News notes
Posh pods Amilla Fushi in the Maldives has a new Javvu spa village with 10 treatment “pods” and a treehouse spa suite. The spa menu combines treatments under Movement, Spirituality and Spa, while yoga and pilates classes take place on a lagoon jetty,
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Child’s play Rome Cavalieri, part of Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, is offering a new complimentary Kids Club for children aged 4-10. Open daily from 2.30pm to 7pm there’s sports, art classes, magic tricks, pizza baking and games at the onsite fun fair,
romecavalieri.com
Chic Chicago The Conrad Chicago is scheduled to open in spring just off Michigan Avenue. Designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, the 20-storey property will offer 287 rooms and its location means easy access to top shops and restaurants,
conradhotels.com See p34 for more on Chicago
It’s only natural Italy is the next locale for Natural Retreats with new properties in popular Tuscan areas such as Lucca, Pisa, Sienna and Florence and all within a 40-minute drive of Pisa International airport,
naturalretreats.com
sherpa strength The latest range from Sherpa Adventure Gear will see anyone through a winter here – or on pursuits further afield. Every sale benefits the education of Sherpa children, sherpaadventure
gear.co.uk
Bawah adds wow to Indonesia By April Hutchinson
A new island destination is set to further enhance Indonesia’s luxury credentials when it opens in autumn. Bawah Private Island is being developed as
an ecologically-sound destination by a group of Singaporean investors led by Tim Hartnoll. He has been working on the project for a number of years, but marketing is now ramping up in the UK as the resort looks to a 2016 opening with John Petch of JWP Collection representing the resort. Bawah is actually a cluster of five pristine islands in the Anambas archipelago and will open as a resort with just 35 bamboo villas – 24 beach and 11 over-water. It has been designed by architect Sim Boon Yang of Eco-ID,
Luhrmann designs hotel with Faena
The opening this month of the Faena Hotel Miami Beach, in what was the historic Saxony Hotel, will mark the debut of the Faena District, a new, beach-lined, art and culture area orchestrated by Alan Faena, the Argentine hotelier and real estate developer. Film director Baz Luhrmann and his Academy
Award-winning wife, the designer Catherine Martin, have created the look for the hotel’s rooms, penthouses and public spaces. Its theatre will present live cabaret shows and there will also be a South American-influenced spa and a barbecue restaurant. The Faena District stretches north from 32nd
Street to 36th Street, between the Atlantic and Indian Creek and already includes an 18-storey condominium designed by Foster + Partners and recently renovated beachside guesthouse Casa
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Claridges. In April, art centre OMA will open with a series of large flexible spaces for projects, installations, performances and events. Other cultural hubs, hotels, shops, restaurants and homes will follow in phases over the next three years.
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whose previous projects include The Sarojin in Thailand and the Naumi Hotel, Singapore. Trevor Hillier of One Degree North Landscape Architects – behind many Como and Four Seasons resorts – is also involved, while the general manager is Tom Blachere, who has years of management experience in Malaysia and the Maldives. Bawah is reached via a 40-minute boat ride
from Singapore to Pulau Batam, from where guests will be collected in Bawah’s private seaplane for the hour-long onward flight. The project has taken three years and in
efforts to preserve the environment, no heavy machinery has been allowed onto the islands. Bawah is in talks with regional authorities to
make an area of up to a mile from the house reef a protected marine park.
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