Berlin – From traditionally renovated buildings courting again to the twelfth, 18th, and Nineteenth centuries in Italy, Spain, and Montenegro to fashionable architectural masterpieces in Greece and Indonesia, the most recent members of Design Resorts share a standard objective: to honor and protect their surrounding landscapes and cultures. Every of the next eight properties replicate this ethos via distinctly modern lenses, creating distinctive locations that foster particular person experiences in addition to intimate emotions of neighborhood.
Situated in Unhealthy Gastein, a picturesque city within the Austrian Alps, The Cōmodo strikes an ideal steadiness between creativity, rejuvenation, and nature. The year-round vacation spot is framed by forested cliffs and gaping valleys, with an overarching design imaginative and prescient to echo the fantastic thing about the environment and honor the timeless aesthetics of Sixties and 70s. Classic mid-century fashionable furnishings are expertly curated amongst bespoke items, distinctive artworks, and site-specific lighting installations. Its 70 rooms are available in a spread of sizes to fulfill each visitor’s wants, whereas the onsite farm-to-table restaurant, spa, boutique cinema, and summer time backyard spherical out the luxe choices.
Additionally celebrating its pure environment is ORA Resort Priorat in Torroja del Priorat, Spain. Set in an 18th-century abbey, the 13-room property embraces the approach to life of the area’s wine nation and acts as an excellent gateway to the close by rolling hills, superb delicacies, and timeless traditions. Baroque arches, pillars, and ceilings information friends via corridors that divulge heart’s contents to each austere and welcoming areas, together with guestrooms and the in-house restaurant. Rooms function wooden floors and darkish tiles that play off shiny partitions and black-iron-framed glass doorways, alongside {custom} furnishings, together with inexperienced velvet sofas and wood-and-rattan headboards. On the restaurant, regionally impressed, handmade dishes are made primarily with components from an onsite backyard and paired with the very best Priorat wines.
From components used within the restaurant to an iron pergola to bespoke furnishings, every part at Vocabolo Moscatelli in Umbertide, a village in Umbria, is regionally sourced and produced. Housed inside a 12-century monastery, faithfully restored by Jacopo Venerosi Pesciolini of studio Archiloop, and centered round a piazza with a historic church, the property seems like a miniature Italian village in and of itself. Authentic stone and brick buildings are augmented by crisp, modern strains within the 12 guestrooms and suites, every of which is individually designed with {custom} furnishings by Samarreda and Tosconova. Outdoors, a 30-meter pergola, solid by the century-old Italian blacksmith model Lipsi, stretches again to a grove the place the Arboreal Archaeology Basis has planted forgotten fruit timber native to the area.
Additional south in Italy, Rome’s Palazzo Velabro is located in a residential historic space supreme for guests who wish to uncover town and dwell as a Roman. Housed inside an 18th-century palazzo that was renovated by world-renowned architect Luigi Moretti in 1960, every part inside was custom-made in Italy with nods to the construction’s historical past: frescoes by younger Italian artists adorn the partitions, Garbellotto crafted wooden flooring, and sofas and textiles had been created by Quinti and Moroso e Pedrali. Further options embrace ribbed and curved walnut wooden boiserie—an homage to décor of the Nineteen Forties and 50s—in addition to timeless marble fixtures in loos and public areas.
Elsewhere, Mamula Island reimagines a beforehand uninhabited islet and Nineteenth-century fortress off the coast of Herceg Novi, Montenegro. The traditionally renovated construction is paired with bespoke, fashionable furnishings to supply friends with a complicated one-of-a-kind expertise—one that’s replete with a fine-dining restaurant providing a frequently altering, seasonal menu, two all-day eateries with extra informal fare, a lavish spa within the former fortress tower, three fresh- and saltwater swimming pools, and a serviced seashore. All of this and extra is encircled by sea and sky, with far-reaching views of the crystal-clear waters of Bay of Kotor—a UNESCO World Heritage Website—and wild surroundings past.
Additionally looking over a picturesque sea is the three-villa property Pnoēs Tinos, the titular Greek island’s first true luxurious design vacation spot. The idea was conceived and overseen totally by famed architect Aristides Dallas, leading to architecturally gorgeous villas that respect and reconnect friends with three important components: earth, wind, and water. Every villa options solely bespoke furnishings unfold throughout two bedrooms, a non-public pool, a cooking and dwelling space, an expansive out of doors lounge area, and an natural backyard with edible fruits, greens, and herbs for friends to reap. Past stress-free and indulging, right here friends are inspired to actively create their very own experiences and have interaction with the encompassing Cycladic tradition and panorama of the Lagkades valley.
In Indonesia, Someplace Lombok affords an unspoiled retreat tucked away on a hillside alongside the southern coast of its eponymous island. Imagined, designed, and run by sisters Valia and Claire Gontard, the resort options communal areas that open to unparalleled views of Are Guling Bay, a world-renowned surf spot, and 20 standalone villas with mini plunge swimming pools overlooking the greenery of the valley and village beneath. Impressed by such pure environment, the structure was handcrafted from regionally sourced supplies and furnishings and décor had been sourced from a community of native craftspeople, artists, and small companies—combining to guide friends on a conscious journey into Indonesia’s tradition and setting.
On the southeastern Indonesian island of Sumba, acutely aware journey, authenticity, and neighborhood unite at Cap Karoso. Surrounded by towering cliffs, turquoise lagoons with coral reefs, and uma mbatangu homes with hovering 25-meter-high roofs, the property brings French-led culinary excellence, modern Indonesian artwork, and modernist buildings along with historically styled pavilions, ikat woven textiles, and crafts made regionally with age-old methods. Lodging vary from rooms to suites to two- and three-bedroom seashore homes, whereas a fine-dining restaurant—all the time helmed by a visiting worldwide chef—serves dishes created with produced sourced from the Cap Karoso Farm and different native suppliers. Past feeding the kitchen, Cap Karoso Farm additionally feeds the minds of locals and friends via an artist-in-residence program, craft ateliers, sustainable landscaping workshops, and extra.
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