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LALUNA MORNE ROUGE, GRENADA |
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| ARCHITECTURE / INTERIOR DESIGN |
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Gabriella Giuntoli
Carmelina Santoro |
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Trickling down a picturesque hillside of Grenada, Laluna stirs a tasty melange of Caribbean, Balinese and Italian design elements to create a smart and utterly tropical hotel overlooking Portici Beach.
Designer Gabriella Giuntoli, who built villas for Giorgio Armani and Sting, has teamed up with Carmelina Santoro to create a masterpiece on ten acres of untouched land in the West Indies. The bougainvillaea filled grounds of the Laluna begin at the end of a narrow dirt road and offer a westward panorama of the turquoise bay. For the look of the 16 cottages covered in the traditional thatched-roof style and all facing west, Giuntoli and Santoro have opted for a contrast of walls painted in bold primary colours and warm natural tones to create an intimate, luxurious Caribbean setting. An artful fusion of Asian elements, like Vietnamese thatch and Indonesian teak wood furniture, is paired with West Indian details including carved coconut shells and paintings by the world-renowned 80-year old Grenadian artist Canute Calliste.
For the cottages, the design team has gone for a West Indian take on “concrete chic” with dappled amber, mauve and russet walls, built-in counters and couches and swirling floor designs covered by simple straw rugs. Teak furnishings on polished concrete floors, simple baseline lamps and generous, handcrafted Balinese four-poster beds swathed in white fabric and piled with soft pillows add to the creation of a clean-cut yet utterly relaxed setting. Seating areas are painted in spicy colours of cinnamon, sienna and yellow, which frame the natural blues and greens of the surrounding landscape. As the sun sets, you can relax on plush silk-covered daybeds on the deck and see the silver moon rising in the cobalt sky, which is how Laluna got its name. |
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