Couture style and bespoke Italian design at new Kent Lui-designed Reverie Saigon hotel
The new 39-storey, 286-bedroom Reverie Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam has soft-opened, with an official opening scheduled for September.
Designed by architect Kent Lui of Kent Lui Tactics, the hotel combines couture style with bespoke, Italian design. Unique design elements abound, including a colourful ceiling installation of individual pieces of hand-blown glass in the street-level lobby, which, intertwined, echo the geographic silhouette of Vietnam.
Each of the 286 bedrooms are individually furnished by Italian design houses including Visionnaire, Provasi, Giorgetti and Colombo Stile, and feature floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the city and the Saigon River. Interiors range from sophisticated modern to classically European, and from fashionably chic to whimsical and sassy, the company said.
The hotel features unique details; a one-of-a-kind Bechstein grand piano, dating from 1895, will sit in the La Scala Grand Ballroom, reimagined and transformed by the Florentine company Baldi into an opulent piece of art. Meanwhile a 3m (10ft) tall Baldi clock in the main lobby, commissioned especially for the hotel, is made with crystals and 24-karat gold accents.
Hand-blown glass chandeliers by Venini and crystal chandeliers by VGnewtrend adorn the ceilings, and even the elevators ooze opulence, with walls of sleek, stencilled steel and golden agate fossil. The hotel is also home to a 48m (157ft) long bar – the length of a city block – that can cater to up to 300 patrons at a time.
Its 1,200sq m (12,917sq ft), 10-treatment room spa also features a decidedly European-inspired setting, striking a balance between opulent luxury and natural inspiration.
The spa reception area is a bold combination of white marble, golden mosaic tiles, rose carpeting and plush leather. A curved staircase is decorated in a floral mosaic pattern designed by Sicis of Italy, and provides a segue from the classical extravagance of the reception area to the more contemporary ambiance on the floor above.
In the treatment areas, bowed walls of slatted walnut line the passageways, designed to be an abstract interpretation of waves. Inside the treatment rooms, walls are clad in a cafe au lait shade of leather, and floor-to-ceiling windows allow for natural light.
The swimming pool, located on an open-air deck, includes mosaic tile artistry, also by Sicis, and an underwater sound system plays a compilation of music that changes with the mood of the day.
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