Grand Cayman lodge Palm Heights is sort of a 1970s Caribbean mansion

Inventive director Gabriella Khalil has created Grand Cayman’s first boutique lodge, the beachfront Palm Heights, full of collectible design items like Mario Bellini sofas, Ingo Maurer lights and an Ettore Sottsass rug.

Khalil is the artistic director and founding father of Palm Heights, situated on the well-known, white sand Seven Mile Seaside in Grand Cayman, the biggest of the three Cayman Islands within the Caribbean.

Working with designers Sarita Posada and Courtney Applebaum, the London-based inside designer developed the design aesthetic to be like a 1970s-era mansion. The trio sourced appropriate designs to brighten the property from Parisian flea markets, Los Angeles and Mexico.

“The design idea was impressed by the concept of a 70s period Caribbean mansion that includes collectible distinctive design items from Marcel Breuer, Mario Bellini, artworks by Pierre Paulin, and Vladimir Kagan to call just a few,” mentioned the group.

Plenty of these might be discovered within the visitor lounge, which is meant as the center of the 50-bedroom lodge, together with a chequered Sottsass rug held on the wall like a bit of artwork and a collection of Maurer’s Uchiwa wall lamps behind the curved reception desk.

Items by a spread of European designers and designers like Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, French furnishings designer Pierre Chapo, Italian designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli, and Italian architect and designer Mario Bellini additionally enhance this house.

Khalil travelled by North Africa to analysis textiles for the undertaking and has included a spread of patterns and supplies all through.

Woven materials with black outlines cowl the partitions in a sitting space, offering a contract to blush lime-green sofas working beneath. They face picket tables and white-painted wicker chairs with inexperienced trims.

The 50 bed room suites are equally adorned with distinctive paintings and items from designers together with French furnishings designer Pierre Paulin, American furnishings designer Vladimir Kagan, Scottish architect Charles Rennie Waterproof coat, Italian architect Gae Aulenti and Dutch jewelry and industrial designer Gijs Bakker.

Sandy yellows and daring blue tones, harking back to the seaside, run all through every room. Particulars embrace pale stone flooring sourced from Italy and pale brown couch upholstery and curtains.

The suites open onto the balconies on the rear of the property, which is designed to stagger down in the direction of Palm Heights’ slice of the seaside. A few of the suites have outside areas with eating tables and solar loungers, the place visitors can laze and benefit from the sea views.

Eateries within the lodge embrace The Coconut Membership, an off-the-cuff seaside bar, and the principle restaurant Tillies, which has an out of doors space overlooking the ocean and an indoor eating room.

There are two swimming swimming pools divided by inexperienced hedges to supply privateness for the visitors – one of many swimming pools is flanked by palm timber and extends in the direction of the ocean. Visitors also can chill out on the lodge’s solar loungers on the seaside, which have yellow- and white-striped umbrellas, or play ping-pong at branded tables.

Khalil is at the moment working with architect Dong-Ping Wong, who runs New York studio Meals, to finish an out of doors wellness house known as The Backyard Membership, which is about to open later this yr.

Palm Heights is billed as the primary boutique lodge in Grand Cayman.

Different not too long ago accomplished boutique motels in spectacular settings the world over embrace Kasiiya Papagayo, which has tented visitor rooms that peek from a tropical forest in Costa Rica, and Casa Grande Resort in Spain, which occupies 18th-century stone manor home.

Pictures is by Brooke Shanesy.