ROSEWOOD
“The design of the building itself is the hand
gesture of greeting known as the wai and I
carried the theme from the architecture into the
interior design, from the big picture right down
to the smallest detail,” says Chu. “I was trying to
create a hotel with a residential feeling that is
about culture and local flavour.”
The process starts at the very first step on the
journey – the drop-off area, which has been
designed with a private driveway to begin the
separation process of taking people from the
bustling, narrow streets of the city into the
calm of the hotel, presenting initially on an
almost domestic scale to fortify the idea of
being in a private home. This first glimpse also
cements the idea that this is a building where
the contemporary and the classical co-exist in
harmony. What looks at first glance like dark,
hardwood panelling and sculpted wood turning
at the entrance doors is actually tinted stainless
steel, while the modern piece of sculpture
that is seen through the doors is ancient
Thai calligraphy representing the word ‘wai’,
designed by artist Jiandyin.
Moving into the drop off area, the panelling here
is wood, but the traditional moulding panels are
in a variety of different sizes and configurations.
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