decade in, we started getting our first hotel breaks, lobbies first, then guest rooms.

Allen Chan: When we launched, food and beverage was where hospitality design was at; it wasn’t such a huge thing for hotels. That began to change as the boutique hotels came online and lifestyle magazines started focusing on them.

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Clockwise from top left: The terrace suite atop the modern wing, a five-story addition to the Drake

by Diamond Schmitt Architects with interiors by DA. Social areas and workspaces at NeueHouse Venice Beach, the private club’s third Los Angeles location, all by DA. Branding on coasters at Moonraker, a roof­ top restaurant at the Pendry Washington DC–The Wharf. A cabin at Dimensions Algonquin Highlands, a wellness retreat in rural Ontario offering legal psychedelic-assisted experiences. The exterior of the cabin, one of 15 on the 40acre lakeside property. Business cards for the Dalmar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The pool terrace at the 209-room property, DA’s first ground-up lifestyle hotel. Botanically inspired branding for Flora Flora, another restaurant at the Pendry.

Is that when you began working with Generator, the European hostel brand?

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MD: Yes, it gave us a chance to rethink everything about what hospitality was in the new market space, looking at it as a millennial brand, asking how people are traveling today, what the experience is, how to activate lobbies and food-and-beverage areas, so guest rooms are more like crash pads where you don’t spend too much time because you’re out in the lobby and those other spaces. Working as Generator’s creative directors in nine countries across Europe helped leverage us into the hotel world because the industry saw what we could achieve with a budget in a sector that hadn’t been design focused.

During your second decade, you helped bring Momofuku and Soho House to Toronto, but you also got your first ground-up lifestyle hotel project. Tell us about it.

AC: That was the Dalmar, a 209-room, 25-story property that opened in 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, not on the beach but downtown, so it has a modern urban arts-district vibe along with the classic indooroutdoor style of a Floridian resort. It was exciting to be able to look at the master plan and do all the programming—where to put a restaurant, a coffee shop, and so on. We worked with the architect, Sol-Arch, on the skin of the building, too, as well as doing all the creative services, really getting into the property’s entire branding portion—how to tell its story, how to weave it into the interior design. It was a passion project that took almost five years.

A more recent ground-up project is the Drake Hotel. What was DA’s role there?

Anwar Mekhayech: Drake is a hospitality group centered in Toronto, where it opened its first boutique hotel around 2004. The group came to us about five years ago to work with local architect Diamond Schmitt on adding a five-story modern wing that would provide 32 more guest rooms and a penthouse suite, a new lobby experience, and a jewel-box bar that sits right on Queen Street West. It was more of a maximalist project, layered and strong on arts programming because Drake has an exceptional curator.

It opened in 2022, a very successful project, I think, from a creative point of view and also for the city.

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Clockwise from top left: Radiator, a Toronto office and retail development in a former factory. A tote bearing the project’s logo. Generator Copenhagen, a transformed six-story Philippe Starck–designed apartment building and DA’s third project for the European hostel chain. A lounge at the DA-refurbished Generator London, once a police station. The skylit gallery and event space at Generator Berlin Mitte, housed in two converted 19th-century office buildings.

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AM: That’s been a great relationship for the past five years, where merging hospitality, culture, and shared working environments was a mantra. We designed the rooftop restaurant at the Hollywood location, then transformed the 11th floor of the New York flagship, by Rockwell Group, into a premium workspace, followed by the build out of another L.A. location in the famous Bradbury Building downtown. Also in L.A., we recently finished the Venice Beach club house, which has a strong art program. Over the past 25 years, working and curating with gallerists and artists has really ramped up for us and will continue to be a strong component of our projects.

You’ve also dipped a toe into an emerging luxury-retreat category that offers psilocybin and other induced experiences.

MD: We worked on a startup, Dimensions Algonquin Highlands, a 40-acre, 15-cabin property in Ontario where guests can go on a curated psychedelicassisted spiritual journey—all within the Canadian legal framework, of course!

New therapies and technologies are leading influences on luxury wellness design, and psychedelics are definitely one of the trends. —Peter Webster

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cold front firm: Studio Shoo project: Ibis Styles site: Kogalym, Russia keys: 123

Contemporary geopolitics renders travel to Russia verboten. But that has not meant the nation’s hospitality designers have ceased creative output. Witness Studio Shoo’s most recent hotel, in Kogalym, Western Siberia. The 123-key property for Ibis Styles—a French brand of no-frills budget destinations owned by Accor—was slated to open to the public last year but, for obvious reasons, never did. When or if this Ibis eventually welcomes guests, its 7,600 square feet are primed and ready to go, conceived as a winter wonderland that draws inspiration from the location’s subarctic climate.

Studio Shoo was founded in 2017 by architect Shushana (“Shoo”) Khachatrian, who specializes in interiors and furniture for clients such as Novotel that evoke what she terms “vivid minimalism”: bold but simple shapes, bright colors, and a dash of ironic whimsy. Based prior to 2022 in both Moscow and Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Studio Shoo has since decamped to the latter for good.

The Russian Ibis—now in essence an empty dressed set—is more fanciful than Khachatrian’s typical designs, with an icy palette evoking hues of snow and sky. Level one houses reception and lounge, a restaurant and bar, and a pair of meeting rooms; guest accommodations are located on the next five

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Clockwise from opposite top: Potted evergreens and Shane Schneck’s Bowler granite-base side tables dot the lobby lounge.

A guest room’s polyamide carpet and Trevira CS polyester–upholstered sofa are custom. In a breakfast area, built-in terrazzo seating and a custom table meet 41zero42’s Futura porcelain floor tile, printed with Bauhaus-inflected shapes. Emilio Nanni’s Hippy seat cozies up to a birch-printed tabletop standing on concrete-effect porcelain tile in the restaurant. Also in this space are Estudi Manel Molina’s Kaiak chairs.

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Clockwise from top: Below custom arboreal-printed acoustic panels, Aluvia pendant fixtures made of precision-cut aluminum leaves survey the restaurant. Suspended wooden ceiling elements resemble rock strata or tree-growth rings in reception, where the check-in desk is a tabletop inserted into a real boulder. Tree-stump nightstands feature in guest rooms. The palette was influenced by the subarctic climate of freezing winters and cool summers. Studio Shoo designed the pattern on the meeting room’s polyamide carpet.

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stories. “We did our utmost to create a multisensory approach and came up with the concept of taiga, a magnificent fairy forest with a one-of-akind ecosystem,” the designer says. Generally referred to in North America as boreal or snow forests, taiga feature thick coniferous groves of pine, spruce, fir, or larch. Naturally, real evergreen specimens dot the lobby lounge, joined by a curved glacier-blue sofa, forest-green armchair, and tree-stump side table arrayed around a midcentury-style fireplace with a flared black-metal hood. It’s a cozy vignette capped by an acoustic ceiling custom-printed with a ghostly crosshatch of branches and foliage—a motif that repeats on guest room walls. “I was inspired by engravings,” Khachatrian says, noting the intriguing push/pull effect of viewing the abstract details close up and the larger photorealistic image from afar.

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Clockwise from top left: In guest bathrooms, wall tile depicts a hand-drawn fossil motif. Guest rooms are located on levels two through six. Painted abstract mountain peaks on walls lend dynamism to circulation zones. Graphics on guest room walls further the concept of a taiga, or snow forest.

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graphics add pop. The narrative through line is clear from the get-go, as even the reception desk is a piece of taiga theater: an enormous real boulder embedded with a cantilevered tabletop. studioshoo.com —Georgina McWhirter FROM FRONT &TRADITION; MISSANA: SEATING (LOUNGE). HAY: SIDE TABLES. HALBMOND TEPPICHWERKE: CARPET (GUEST ROOM). DELIUS: SOFA FABRIC. BILLIANI: GRAY CHAIRS, WHITE CHAIRS (RESTAURANT). MUUTO: BANQUETTES. ENEA DESIGN: STOOLS, WOOD CHAIRS. UMAGE: PENDANT FIXTURES. ENEA DESIGN: CHAIRS (MEETING ROOM). CERAMICHE REFIN: WALL TILE (BATHROOM). HANSGROHE; IDEAL STANDARD:

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bulgari hotel tokyo firm ACPV Architects site Toyko keys 98 recap The Roman jewelry brand’s first hotel in Japan, a sky-high aerie by longtime company collaborators Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, boasts an attention to detail as precise as the cut of a gemstone. The design is in constant dialogue between Italy’s la bella figura and Japanese minimalism: Venetian terrazzo floors and matte-gold painted ceilings on one hand, bedspreads by an ancient kimono-textile producer and bell-shape katōmado windows on the other.

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hotel genevieve firm Rohe Creative site Louisville, Kentucky keys 122 recap The Philadelphia interiors firm and the Texasbased hospitality group Bunkhouse, both owned and operated by women, collaborated on this hip East Market district boutique property inspired by the patron saint of Paris (celebrating the city’s French origins) and all things Louisville (bourbon, horses, disco balls). The playful mash-up of French modernism, old-world charm, and contemporary trends are softened by curvaceous custom furniture and energized by saturated warm and cool hues.

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keys 71 recap A once character-lacking lodging has been renovated into a vibrant hostel in the heart of the renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site. Painted architectural elements like funky blue barrel vaults and a green exposed ceiling seen peekaboo through a circular dropped-ceiling cutout pair with funky modular furniture and chic but budget-friendly finishes such as toile wallpaper. lejarraga.com

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penny williamsburg firm Stonehill Taylor site Brooklyn, New York keys 118 recap From the developers behind the Freehand and the Line, this pet-friendly—and thus millennialattracting—hybrid of hotel and Bard College gradstudent housing (the 102 dorm rooms occupy the upper floors), wears its community spirit on its sleeve. Working with local nonprofits LAND Gallery and Pure Vision Arts, Penny showcases artwork by New Yorkers with developmental disabilities alongside furnishings and sculptures from Brooklyn creatives such as Dusen Dusen, Fitzhugh Karol, and Yuko Nishikawa—whose studio is blocks away.

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nomad hostel firm RCAA site Treviso, Italy keys 11 recap The adaptive reuse of a barn on the city’s outskirts is now lodging with a bar and coworking space. All furniture is fully modular and demountable, like the innovative folded-cardboard chairs in the lounge and the guest rooms’ custom single beds that can be joined into doubles. The only color throughout, even the industrial-grade resin flooring, is a warm golden yellow chosen for its connection to the flag of the Republic of Venice.

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firm Yabu Pushelberg site Los Angeles keys 727 combined recap A 37-story Gensler-designed tower in DTLA houses a slinkily sophisticated, dual-brand hospitality complex—and guests share the amenities. On one side there’s a Moxy outpost styled after the 1969 counterculture film Easy Rider, with rammed-earth lobby walls and a bar inspired by a roadside gas station. On the other is an AC Hotel envisioned as an artist’s studio with Spanish architectural roots, dotted with Dennis Lin’s sculptural wood totems. yabupushelberg.com —Georgina McWhirter

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See page 72 for Kona Village, a Rosewood Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, by NicoleHollis and Walker Warner Architects.

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the peak of chic firms: nicolehollis; walker warner architects project: kona village, a rosewood resort site: kailua-kona, hawaii keys: 150

From left: A wood sculpture by Kamran Samimi and bark cloth pieces by Roen Hufford welcome guests to reception. In the main restaurant, an installation of traditional canoe sails by local artist Kaili Chun hangs over a live-edge mahogany table.

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In 2011, a tsunami destroyed the beloved Hawaiian resort Kona Village. For five decades, the Big Island hideaway was known for its paradisal location on Kahuwai Bay and a relaxed, convivial vibe; families returned year after year. Frequent collaborators Greg Warner, cofounder/partner at Walker Warner Architects, and Nicole Hollis, creative director and principal of the eponymous interior design studio, had the formidable task of formulating the next iteration of the property: Kona Village, A Rosewood Resort.

“We felt we had a responsibility to honor the memories of the old Kona Village, but also look at it with a new vision for future guests,” Hollis recalls. That meant keeping the summercamplike environment but rethinking the architecture to better reflect the island’s heritage and meet modern sustainability standards. The original resort had a Polynesian theme, but Warner sought to nod to the Hawaiian village that preceded it.

He and his team looked at old photographs, talked to descendants of the inhabitants, and came up with a concept based on thatched-roof shelters called hale. “When you come to Kona Village, it’s not about the architecture,” Warner says. “You see right through the architecture to understand the place.”

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His firm selected traditional-looking materials that are durable and sustainable. For the thatch, the architects replaced native pele grass with recycled plastic; aged red cedar siding evokes coconut-tree wood. On the interiors, Douglas fir walls and ceilings—treated to resemble driftwood—can withstand humidity.

“The wood looks like it has been in the sun and scrubbed by ocean breezes,” Warner notes.

The design of the 150 guest structures depends on where they sit on the site. Yellow and blue tones define those by the ocean; the north village, built over lava flow, has a red-and-black palette.

Furnishings include oak beds inspired by the shape of a boat, rugs with Hawaiian motifs, and dark concrete bathtubs that echo the rugged volcanic landscape outside. Hollis notes that furniture and finishes were chosen to evoke the feel of an upscale residence on the island, on which many she and Warner have collaborated.

Over 200 artworks across the 80-acre property—nearly all by Hawaiians—evoke the island’s history and culture. An installation of three pe’a, or canoe sails, by Kaili Chun, hangs from the vaulted ceiling of the main restaurant. Multiple pieces by Roen Hufford introduce guests to the ancient Hawaiian art of kapa (dried bark cloth). Outside the spa, two cast-bronze sculptures by John Koga

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Clockwise from opposite top: Paola Lenti’s Play ottomans, a custom sofa, and a Pegge Hopper painting furnish a suite living area. Queen suites have custom oak headboards.

Carlos Motta’s Timbó chaise lounges appoint the spa’s outdoor hydro circuit. Outside a spa treatment room, an Itz Workshop & Studio chair and footrest overlook a lava field.

Paul Grace’s photograph and a rattan-framed mirror hang in a king suite. Aged red cedar clads the exterior of the main restaurant, its profile evoking the Polynesian style of the original resort.

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Clockwise from top: A salvaged-teak lounge chair and handwoven-fiber stool face Jordan Souza’s carvedwood artwork in a suite’s outdoor living room. A bath­ room’s stone tub has a view of a lava field. The pool overlooks Kahuwai Bay. Walls and ceilings through­ out are Douglas fir.

h o s p i t a l i t y resort sit atop a field of lava, referencing a molten flow and making a powerful connection with the landscape. nicolehollis.com; walkerwarner.com —Rebecca Dalzell FROM FRONT SUTHERLAND FURNITURE: ARMCHAIRS (RECEPTION), CHAIR (KING SUITE).

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super paradise beach club firm Omniview Design recap Tasked with reinventing a 1971-built beach club— the island’s first—the firm combined the best of old and new, preserving the chill retro vibe while leveraging cutting-edge technology for au courant takes on traditional elements, such as the computer-generated curves that distinguish everything from the wood-ceilinged bar to wall niches showcasing locally made pottery and bottled libations. omniview.com

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faraway martha’s vineyard firm Workshop/APD site Edgartown, Massachusetts keys 75 recap This near-the-waterfront hotel’s mid-centurymeets-modern redesign—including an expanded lobby, new courtyard pool with lush plantings, and revamped décor—is based on a neat conceit: The team conjured as muse an island native who grew up in the 1960’s, now an avid gardener and mystic fluent in the healing powers of plants who hosts artsy bashes in her bohemian-botanical manse.

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albor san miguel de allende, tapestry collection by hilton firms Esrawe Studio; Productora site San Miguel de Allende, Mexico keys 93 recap The clean-lined architecture of this new-build property thoughtfully integrates with its surroundings. Coloration of the ground level, housing the public spaces, is inspired by the purple tones of the mountainous terrain, while the upper levels devoted to guest accommodations feature lighter, more serene shades. The abstract motifs adorning artist Omar Barquet’s ceramics—some cladding ceiling-hung sculptural elements—were likewise sparked by local flora.

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Building Connection Through Culture The Cultura Custom Broadloom and Rugs Collection was inspired by the natural beauty found in the Oaxacan community and culture.

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faern arosa altein firm Run for the Hills site Arosa, Switzerland keys 126 recap The London studio’s refined-rustic refurbishment of an alpine wellness resort, set in a national park, offers guests a cozy retreat for après-ski socializing, with cosseting upholstery (think sheepskins, Swiss-cross wool blankets), characterful timber furniture, and a rust-toochre palette. A dose of the unexpected comes from the camera-ready Wes Anderson–inspired reception desk and Slim Aarons photographs. runforthehills.com

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autocamp zion firms HKS; Narrative Design Studio keys 72 recap Nestling up to Zion National Park, the outdoor-lodging brand’s latest property honors its red-rock desert locale. Guests sleep in custom Airstreams, cabins, or tents and hobnob in the communal clubhouse, featuring expansive glazing, an easy in/out flow, and an earthy palette of hues and materials, including sustainable cork walls and furniture. hksinc.com; narrativesf.com —Jen Renzi 86

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The Monaco Chair and Bistro Table, designed by Eugeni Quitllet. I sutherlandfurniture.com

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old-school with a twist Historic properties in vacation spots from Porto, Portugal, to Pompeii, Italy, get a new lease on life with redesigns that honor tradition— and subvert it, too

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See page 104 for The Largo in Porto, Portugal, by Space Copenhagen.

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a taste of abruzzo Despite its Adriatic Sea coastline and Apennine Mountains, the Abruzzo region in central Italy lies mainly off the beaten tourist path. The town of Castel di Sangro in the province of L’Aquila is the exception. A destination for gastronomes, aspiring chefs, and intrepid travelers, it exerts a siren call via the three-star Michelin restaurant Reale, housed within Casadonna, the 16th-century former Benedictine monastery that’s now a hotel. The renovation and conversion of the 32,300-squarefoot property into a 10-room getaway and culinary academy entailed intense client-architect collaboration. Brother-sister owners are acclaimed chef Niko Romito (who also helms Bulgari restaurants in Paris and Milan) and Cristiana Romito, a multilingual translator turned accredited sommelier From left: The former monastery turned hotel is owned by brother and sister Niko and Cristiana Romito, a chef and som­ melier, respectively. A Mario Giacomelli photograph overlooks pieces by Gio Ponti, Antonio Citterio, and Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in the ground-floor Reale suite.

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firm: Studio Leonardo Project project: Casadonna site: Castel di Sangro, Italy keys: 10

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and maître d’hôtel. The architect is Leonardo De Carlo of Pescara-based Studio Leonardo Project, who characterizes his style as “clean and minimal, with strong character.” That translates here to “simplicity and synthesis,” Niko Romito affirms.

His sister sdds: “Every detail creates a coherent, authentic whole.”

The story starts in 2000 when i fratelli Romiti took over the trattoria started by their father in a nearby town. Wanting to expand in terms of space and the hospitality component, they purchased Casadonna in 2007 and moved Reale there in 2011. The hotel is the most recent addition. Per De Carlo, the project was driven by “the balance of materials: recovered wood, iron, glass, ancient stone, old ceramics, linen, and boiled wood.”

Reused marble sliced from salvaged blocks paves the entrance, restaurant, fireplace room, and tearoom. Walls are finished with cocciopesto, a compound of plaster and crushed brick. Glass, newly framed in thin iron profiles, abounds, while original wood planks form ceilings. Accenting the all-white envelope are colorful artworks and photography by the likes of Mario Giacomelli, Joseph Kosuth, and Ettore Spalletti.

The ground level is devoted to the restaurant, the kitchen, an indoor-outdoor event room created by a garden enclosure, and Niko Romito’s laboratory.

The second story, wrapping a terrace, houses reception plus guest accommodations. Floor three contains a breakfast room, lounge, shop, and winery. The remaining suites occupy the topmost floor. Below-grade, overtaking erstwhile stables, is Reale’s 10,000-bottle wine cache. (The bilevel culinary institute is in a separate structure.)

Each of the six rooms and four suites is unique, featuring custom furnishings—comprising a collection the collaborators market under the label 92

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Clockwise from top left: Reale restaurant’s hallway features a Le Corbusier chair and artwork by Ettore Spalletti and Joseph Kosuth. The 16thcentury main building is a former monastery. In Reale, armchairs by Arne Hovmand-Olsen flank a 19th-century English table, surveyed by a Spalletti painting. A Mimmo Jodice artwork, 19thcentury sideboard, and floor lamp by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzo form a vignette in the third-floor lounge, with the breakfast room visible beyond. The Poesia suite’s bathroom is outfitted with double vanities. A neon work by Kosuth lights up the lounge, furnished with Ponti armchairs and the Castiglioni brothers’ Arco floor lamp. Flooring and stairway are formed from reused marble.

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Clockwise from top right: The Poesia suite, with an open bedroom and soaking area, features side and bedside tables by Eero Saarinen. An Antonio Citterio sofa bed and custom tables, bench, shelving units, and mirror furnish the Reale suite. Giopato & Coombes designed the Reale suite’s tub.

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Imperfetto—complemented with classics by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Antonio Citterio, Arne Jacobsen, Vico Magistretti, Gio Ponti, and Eero Saarinen, most acquired by the proprietors.

Hospitality doesn’t end at the property’s ancient walls. Casadonna’s site includes a highaltitude vineyard producing primarily Pecorino (the white grape, not the cheese), an orchard, and rose and botanical gardens, and 10 beehives supply homegrown provisions. All paint an enticing scene encouraging us to—presto!—make reservations. studioleonardoproject.com —Edie Cohen FROM FRONT FLEXFORM: SOFA, LOUNGE (REALE SUITE). FLEXTEAM: BED. ARTEMIDE: BEDSIDE LAMPS. CASSINA: CHAIR (REALE SUITE), LOUNGE CHAIRS (LOUNGE), CHAIR (HALL). FLOS: TABLE LAMP (REALE SUITE), FLOOR LAMPS (LOUNGE). IMPERFETTO COL­ LECTION: BOOKSHELF, TABLES, MIRROR, BENCH (REALE SUITE), MIRRORS (POESIA BATHROOM), COFFEE TABLE (LOUNGE), DOORS, SINKS. PALLUCCO: FLOOR LAMP (RESTAURANT). KNOLL: SIDE TABLES (POESIA SUITE). LOUIS POULSEN: LAMP. THROUGHOUT

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CRISTINA RUBINETTERIE: BATHROOM FITTINGS. GLASS: BATHTUBS.

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casa hoyos firm AG Studio site San Miguel de Allende, Mexico keys 16 recap A meticulously restored colonial-era villa was reinvented as a property that celebrates the best of Mexican design and regional artisanal crafts. Interior highlights include sunshine-bright glazed ceramics, mirror-tiled planters, woven tapestries, crisp black steelwork, and contours galore.

Best seat in the house to take in the colorful modernist surrounds: the lounge’s cocooning Calaca armchairs by Comite de Proyectos. casahoyos.mx

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sophia hotel firm Balbek Bureau site Kyiv, Ukraine

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keys 39 recap A century’s worth of paint layers stripped from the 1881 edifice revealed elegant yellow brickwork and period architectural details— characteristics the minimalist-modern interior scheme quietly harmonizes with via restrained neutral tones (offset with occasional pops of red), warm timber and brass accents, and contemporary Ukrainian artworks. balbek.com

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habita79 firms Giuliano Dell’uva; Gianluca Marangi keys 79 recap Built in the 1940’s for travelers trekking to the archeological site, this newly revamped MGallery hotel captures Pompeii’s energy of discovery while reinterpreting its ahead-of-its-time interior architecture; note the iron-base concrete columns, stucco wall panels (channeling grooves found on Pompeiian houses), and slabs of the same marble used to sculpt Roman fountains. More avantgarde are the Gio Ponti chairs, Luciano Romano photographs, and reproductions of 18th-century Giustiniani vases that likewise quote antiquity. giulianoandreadelluva.it; gianlucamarangiarchitetto.com 100

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The collection includes freestanding and modular seating and tables.

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the georgian firms BLVD Hospitality; Fettle keys 84 recap And, scene: After a sensitive renovation, a storied coastal property from 1933 marries Old Hollywood charm, global élan, and SoCal cool via such cinematic mise-en-scène as custom art deco chandeliers, original decorative reliefs, exaggerated furniture profiles, and exuberant stone flooring. Did we mention the transporting Pacific Ocean views? blvdhospitality.com; fettle-design.co.uk

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the largo firm Space Copenhagen site Porto, Portugal keys 18 recap Following a three-year restoration by architect Frederico Valsassina, five interconnected structures dating from the 15th through 19th centuries received a sensitive but thorough interior overhaul—one that maintained existing features— during its conversion into a hotel for Danish hospitality group Annassurra. Against the subdued tones of this stripped-back setting, replete with conserved elements like a five story–deep courtyard flanked by stone walls, Space Copenhagen juxtaposed stylized modern interpretations of Renaissance-era gestures including ceiling ornamentation and voluptuous headboards. spacecph.dk —Jen Renzi

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TIDAL A unique twist on modern decorative LED lighting. Generous proportions and meticulous attention to detail make this floating sculpture a must-have for any interior. Each free formed handcrafted piece lends slight variations in size and curvature.

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relax design Color and shape dialogue harmoniously in Vivy, a new line of washbasins by Ettore Ambrosio and Fabio Chianese of ZeTae, a Neapolitan studio. The freestanding pedestal and countertop sinks are made entirely of Luxolid—a proprietary Italian-made solid surfacing with a particularly smooth, uniform finish—and come with an optional contrasting tray. The collection, which bath specialist Relax Design launched last month at Cersaie, also presents four new gloss or matte colors for Luxolid: Vesuvius Red, Amalfi Yellow, Capri Blue, and Ischia Green. All told, the basins and trays come in two sizes and 16 hues, so you can mix and match to your heart’s content. relaxdesign.it

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products Sitges. standout The interior designer drew on his travels to Morocco, Portugal, and Spain for Moorish mosaics handmade in Virginia of honed basalt and natural stones like Rojo Alicante and Calacatta Monet marbles. newravenna.com 108

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product Fringe. standout The latest from the London-based Cypriot best known for his superlative lighting are floor and wall tiles in rectified porcelain engraved with parallel lines that can be filled with matching or contrasting grout. mutina.it

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product Trousdale. standout The founder of Los Angeles–based Arch-Interiors Design Group translates the beauty of architectural columns into a lavatory faucet’s fluted spout base and handles, available in 25 finishes. californiafaucets.com

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product AW/EX Pipe. standout A reissue of the Y2K classic from the Interior Design Hall of Famer, the wall-mount stainless mixer sports a red powder-coated handle resembling a blooming flower and now comes in new finishes. Through Fantini. fantini.it

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product Po-Mo. standout A small step at the base distinguishes the Californian talent’s round and oval ceramic washbasins, which were inspired by postmodernism (hence the name) and come in a range of glossy hues. simas.it

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product Frame. standout The founders of Valencian studio X Arquitectos devised a bathroom vanity with an extra-tall oak-veneered front that nearly conceals the basin behind it: The white sink lip peeps above the top. resigres.com

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product Castia. standout Stamped levers, precision machine knurling, and stacked connection points elevate this wide-spread brass faucet from the Studio McGee founder’s collection honoring the simple beauty of pipe fittings. kohler.com

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product Meta. standout A bold chevron cut from stained glass, the 17-inch-square wall tiles by the New York–based designer come in eight rainbow colorways and are suitable for showers, bathrooms, and backsplashes. tilebar.com OCT.23

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ann sacks New Jersey–based visual artist Lisa Hunt is known for her graphic collages and screen prints, but for her first tile collection, Asha, she revisited typography, which she studied at Pratt Institute. “I’ve always been inspired by the art deco period and the fonts of that time,” Hunt says. Eight years ago, she started designing a pattern with the word “love,” and it’s now one of her five stoneware relief tiles for Ann Sacks. Arrows Right, Arrows Left, and Arrows reimagine a 2018 triptych print in 3D. Pomegranate, a simplified graphic of the cut fruit, also reflects earlier artworks. “My past work has heightened how fundamental yet effective a stroke, shape, or symbol can be when expressing yourself,” she says. All of the tiles are handmade in Portland, Oregon, and come in six glazes based on colors Hunt frequently uses in her work. annsacks.com

“They reflect the mesmerizing effect of repeating pattern”

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“These fittings aim to be timeless, intuitive, and silent in their presence”

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The Italian studio Formafantasma has a remarkably varied portfolio. Partners Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi have designed exhibitions for Euroluce and the Venice Biennale, curated symposiums for Prada, and created textiles, tableware, and tiles. Behind these disparate projects is a focus on rigorous research and the environmental impact of the design industry.

That made the pair a good fit for Quadrodesign, a sustainabilityminded maker of stainless-steel kitchen and bath fittings, which tapped the studio for a minimalist collection. Subtle and timeless, FFQT comprises mixers, spouts, and showerheads, plus a sliding shower rail with optional shelf and mirror attachments.

Attach the freestanding shower column to a garden hose for an easy backyard setup; like all Quadrodesign fixtures, it’s suitable for outdoor use. quadrodesign.it

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decorative arts Graphic takes dominated Coverings, the ceramic-tile and natural-stone conference 1. Matisse Moonstone ceramic tile by Anthology Tile. anthologytile.com 2. Pigmento Amaranto indoor/outdoor porcelain wall/floor tiles and large slim-line slabs

inspired by hand-troweled cement resin by Ergon, through Emilceramica. emilgroup.com 3. Storagemilano’s Volume white-body porous single-fired wall tiles in extra-glossy finish

by Ceramica Bardelli. ceramicabardelli.com 4. Belgirate recycled-glass mosaic tile by Vidrepur. vidrepur.com 5. Ragtime ceramic mosaic tile by Sicis. sicis.com 6. Ferruccio Laviani’s Pigmenti carbon-neutral, ultra-thin, laminated porcelain stoneware slabs by Lea Ceramiche. leaceramiche.com 7. Riggiole Nero Mix porcelain tiles by Ceramica Fioranese. fioranese.it 8. Joyce Decor Optical porcelain stoneware tiles by Ascot. ascot.it

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cc-tapis Watch your step! The trippy Pipeline Freeform by Interior Design Hall of Famer Patricia Urquiola for the Milanese carpet-maker creates uneven ground. As with Urquiola’s earlier Slinkie collection, Pipeline translates her digital artworks into hand-knotted rugs made by artisans in Nepal. Connected tubes of Himalayan wool emerge from the surface of the rugs, curving and overlapping in wild squiggles. The two wall hangings are the shaggiest and most transfixing, with bands of hand-dyed pink, purple, blue, and green yarn swirling haphazardly together. In either application, they’ll turn a room joyfully off-kilter. cc-tapis.com

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“It breaks traditional rug boundaries and blurs the line between design and art”

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This spring, Verso filled its New York showroom with an array of common objects—cabinets, a desk, a console— that were far from ordinary. Their wavy edges, undulating doors, and candy colors of high-gloss lacquered MDF had a funhouse vibe that belied a serious intent: to start a conversation about the cultural implications of design. The site-specific exhibition, “No Flags,” also the collection name, was the brainchild of Enrica Cavarzan and Marco Zavagno, founders of Venetian studio Zaven. “We conceived it as a landscape of flags in the wind,” Cavarzan recalls. Usually symbols of nationalist identity, flags are here subverted to represent openness and possibility. “Design can be a tool to generate a critical discourse around notions of nation, identity, culture, and authenticity,” she adds. Encompassing furniture, rugs, and ceramic vases, the series is a positive vision of a new world. Through Verso. verso.nyc

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Expormim —— (212) 204-8572 usa@expormim.com www.expormim.com

Lapala hand-woven chair. Lievore Altherr Molina & Atrivm dining table. Manel Molina —— Photographer: Meritxell Arjalaguer ©

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The California maker of affordable, sustainable 3D-printed lights showcases four emerging global designers in its latest independent creator release. Berlin-based Simon Schmitz presents the sculptural Figra table lamp, a balance of contrasting geometries available in three colorways. Kids can do schoolwork in any corner of the house if they tote around Field Trip, a portable table light with a caddy at its base from the Baltimore- and Barcelona-based Joey Zeledón. BEBOP, a collective located in Seoul and San Francisco, dreamt up Squish, a bulb-shape table light as compact as it is playful.

From Brazil, Romulo Temigue offers the delectable Macaron, a table light with a 360-degree diffuser sandwiched between two halves. Like all Gantri creations, they’re made in San Francisco from a biodegradable sugarcane-based material. gantri.com

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coda awards pushing boundaries The 2023 CODAawards reveal there’s no limit to the success and beauty of combining commissioned art with spatial design For the 11th annual CODAawards: Collaboration of Design + Art, which celebrates spectacular projects that integrate site-specific art into interior, architectural, or public spaces, 18 judges considered a recordbreaking 411 entries from two dozen countries. The works represented over $54 million dollars in commissions. Among those tapped by CODAworx CEO Toni Sikes for the jury were Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen, Elkus Manfredi Architects principal Elizabeth Lowrey, Gensler Dallas principal and studio director Barry Hand, and various municipal cultural directors, collectors, and artists. Together, they selected winners across 11 categories, including a new collaboration award that recognizes the collective imagination of the professionals who work together on these projects. There were also two people’s choice winners, selected by popular vote. “The CODA­ awards provide us with a particularly remarkable series of projects where designers demolish the barrier between their own stock in trade and the craft practiced by artists,” Allen says. “When artists become active contributors to spaces, trying to distinguish where design ends and art begins is simply an exercise in futility.” Hear, hear! —Athena Waligore

Winner of the institutional category, Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany’s Pavilion Nomad, a 16-foot-high, anodized-aluminum sculpture, was presented by Louis Vuitton at the Palazzo Serbelloni during Milan Design Week.

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marine conservation artist Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee’s Aquarius Art Tunnel, a 240-footlong passageway at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston about the Gulf of Mexico that incorporates acrylic painted walls, lenticular lenses, custom carpet, an AR filter, and a soundtrack. Residential winner AD PACEM, a 50-by-85-foot mural, projection, and soundtrack by Faith XLVII, Inka Kendzia, and Stellamara animated the facade of an unoccupied 1880 single-family home during the arts festival BLINK Cincinnati. StudioKCA

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Clockwise from top left: Commercial winner Kigumi by Kengo Kuma & Associates is a sus­ pended installation of 4,200 wood-look-aluminum hollow slats resembling traditional inter­ locking Japanese joinery at the base of Alberni, the firm’s residential tower in Vancouver, Canada.

Both a people’s choice and the transportation winner, Matthew Mazzotta’s HOME is a 21-foottall, resin-and-fiberglass flamingo (named Phoebe after a contest with 65,000 entries) that greets travelers at Florida’s Tampa International Airport. The other people’s choice award went to

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collected 15 tons of plastic waste that have been assembled into the landscape category– winning Whale in Love, a seven-story entity that rises out of the Ai, a waterway in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, that’s referred to as Love River. Claiming the hospitality category is Infinity, Gordon Huether’s 60-foot-long Corten loop on the grounds of the Auberge Resort Collection’s 700-acre Stanly Ranch in Napa, California.

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in the terroir For Gurdau Winery in Czechia, Aleš Fiala embedded an arched form into the verdant Moravian landscape for producing varietals—and hosting the visitors who taste them text: edie cohen photography: boysplaynice

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Move over Napa, Bordeaux, and Tuscany. A new terroir, actually two, are experiencing a resurgence within the Czech Republic. Yes, you read that correctly. The zones, southern Moravia, where most of the country’s wine is produced, and Bohemia, both had a history of wine-making that fell off during the postwar era.

Revival came after 1989, and “The industry is experiencing significant growth accompanied by architectural expressions of the ambitions of new winemakers.” This from Czech architect Aleš Fiala, who’s well-versed on the topic. For starters, his namesake studio created a superlative establishment in Kurde ̌jov for Gurdau Winery—the label named after the village’s original German moniker, Gurdau—the structure a gob-smacking entity presumably like nothing wine aficionados had previously seen.

Simultaneously bold and stunning yet equally recessive, the building, at its most basic, is an arch of reinforced concrete and glass carved into the center of a landscape encompassing 17 acres of vineyards, the grapes ultimately transformed into Riesling, Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, and Merlot varietals. In a sense, the wine and winery’s launch and growth were entwined. Founded in 2012, Gurdau introduced its inaugural vintage in 2021, just a year prior to its building opening its doors following two years of construction.

“Intervening in the landscape through construction is always a significant responsibility,” Fiala introduces his initial concept. “Regardless of the size of the building, we aimed to connect it with the old, local, modest cellars, often just adorned ‘holes’ in the hillside, yet full of life and fulfilling all necessary functions.” Rooted in tradition though it may be, Fiala’s contemporary creation taking form as a gentle curve or “a hill between hills” is anything but a humble hole in the hill. It stands at over 13,000 square feet on two levels as the ne plus ultra of production and hospitality.

One level, below-grade with its own separate entrance for shipments and deliveries, is dedicated to Gurdau’s annual production of 39,000 bottles fermented and matured in stainless-steel tanks and oak barrels. Here, too, is a room for tasting archive wines, plus a pair of intimate apartments for overnight guests. The accommodations, entered from the heart of the winery, “are situated within two elliptical, reinforced-concrete tubes” opening onto terraces, Fiala explains.

The ground floor, though including some wine production, is primarily for customers. There’s no doubt about that with the blackened-steel bar standing front and center just past the entry. In the tasting area beyond, oenophiles can stimulate not only their palettes with samples of current production but also their minds, learning about soil profiles where the vines grow. Then, guests can transition through a pair of 130

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Previous spread: Gurdau Winery, in Kurdějov, Czech Republic, is composed of 17 acres of vineyards and a curvaceous, two-story structure by local firm Aleš Fiala that’s used for production, tastings, and lodging.

Opposite: The sustainably designed, 13,500-square-foot building is capped by a green roof.

Top, from left: The curvilinear profile mandated reinforced concrete as its primary construction material. The building offers an outdoor dining terrace. A tunnel-like passage leads to the shipments and delivery entrance. Bottom: A curving driveway accesses the ground-floor entry for visitors.

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“Minimal materials pervade as a consistent palette”

Top: The custom blackened-steel wine bar appoints the customer entry, while the dining room is behind the 13-foothigh, pivoting oak doors. Center: The vineyard was founded in 2012 and pro­ duces grapes for Riesling, Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, and Merlot varietals. Bottom: The concrete structure houses two 450-squarefoot apartments for overnight stays.

Opposite: Piero Lissoni’s Bubble Rock sofa and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s Palissade Cone table furnish the apart­ ment’s acacia deck.

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massive pivoting oak doors to the dining room. Up to 40 people can participate in dinners paired with Gurdau wines. The space spills over to an adjacent acacia terrace accessed via 33-foot-wide sliders, surrounded by vistas of the vineyards. Terraces, in fact, overflow from interiors throughout the project, including the apartments, “to bring a variety of natural moods and seasons to the experience of the space while further embedding the building in the terrain from which the wine comes,” Fiala waxes poetic.

“The interplay of views, landscape, greenery, and wine is the most cherished aspect of Gurdau.”

Minimal materials pervade as a consistent palette. “The nature of the project necessitates the use of concrete, reinforced for both structural and aesthetic reasons, in the aboveground arch,” Fiala continues.

“From a structural perspective, it’s not a shell but an arching ceiling slab that supports an arching green roof.” That, in essence, is really a third floor, one that’s crucial to the winery’s conception. Ultimately, it will become a completely green field, almost invisible as a building aspect, with a few of the surrounding area’s newly planted 150 shrubs and mature trees poking through openings in the roof. As for the rest, Fiala and his team chose local acacia, oak, and gray cement screed for wall and floor finishes. Visible interior structural elements are blackened steel and aluminum. Meanwhile, sparse contemporary furnishings by the likes of Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Piero Lissoni mix with the firm’s custom pieces.

Given Fiala’s immersion in the area and viniculture, we couldn’t help but ask the Brno native about his favorite wines and food pairings. “If I had to pick one, it’d be the 2021 Vesnice Kurdejov Grüner Veltliner, which harmonizes well with classic wiener schnitzel.” But more importantly, Fiala’s Gurdau tells a sustainability story. First, the winery’s very location within the vineyard minimizes the transport of raw materials

and workers. Passive energy considerations come from having most production zones located belowground, and customer areas open to the sun through large spans of glass. Along with thermally insulated triple glazing, oak slats in front of windows and an overhang of the curved roof ameliorate summer heat. Rainwater is collected and stored for irrigation. To which we add, na zdravi, or cheers!

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Opposite: Benjamin Baum’s Roii chairs populate the dining room and the terrace.

Top, from left: The dining room has views into an oak-framed barrel room fronted by glass. Wood in the apartments is oak, the bed’s mattress handmade. Barrels in an air-conditioned storage room are Slavonian oak. Bottom: Gurdau Winery simultaneously stands out and blends in with the Kurdějov landscape.

PROJECT TEAM TOMÁŠ BÍLEK; BRONISLAV BUREŠ; DALIBOR KLUSÁČEK: ALEŠ FIALA. ZDENĚK SENDLER: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. DANIELA HRADILOVÁ: INTERIOR DETAILS. MYLIGHT: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. NAVLÁČIL STAVEBNÍ FIRMA: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. CATEGORY: MEP. DŘEVOSTYL: MILLWORK. OMELKA: STEELWORK. ATELIER ORIGINÁL HOŘÁNEK: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOP. BENTGLASS: GLASSWORK. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT DEDON: CHAIRS (DINING TERRACES, DINING ROOM). HAY: TABLES (DINING TERRACES, DECK). LIVING DIVANI: SOFA (DECK).

VISPRING: BEDS (APARTMENTS). TON: TABLES (DINING ROOM). GEORG BECHTER LICHT: CEILING FIXTURES (STORAGE ROOM). THROUGHOUT BELEVEY: DECKING. POZVEK: BARRELS.

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The iconic silhouette of traditional wupeng gondolas inspired the undulating roofline at the Boatyard Hotel in Suzhou, China, by GOA and WJ Studio text: c.e. wallis photography: zhang xi

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For centuries, wupeng boats, traditional wood gondolas shaded by curved canvas or bamboo-mat awnings, have pop­ ulated the rivers and canals of Jiangnan, a seaboard region in northeastern China famed for its picturesque water towns.

Located on the outskirts of one of them—the ancient and culturally important city of Suzhou—the new Boatyard Hotel

by GOA draws on the wupeng’s distinctive silhouette, which is echoed by the two-story building’s showstopping roofline, an undulating sea of conical vaults that suggests a flotilla of the dark-canopied craft jostling for position at a wharf.

The hotel, on Zhongjiadang lake, and its slightly older but equally striking neighbor—the Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove, a cluster of pavilions, each crowned with a steeplelike pyramid—are part of a rural revitalization scheme led by GOA, which stands for Group of Architects, centered on Shanwan village and its environs. “This development is about more than just architectural construction,” firm principal and lead architect on the project Binxin Chen notes. “Today, urbanization has led to the abandonment of rural areas as individuals migrate to cities, resulting in deserted villages with inadequate infrastructure and sluggish growth.” In fact, with their quaint cobblestone streets, well-preserved vernacular architecture, and pleasure craft–ready waterways, these ancient hamlets have become big tourist magnets, an economic lifeline Shanwan’s ongoing revitalization plan seeks to tap.

The Boatyard’s steel-frame roof vaults—19 total, in various sizes—are clad in aluminum paneling, blackened on the topside to resemble wupeng awnings but with a wood grain–film finish on the underside, so that the hotel’s arched ceilings evoke rows of inverted boat shells. “The design magnifies, optimizes, and repeats the curves of the hull,” says Zhile Hu, founder and principal of WJ Studio, which conceived the 13,000-square-foot, 13-key boutique property’s interiors. “Compared to a flat roof, the arches create a more generous and visually expanded space,” he explains, adding that by extending the wood-effect ceiling panels beyond the window line to the clad the deep eaves, the continuity between interior and exterior space is emphasized— a key theme of his conception that is further enhanced by a southern facade of floor-to-ceiling windows offering an up-close panorama of the lake.

Previous spread: A roiling sea of cone vaults forms the roof of the Boatyard Hotel in Suzhou, China, a 13-key boutique property on Zhongjiadang lake by GOA and WJ Studio, stage two in a rural revitalization scheme that includes the multi­ pyramid restaurant next door.

Opposite top: A café occupies the project’s only multivault space, which faces the lake. Opposite bottom: The room is outfitted with custom mid century–style furniture and wooden surfaces, including the floor, built-ins, and ceiling; photo­ graphy: Zhu Hai. Top, from left: A wall of cubbyhole shelving, which separates the café from a hall­ way leading to guest rooms, allows daylight through. A traditional wupeng boat floats next to a concrete footbridge in the largest cone vault, which houses the reception area. Bottom, from left: A sculptural acrylic installation brings a pop of color to the reception desk, both custom; photography: Zhu Hai. The wood counter is screened by a boxy canopy, which partitions the entry from the lobby.

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Top: In a guest room, custom wood-and-canvas screens join a stacked-stone feature wall and polished concrete flooring; photography: Zhu Hai. Center: The café is slightly sunken so that seated guests feel on a level with the lake. Bottom: Subdued colors, natural textures, and clean forms define a ground-floor guest room, where all furnishings are custom; photography: Zhu Hai. Opposite: The lobby culminates in an arched window wall and a custom stainless-steel trestle bench from which to contemplate the view of a tree-studded islet just off the lakeshore.

“The site is very typical of the Jiangnan region,” Hu notes, “uninterrupted stretches of water, untouched fields, misty villages, and the unique experiences they bring together.” He likes to quote Louis Sullivan’s precept that proper architecture grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of its environment, which was the program he and his team followed. “The locality itself sparked the whole design,” he continues. “The project connects the indoors and outdoors, combining them to the point where the surrounding scenery becomes a part of the hotel itself.”

What this means in practice is evident right from the Boatyard’s reception area. A continuous space housed under a single cone vault—the largest on the property, rising to a height of 18 feet and stretching from the front door all the way to the lakefront facade—it inaugurates a spatial and experiential sequence that evokes different physical and cultural aspects of the encompassing landscape. To reach reception, guests cross a low arched footbridge next to a narrow canal-like pool in which a real wupeng is moored. A large open skylight directly above the gondola not only floods the space with natural light but also allows rain to fall onto the tranquil tableau, introducing the sounds and rhythms of nature when droplets pitter-patter on the boat’s awning.

Framed by a hefty rectangular canopy, the reception desk acts as a low partition separating the entry and pool zone from the lobby, a serene spot next to a soaring arched window wall framing the view of a tiny tree-dotted islet just off the lakeshore. Offering a perch from which to contemplate the scene, a custom stainless-steel trestle bench etched with a water pattern appears to float above an inky rectangle of polished marble floor tile like a silver boat floating on a calm, dark sea. “The black mirror marble continues the water into the interior,”

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“The project connects indoors and outdoors to the point where the surrounding scenery becomes part of the hotel itself”

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Top, from left: A staircase is cocooned in woodpaneled walls and ceiling. The stair landing enjoys its own window wall and trestle bench.

Bottom, from left: A guest room courtyard has a plunge pool; photography: Zhu Hai. Leafless trees on the islet create a graphic tableau at sunset.

Opposite top: GOA also designed the neigh­ boring multisteeple Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove. Opposite bottom: On the second floor, each vault accommodates its own guest room, which overlooks the café rooftop.

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Hu suggests, “enhancing the connection and integration with the natural landscape.”

Other materials in the Boatyard’s limited palette do similar service: Acres of glass create a sense of transparency, helping dissolve the physical and psychological barriers between the hotel’s interiors and the land; blond wood or wood-grain finishes for millwork, built-ins, walls, ceilings, and some floors bring the warmth and texture of the rural world with them, as do the stacked-stone walls featured in some areas; and a subdued color spectrum—blues, grays, creams, browns, and blacks—reflects the subtle organic hues of forest, field, and stream.

The lobby divides the hotel into two unequal portions: One side accommodates the café—a long, multivault space that’s slightly sunken to seem almost level with the lake—and eight guest rooms, four on the ground floor, four above; the other side houses the hotel office and another five guest rooms across two levels. Each of the upper-story rooms occupies its own cone vault, as does each of the three staircases leading to them. The stairwell ceilings and walls are paneled in wood, creating an enveloping cocoon that culminates in a spectacular landing with an arched window wall facing not the lake to the south but a grove of metasequoia trees to the north for which the neighboring restaurant is named. At the Boatyard, the natural and the manmade really do seem to be in eloquent communication.

PROJECT TEAM LIJIE YE; TIANYU LIU; QI SHI: GOA. YANG XI; YANG LILIEN; ZHOU SHUYI; YE ZI: WJ STUDIO. WSP: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. SHANGHAI ZHONGTIAN ENGINEERING CONSULTING CO.: CURTAIN WALLS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, MEP. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT EASTCO LIGHTING DESIGN: TRACK LIGHTING, COVE LIGHTING (CAFÉ). THROUGHOUT HENAMEI ALUMINUM: ROOF PANELS. CSG: ARCHITECTURAL GLASS. GUO YANFANG STONE MATERIALS: STONE. UGAN CONCEPT: WOOD FLOORING. HYUNDAI L&C; LG HAUSYS: WOOD-GRAIN FILM.

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Nestled amid the trees in a small surf town, Nico Sayulita by Hybrid and Palma is part boutique hotel, part rentable villa, and thoroughly linked to its Mexican site

welcome to the jungle

text: elizabeth fazzare photography: luis díaz díaz

Scouting for land with a local real estate agent in the small Mexican surf town of Sayulita, Robert Humble got an instant education in jungle topography. “We quickly realized that flat, level lots are pretty unattainable,” recalls the architect, who’s also founding partner and design principal of Hybrid, a multidisciplinary Seattle studio that designs, builds, and develops efficient, contemporary, contextually appropriate work that cultivates community throughout the West Coast and Canada. After touring a half dozen sloping sites surrounded by thick rainforest, he and his wife Nicole Johnson returned to the first—equally steep but whose lowest point from its residential street was met by a lush, undeveloped ravine.

Its natural configuration assured an appealing sense of privacy. Humble’s team at Hybrid tried a few massing concepts, and the couple was sold on the location for Nico Sayulita, their and the firm’s first hospitality endeavor—and project—in Mexico, its moniker derived from Johnson’s nickname.

A series of five suites connected by a common party deck and an accessible rooftop, the 3,000-square-foot Nico is conceived to take advantage of the natural atmosphere provided by its forested site. “The empty spaces are the heart of the project,” says architect Ilse Cárdenas, coprincipal of Mexico City studio Palma, which collaborated with Hybrid on the modular system of concrete linear cubes that have been strategically stacked to descend the hill. “Everything is porous, and we closed as little as we could.” Each side of the volumes is either glazed, solid masonry, or left open to the elements, depending on purpose. The rooms feature walls of operable windows for protection from rain but also the ability to cross-ventilate, while the central stairwell is exposed to appreciate surrounding vistas but covered by a roof for comfort and safety when climbing between levels.

“What was important to me,” Humble continues, “is that Nico represent the architec­ tural heritage and built typology of Mexico, which, in a lot of cases, is concrete columns, slabs, and infill,” that create a contemporary style with roots in Mexican modernism.

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Previous spread: On the lowest level of Nico Sayulita, a ground-up, fivekey Mexico property by Hybrid and Palma that mixes the qualities of a boutique hotel with those of a rentable private villa, the bedroom of the 560-square-foot Jungle suite features a custom soaking tub and floor made of local bricks; photography: Alex Herbig.

Opposite top: The project’s 3,000 square feet are contained in a stacked composition of unfinished-concrete linear cubes, with sides open or closed to form suites, terraces, or amenities spaces. Opposite bottom: Accent colors of custom elements on the property’s social level are inspired by nature, such as the ceramic tiles lining the lap pool and the earthen stucco covering a gangway-accessed bathroom.

Top, from left: A powder room’s stucco wall stain and concrete sink, both custom, were hand-colored and mixed on-site. A central cement staircase climbs four of the building’s five stories, providing all suites access to the pool deck, kitchen, and rooftop with jacuzzi. Bottom: Cumaru decking runs the length of the 40-foot lap pool.

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This gridded building system also gave him the flexibility to continue tweaking the hospitality concept long into the design phases. What it became is something between a boutique hotel and a rentable private villa: Visitors can book a single suite, a few, or all five, and they share the rooftop with jacuzzi as well as the lap pool and chef’s kitchen, located on an open-air “social level surrounded by sunlight, foliage, and amazing views,” Cárdenas describes. Rather than a full staff, a concierge team provides a meet-and-greet and offers a host of personalized activities—from a private chef and on-site yoga class to local excursions. “It’s a guest experience that offers both the autonomy or privacy of an Airbnb with all the services of a boutique hotel,” explains Humble, who is exploring future Nico hotels in Morocco, Thailand, and elsewhere in Mexico.

Walking distance from both the town and the beach, the property is in a low-scale neighborhood, and its profile remains respectful of that density. From the street, the building appears just two stories tall. However, once inside the gate, the structure is built three additional levels down into the jungle, each height providing a unique experience in nature for guests. At the lowest story is the most private abode. Nestled in the tree canopy, this 560-square-foot suite features a romantic circular soaking tub, flooring of local brick, and three private terraces built around existing tree trunks. Each room has a different layout, arranged to take advantage of their specific vistas, sunlight throughout the day, and ocean breezes, though all contain their own bathroom, a wet bar in blackened steel, and a sitting area, sometimes located inside, sometimes outside on terraces that seem to float among the foliage.

Nature is the focus of Nico Sayulita, and the interiors let the environment take center stage.

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Left: Beneath the Horizon suite’s commissioned piece by local artist Diego Hernández Beauroyre are Roberto Michelsen’s custom bed, side tables, and lamp; all the hotel’s furnishings were sourced in Mexico; photography: Alex Herbig. Above, from left: In the Papelillo suite, a side table by Stown Design stands between armchairs by Anna Cuadra; photography: Alex Herbig. On the rooftop, where concrete beams frame views of the Pacific Ocean, vintage Verner Panton chairs line Michelsen’s Zig Zag dining table.

Right: The Jungle suite’s floor-toceiling steel-framed glass doors were fabricated in Mexico City.

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handcrafted in Mexico, many custom-made. “Though we sought restraint, a lot of thought was put into each piece,” Cárdenas says. The Palma team engaged a group of Mexico City–based designers including Roberto Michelsen to create bespoke beds, side tables, and chairs, all of which use rounded geometric forms to complement the complex’s stark architectural expression. A few furniture pieces provide a pop of earthen color, like a red terrazzo drinks table

by Guadalajara-based En.concreto and a striped textile on the cushions of a pair of armchairs by Zapopan-based Stown Design, but most maintain their natural patinas. A blackand-white abstract artwork by Diego Hernández Beauroyre hangs above each bed. “Bringing in these works makes the project feel Mexican and contemporary without going the Frida Kahlo route,” Cárdenas adds, referencing the tendency toward clichéd depictions of the infamous Mexican painter that travelers can find in other hotels across the country.

In Nico’s social spaces, material colors were inspired by the Pacific Ocean views. A Guadalajaran fabricator created the custom sky-blue tiles that line the pools. A stucco-clad bathroom off the party deck wears a lightly pink-brown hue.

“The feeling we’re looking to convey is informality,” says Humble, who also hired Mexico City studio Trama to create the hospitality brand’s retro-inspired graphic design. “Nothing is precious or pretentious.” In the laid-back beach town of Sayulita, it’s truly of the place.

PROJECT TEAM ALEX HERBIG; SCOTT GOODNER: HYBRID. REGINA DE HOYOS; DIEGO ESCAMILLA; JUAN LUIS RIVERA; LUISA RIZO; CONSTANZA PONCE DE LEÓN; JOSUÉ GRANADOS; NIA JORQUERA; JOSÉ MENDÉZ: PALMA. PAAR TALLER: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. TRAMA: CUSTOM PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT TAPLONG: TUB FITTINGS (JUNGLE). INBLOCK: BRICKS. LA LAGUNA: TILE (POOL). STOWN DESIGN: LOUNGE CHAIRS (HORIZON), COFFEE TABLE (PAPELILLO). ANNA CUADRA HOME ACCENTS: ARMCHAIRS (PAPELILLO). THROUGH DECADA: CHAIRS (ROOFTOP), BENCH (PAPELILLO), GREEN CHAIRS, TABLE (POOL), DAYBED (HORIZON). THROUGHOUT EN.CONCRETO: TABLES. GRUPO URREA: SINK FITTINGS. WESTINGHOUSE: CEILING FANS. CEMEX: CONCRETE. PERDURA: WALL COATING. GRUPO ARGOS: DECKING.

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JAMES EWING

GRAPHICS. ABM ACERO: STEELWORK. ADRIÁN RAMÍREZ SILLER: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

Opposite top: A table by En.concreto furnishes the pool-deck level, an informal gathering place for visitors to swim, socialize, and dine on a meal made in the custom stainless-steel kitchen, either prepared themselves or by a private chef. Opposite bottom: The Papelillo and all suites have operable windows to allow visitors to control sunlight, air, and vistas to the surrounding rainforest; the stainless-steel cabinetry is custom by Hybrid and Palma; photography: Alex Herbig.

Top, from left: The pool’s custom tiles were made in the Jaliscan capital of Guadalajara. The Jungle suite’s tub is 6 feet in diameter. Bottom: The Horizon and all suites have custom blackened-steel wet bars; the terrazzo side and concrete dining tables are by En.concreto and the daybed is custom; photography: Alex Herbig.

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colors of the canyon Gluckman Tang returns to Mii amo in Sedona, Arizona, this time with EDG to renovate and expand the spa resort— and further connect it to the spectacular red-rock surrounds text: monica khemsurov photography: douglas friedman

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Opposite top: Sergey Gravchikov chairs face another custom mural in the coffee shop. Opposite bottom: A custom con­crete sink serves the men’s bathroom.

Above: Custom velvet-upholstered chairs face a concrete-plastered structural column, on which little stainless-steel airplane silhouettes are mounted and backlit.

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Previous spread: At Mii amo, a resort spa in Sedona, Arizona, originally designed in 2001 by Gluckman Tang Architects and recently renovated and enlarged by the firm and EDG Interior Architecture + Design, an indoor pool has been transformed into a living room, with custom sunken seating surrounded by Stalattite onyx.

Opposite top: The seating, upholstered in subtly varying colors, just like those of the nearby canyons, is backed by a James Turrell-esque cutout in the stucco wall that’s illuminated from behind by shifting natural light.

Opposite bottom: The other end of the living room has a woodburning fireplace to be admired from either semiprivate windowed banquettes for solitude or a cluster of custom lounge chairs for togetherness; the existing Douglas fir plywood ceiling was refinished by GTA. Top, from left: The color of the stucco and plaster of the spa’s original exterior architecture mirrors those of Sedona’s rocks and sky. A local artisan crafted the host stand at the entrance to Hummingbird, the property’s new restaurant, of alder. Bottom: White oak backs the banquettes in the restaurant’s dining room, which EDG outfitted with custom tables and Patricia Urquiola’s Nuez chairs.

The Arizona desert town of Sedona is sometimes referred to as the New Age Capital. It’s a longtime mecca for yogis and spiritual seekers, thanks in part to its otherworldly landscape of striated red-rock formations. That’s why Enchanted Group, the Scottsdale-based resort-management company, decided to open Mii amo—one of the country’s first destination spas—there in 2001, and why Gluckman Tang Architects decided to put its concept for the project entirely in the service of one goal: highlighting Sedona’s beauty. “It’s so awe-inspiring and transporting,” says architect Dana Tang, who’s now a partner at GTA but had only been with the firm three years when she first began work on Mii amo. “Back then, we looked to create a building that didn’t compete with that, that prioritized a sense of place in the canyon—really a frame for a visitor’s experience of the natural surroundings.” The approach paid off, with Mii amo becoming known as one of the top spas in the world. But 20 years of runaway success ultimately left the 16-key property in serious need of expansion and updating. This past February, it reopened after a two-year, $40 million renovation, led by GTA, with FF&E

by EDG Interior Architecture + Design.

While the renovation expanded the resort’s footprint by more than 70 percent, which includes the addition of seven more guest rooms— housed in three freestanding casitas—and an expanded spa building that now features a fitness wing, bringing the total square footage to 57,000, both firms hewed closely to the spirit of the existing building, which was meant to be as spare and reductive as possible. Its exterior was imagined as a minimal take on the local pueblo revival style, with red stucco walls echoing the rich hues of the canyon and a striking cylindrical element painted blue to mirror the sky. (In fact, Tang required members of her team, some who began designing the original Mii amo 25 years ago, to mountain-bike and hike the Sedona trails together to kick off the renovation project.)

Inside, she focused on using strategically placed glass walls to maximize views, and adobe brick, river-rock floors, and local woods to blend in with those views. “The style was in the background,” EDG president and CEO Jennifer Johanson begins. “It wasn’t the kind of place you’d walk into and think, Oh wow, that’s an amazing interior. It’s more like you really feel the power of this place.” That feeling was heightened

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and colonnaded fin walls employed to showcase the desert sun as it changed throughout the day, or across seasons.

Even spaces that received the most dramatic overhauls in Mii amo’s makeover stay true to those objectives. In the property’s central living room—above a new onyx-framed, dusky rose– upholstered conversation pit retrofitted into the footprint of a former indoor pool—GTA created a moon-shaped wall cutout that’s illuminated from behind by shifting natural light, somewhere between an artwork and a primitive timepiece. “The circle also symbolizes completeness and wholeness,” Tang notes. The spa’s restaurant, now called Hummingbird, was enlarged, opened up to the canyon views via a new glass expanse, and updated with canted walls and a coffered wooden ceiling that creates a more interesting and dimensional interplay with the light. And in the added and renovated guest rooms, bathtubs are now set beneath huge picture windows and surrounded by textured, fluted porcelain tile that also recurs in the revamped spa areas. “You’re in this rugged landscape, so having smooth tile didn’t seem quite right,” Tang adds. “The porcelain’s texture references the way the water carves the rocks in the canyon.” Even the movement and contemplation rooms are understated spaces oriented toward floor-to-ceiling views, first of a new relaxation garden filled with native plantings, and then of the canyon beyond.

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Left: The 23 guest rooms include seven new casitas with custom bed throws by Cheyenne artist Jordan Ann Craig, wool wall art

by Niki Litts, traditional adobe kiva fireplaces, and stump tables carved from local eucalyptus logs.

Top, from left: Renovated bath­ rooms have honed-quartzite vani­ ties and picture windows that look out to private gardens. EDG outfitted a suite’s living room with custom, mostly wooden furniture and fiber art by Bharti Trivedi. Bottom: Marine-grade Omer chairs and table furnish a guest-room balcony.

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Top, from left: A highlight of Mii amo’s original building is the crystal grotto, a meditative room with a dirt floor, alder banquette, and a light-shifting ceiling portal. GTA’s refurbishment of the main spa entailed removing the front wall of each sauna and replacing with glass to let in more light. Bottom: The new fitness wing includes a movement room with a 10-foot-high glass wall that affords views of the Kachina Woman rock formation.

Opposite top: An alder portal leads from the crystal grotto to original river-rock terrazzo flooring and a new concentriccircle wall work by artist Katie Sandridge that recreates the canyon’s stones in hand-shaped clay. Opposite bottom: Also new is the relaxation room, featuring a wool rug and chenille-upholstered lounge chairs and ottomans, all custom by EDG.

When it came to furnishing all those spaces, EDG was likewise tasked with keeping everything as calming and essential as possible, from the goat-hair and wool carpets to the natural artifacts appointing the guest rooms. The repetition of identical chairs in the living and contemplation rooms further lessens visual noise, reminding spa-goers that, Johanson says, “They’re united in this journey, even though it’s individual.” Nearly all the furniture throughout is custom, by the way, save for EDG’s selection of Patricia Urquiola chairs in the restaurant and casita blankets by a Cheyenne artist.

At the start of the project, Johanson and her team harvested a set of natural material samples directly from the canyon to develop their palette around, and, with GTA, often chose final textiles and paint colors on-site, against the backdrop of both the building and its surroundings. Johanson says they had to practice an unusual amount of restraint for the project, abandoning their typically more layered approach and continuously paring back their designs to cede to the landscape as the star of the show. “It was a seesaw where we’d do something and then say, ‘No, that’s too far, let’s go back,’” she recalls. “But it was also such a rewarding challenge to try to make the simplest outcome so elegant and so appropriate for this location.

When you’re in this place you really do feel like you’re one with it. It’s magical.”

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Atelier Lionel Jadot organizes dozens of mostly Belgian artisanal studios for the interiors of Mix Brussels, a massive hospitality enterpise occupying a landmarked 20th-century building

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Too often these days, hip luxury hotels offer guests stylish, but predictable, Instagram-ready interiors. What’s saved on the budget by relying on catalogue-selected furnishings made in China is lost when two months later they break. Or so argued Lionel Jadot when pitching his interiors concept for Mix Brussels, a new 250,000-square-foot hospitality project, comprising a 180-room hotel, three restaurants, a food market, coworking space, gym, and an auditorium.

Jadot’s eponymous atelier won the competition to outfit the entire property, which occupies six floors in the 12-story, former headquarters of the Royale Belge insurance company, a beloved 1970 functionalist landmark by the Belgian architect René Stapels and his French partner Pierre Dufau.

Located in a 20-acre suburban park with an ornamental lake, the building comprises a twostory concrete base, an intermediate floor, and a cruciform nine-story tower, its bronze-glass curtain walls enveloped by an exposed load-bearing Corten superstructure—a pioneering use of the weathering steel in Europe. In 2018, the protected 420,000-square-foot building was acquired by a consortium, which assigned its transformation into a mixed-use facility to London-based Caruso St John Architects in collaboration with Antwerp-based Bovenbouw Architectuur and Brussels practice DDS+. Beyond upgrading the signature bronze glazing to meet current codes, the architects did as little as possible to the historic structure, making only one significant intervention: a new circular lobby with a sweeping curved staircase. The 70-foot-diameter, three-story space not only serves as common access point for Mix and the building’s other tenants but also mirrors the circular form of the ground-floor auditorium, its rounded exterior clad in copper panels.

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Previous spread: Atelier Lionel Jadot outfitted one of the 180 guest rooms at the hotel in Mix Brussels—a hospitality entity inside the landmarked former Royale Belge insurance company building—with a pendant globe by designer Roxane Lahidji, among the roster of 51 Belgium-based artisanal studios Lionel Jadot oversaw for the 250,000-square-foot project; photography: Amber Vanbossel.

Top: The 1970 building was renovated by three firms, Bovenbouw Architectuur, DDS+, and Caruso St John Architects, the latter responsible for the sweeping curved staircase in the new three-story circular lobby. Bottom, from left: On the lobby’s top level, more of Lahidji’s marbleized-salt globes overlook chairs by Jadot and Chair Doctor, with woven-leather seats by Charles Schambourg. On the ground floor, a tapestry by KRJST Studio backdrops Jadot’s Uruk sofa and Pierre Coddens’s table.

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Top: Another lobby seating group includes a Jadot sofa, Francois Coppens slipper chairs, and a second tapestry by KRJST. Bottom: The studio collaborated with another textile atelier, Home Sails, on the digitally printed silk-and-cotton curtains in a guest room, where a pair of nightlights by Studio Elementaires flank a circular Solaire mirror by Jonas Moënne.

Opposite top, from left: A detail of a papier-mâché bas relief by Papier Boulette. The Royale Belge building’s original exposed Corten superstructure. The mottled ceramic-and-glass back of a Moënne mirror. Opposite center, from left: KRJST’s curtains behind a Lahidji pendant in a guest room. Omar Griouat’s sculptural mural beside the swimming pool.

Maison Jonckers’s billowing maillechort reception desk. Opposite bottom, from left: The papier-mâché reliefs cladding a meeting room. Pillows by Simples on a guest room’s couch by Custom Cut. Codden’s lamp on Jadot’s meeting-area check-in counter.

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When Jadot came to work on the Mix interiors, he was immediately captivated by the “honesty” of the structure’s form-follows-function architecture. “All the historical interventions are like sculpture, with the function inside,” he notes, citing the auditorium as a case in point. He imagined a decorative program in conversation with the existing building—respectful but not beholden to it. “I was looking to act big and make sculptures to house the kitchen, offices, meeting rooms,” he says. He also wanted the interior to serve as “a communications tool” to promote contemporary Belgian design. So, rather than conceive everything himself, Jadot collaborated with Zaventem Ateliers, a creative community he founded in 2018 comprising 24 artists and designers—weavers, woodworkers, metalsmiths, sculptors—that share studio space with him in an old brick paper mill outside Brussels. They, along with 21 other local firms, would make everything, from coat hooks and table lamps to dining chairs and the reception desk, turning Mix into what he calls “the largest collectibledesign showroom in Belgium.”

The high-profile project, which took two years to complete, has been a game changer for the Zaventem group. Take Roxane Lahidji, a young designer who specializes in the development and application of salt as an ecological material. In a workshop-expanding commission, she produced more than 200 light fixtures with sculptural shades fashioned from the mineral mixed with natural resins and pigments for a marbleized effect. Siblings Alexandra and Grégoire Jonckers work in the tradition of their renowned sculptor father, Armand Jonckers, creating sensuously organic pieces of furniture out of bronze, clay, and resin. They used maillechort—an alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc—to forge the reception desk, a stunning assemblage of billowing forms that echoes the voluptuous curves of the auditorium.

Experimental textile artists Erika Schillebeeckx and Justine de Moriamé of KRJST Studio create boldly baroque modern tapestries and fabrics that combine traditional weaving techniques with digital printing and generative algorithms. Here, they conceived the patterns printed on the silk-and-cotton curtains in the restaurant and guest rooms, which were then produced in collaboration with fellow Zaventem textile studio Home Sails. The firms also worked together on a pair of large-scale lobby tapestries that, thanks to embedded sensors, are interactive, producing different lighting effects in response to the movement of guests.

Among the non-Zaventem creatives Jadot commissioned were the adventurous papier-mâché artists Maud Bocquet and Zélie Boulestreau of Papier Bouelettes, which makes large-scale bas-reliefs

Top: In the gym, the cast-concrete mural by Griouat, a Belgian-Moroccan artist, runs the full length of the pool. Bottom, from left: Japanese-style tatami mats line the second-floor yoga studio floor; the pre-cast concrete coffers are original to the 1970 building by architects René Stapels and Pierre Dufau. A Data stool by Thomas Serruys and a pedestal table by Coddens outfit a guest room, which has uninterrupted views of the Sonian Forest.

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from recycled paper. The duo mixed rainwater with brown-cardboard waste onsite to make pulp that they hand-sculpted into monumental, botanically themed wall reliefs fronting two meeting rooms. And, of course, Jadot designed some major elements himself, including the lobby’s massive neo-brutalist concrete fireplace, its pair of gleaming brass flues rising to the ceiling. A glittering sculpture of his devising—jewel-tone scraps of crystal, recovered from venerable Belgian glassmaker Val Saint Lambert and set in a metal frame—sits in the grate as a kind of technicolor substitute for a conventional fire.

“It was crazy,” Jadot says of keeping the project on track. “My team was super afraid. But for me, it was a big adventure. I don’t get stressed.” Jadot is an instinctual talent who feels at ease amidst uncertainty. “My creative process is totally chaotic,” he admits. “I knew from the beginning that the carpet in the hotel would be olive green, and that aluminum, brass, and steel would play leading roles.” Why? “It was part of the energy I got from the building.”

Conceptualization began on the smallest scale, however, with sketches of bespoke knobs for the guest rooms. Cast in bronze by Liège-based foundry Woit, the hardware is embossed with an outline of the cruciform building, almost like a benediction. Or, as Jadot puts it, “I knew it would give me an atmosphere that nobody had ever seen before.”

PROJECT TEAM CRISTINA GUSANO; PIERROT DECONINCK; GUILLAUME THILLY; JULIETTE GEERAERT; JULIETTE MOYERSOEN; JULIEN CROENEN; LOUISE MICHIELS: ATELIER LIONEL JADOT. METZGER ET ASSOCIÉS ARCHITECTURE: HERITAGE ARCHITECT. ATELIER EOLE PAYSAGISTES: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. ELLYPS NV: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. RVR STUDIEBUREAU VAN REETH: SERVICES ENGINEER.

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See page 178 for Tan90°, a café in Shenzhen, China, by AD Architecture. Photography: Ouyang Yun.

Seven restaurants across three continents embrace organic forms and global palettes, serving up a menu of aesthetic umami

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“We were blessed with beautifully restored, original architectural features”

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Run for the Hills project Audrey Green and Larry’s Bar, London. standout A restoration project inside the National Portrait Gallery revealed original mosaic flooring, which now shines alongside the café’s new walnut and veined-marble counters, while a glazed atrium illuminates the downstairs cocktail lounge’s custom velvet- and leather-upholstered seating; photography from the museum’s collection graces all walls. photography Katya de Grunwald.

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“There’s a wavelike motion to the interiors as guests walk through”

MariaGroup project Meat the Fish, London. standout The three zones of this land- and sea-themed establishment are unified by an olive ash ceiling and custom black-and-white encaustic floor tiles, but are differentiated by such commissioned artworks as Souraya Haddad’s tentacle-esque ceramic bas-relief around the fireplace and a five-panel tapestry by Bokja, a studio in Beirut, where the MTF concept originated. photography Michael Sinclair.

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Studio Paolo Ferrari project Daphne, Toronto. standout Adjacent to the open kitchen, the main dining room’s 14-foot-high plaster arches uplit by custom sconces, marble flooring, and tailored striped sofas, and the bar’s wallcovering—an abstract arboreal pattern that was scanned in high resolution, scaled up, and printed on linen—yield a grottolike, elevated Canadian take on the classic American bistro. photography Joel Esposito.

“It fuses the nostalgia of New England prep with wonder and eccentricity”

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Karim Rashid project Raionul de Peş te, Bucharest, Romania. standout The aquatic hues and fluid shapes of marine life inspired the setting of this gourmet seafood restaurant, where seating is organized into intimate coves, LEDs spotlight soybean-derived resin tiles, and gypsum walls with wave motifs meet jellyfish-reminiscent pendant fixtures, all customized by the Interior Design Hall of Fame member so diners feel as if they’re underwater. photography Sebastian Stan.

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“Materials are locally sourced, durable, easy to maintain, and rich—without being precious”

“The result is a marriage of sensual minimalism and human experience”

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“The materials we selected are closely tied to the marine character”

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Zooco Estudio project La Maruca de López de Hoyos, Madrid. standout With teak-plank flooring sealed in black polymer joint (the same used on ship decks), bands of white polished cement punctuated by portholes, and doorways referencing horseshoe arches, the local firm brings seafaring vibes to the 6,000-square-foot Cantabrian eatery in Spain’s landlocked capital. photography David Zarzoso.

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Atelier Gulla Jonsdottir project Palmilla Cocina y Tequila, Newport Beach, California. standout Although the cuisine is Mexican, an appealing farrago of brutalist, Mayan, and European notes blend at this SoCal spot, from the freeform white concrete facade to the interior terra-cotta finishes. LED-integrated niches do, however, evoke Aztec geometry, and the custom rattan pendant fixtures recall Tulum palapas. photography Art Gray.

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“It’s like a microcosm of Los Cabos on Balboa Island” “Materials are locally sourced, durable, easy to maintain, and rich—without being precious”

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AD Architecture project Tan90°, Shenzhen, China. standout Derived from stalactite and neuron forms and psychedelic imagery, the elastic-looking glass fiber-reinforced gypsum permeating the 2,000-square-foot daytime café/nighttime whiskey bar alters perspectives as guests, often the high-end clientele that frequents the OCT-Loft Creative Culture Park neighborhood, move through. photography Ouyang Yun.

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“Fragmented images constantly emerge and fade, creating visuals full of surprises”

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Impression, Sunrise has been credited with inspiring the name of the impressionist movement. Now, more than a century later, that Claude Monet painting from 1872 lends its title to a temporary exhibition of digital art at a 125-key island resort in Quintana Roo, Mexico, fittingly called Impression Isla Mujeres by Secrets. The 2023 “Impression, Sunrise” is a selection of five works by Andrés Reisinger, an Argentinian digital artist, designer, and ambassador for the hotel.

“Back in the 19th century, Monet’s style was not appreciated because it looked sketchlike or unfinished,” Reisinger says of impressionism. “But this project feels a lot like that style, and that’s a cool thing.” Reisinger himself is savvy in cool. Not only do his ethereal NFT artworks openly embrace the use of AI but his Reisinger Studio also designed Moooi’s viral Hortensia chair. At Impression Isla Mujeres, his digital pieces such as The Wither, a dreamlike scene depicting an abstract shape on a pink-tinged plain of grass, were displayed on an LED wall at Unik, the rooftop bar, so they synergized with the panoramic Caribbean Sea vistas—and its inhabitants: The exhibition supported the Saving Our Sharks Foundation, a U.S.–based nonprofit organization that uses art to raise awareness for endangered marine species. —Wilson Barlow

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