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position: Singapore
designer: Ian Schrager and Cap Atelier
On offer: Just off Singapore’s grand Orchard Road, EDITION’s first Southeast Asia hotel will be located in the eye-catching Moshe Safdie building in collaboration with DP Architects. A bronze and glass façade gives way to a white marble lobby with a gilded domed ceiling and soaring windows cooled by wide louvers, where a white Venetian stucco spiral staircase punctuates a black tiled pool and timber decking. descending into a secluded garden oasis. The building surrounds this courtyard and also includes a spa on the second floor with a thermal pool and ice fountain. The 6-story guest rooms are Ian Schrager and cap atelierRising around a central tropical foliage, each is equipped with white oak plank floors and hand-stitched damask throws.
excellent amenities: christian liegre A pink velvet lobby bar with designed leather chairs and lamps and a rose-colored Calacatta marble pool table is the perfect place for an aperitif before your meal. fish at edition, Chef Josh Kneeland’s first restaurant outside Australia, serves seafood and steaks surrounded by an Antico Verde marble bar and jade velvet banquettes. Enter through a side door for a nightcap in his Yves Klein blue Punch room, adorned with a sculptural pendant by Eric Schmidt. The main attraction is the gorgeous 141-foot-long pool. The white tile base reveals an acrylic eyeball with views of the courtyard, and the adjacent The Roof bar is all terracotta and sunbeds, with tropical bites like fried tempeh gado gado he salad. All are available. , French beans, beringjau crackers, and peanut sauce.
All photography by Nicholas Koenig.