HOTEL REVIEW


Luna2 Studios Seminyak


Words: Elly Earls Renderings: Courtesy of Design Hotels


Nostalgia meets innovation in the latest addition to Melanie Hall’s Luna2 brand, a studiotel with a colour scheme inspired by the works of Piet Mondrian.


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n 2007 interior designer Melanie Hall opened Luna2 Private Hotel, an ultra-modern five-bedroom property named after the first spacecraft to land on the moon. Aimed at a super-sophisticated target market of ‘jet-


setting lunatics’, it was unlike any hotel Bali had seen before and didn’t feature any of the neo-Balinese styling that had become popular on the Island of the Gods. Luna2 Private Hotel was simply a peek into the design ethos of its owner – a quirky mix of nostalgia, futurism and fun. Six years on, Hall is back with her second project – a ‘studiotel’ located next to its beachfront sister property – and her ‘funked-up modernism’ is still very much alive and well. “I didn’t feel any need to challenge the ubiquitous ‘modern Bali’ approach to design; many are doing that so well,” Hall explains. “This is my thing; I am entirely addicted to nostalgia, by which I’m referring to the great modernism of the past, futurism, and, yes, I do like to have a bit of fun in the process!” The fibreglass façade of Luna2 Studios, which Hall recalls as the most painstaking part of the hotel to design and produce, epitomises her ethos and offers a glimpse of what to expect inside. “It is inspired by a Verner Panton fabric from the Sixties,” she says. “Of course, we redesigned the pattern to make it our own.” The subtle design was then playfully christened


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