DelMango Villa Estate Seminyak


Words: Elly Earls Photography: Courtesy of DelMango Villa Estate and Design Hotels


Balinese architect Yoka Sara and Japanese interior designer Nobuyuki Narabayashi have have succeeded in blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor to create 14 villas for developer Selected Estates.


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elMango Villa Estate, an eco-friendly hideaway in the heart of cosmopolitan Seminyak, is at once an ode to the back-to-nature lifestyle for which Bali first became known. Yet it is also an unashamedly urban retreat offering all the comforts of a luxury resort.


Envisaged by first time hotelier Ronny Tome and his business partner Mario


Hintermayer, the project is something of a labour of love for the Managing Director of development firm Selected Estates Pte Ltd. German-born Tome moved to Bali in 1995 and has since become passionate about protecting his adoptive country’s natural beauty. In 2005, he met Austrian entrepreneur Mario Hintermayer and the pair set about creating a series of self-contained villas with eco-friendly credentials. Brought to life by Balinese architect Yoka Sara and Japanese interior designer


Nobuyuki Narabayashi, the concept for DelMango’s design was originally based on one simple form. “The idea was clear from the beginning; there’s a huge mango tree which is over one hundred years old at the entrance of the property, so it was always going to be mango-related,” Tome explains. “But we needed someone who could put that on paper. We were looking for an unusual architect, someone who could create something out of the ordinary, brave and bold, but also organic.” A friend suggested internationally-acclaimed Balinese architect Yoka Sara, who is


renowned for capturing his clients’ personalities and blending them with the natural forces and energies of a site. Perfect, Tome thought. All that remained was finding an interior designer to match.


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