Commercial interiors can often be a great place to gain inspiration for the domestic environment. Whether these office spaces, restaurants or hotels are in North America, Europe or the Far East, there will be certain designs and styles that will appeal to everyone. This is very much the case with the Losari Coffee Plantation Resort & Spa as pictured in the images below.
The Resort lies in the forests of central Java, which is one of the main islands that make up Indonesia. During the Dutch colonial years, when named the Dutch East Indies, the area was a large and prosperous coffee plantation. However, as time went on, the plantation fell into an abandoned state of dereliction, that was until an Italian by the name of Gabriella Teggia cast eyes on it just over ten years ago.
Teggia has devoted a decade in what can only be described as a labour of love, in restoring the property and enhancing its natural beauty. It has now been turned back into a working coffee plantation as well as also acting as a villa and spa.
I’ve collected together a few images of the Losari Coffee Plantation Resort & Spa for your enjoyment. Here they are:
The antiques one can see dotted about are in the traditional Javanese style and have been collected by Gabriella herself over the years.
This stone bath as seen in the picture above is hewn from a tonne of stone from a nearby river. Engineers spent over a week transporting the stone to the plantation site.
The Losari’s reception and lobby area is in fact part of the old Mayong train station which had been about to be destroyed. That was before Gabriella invested money and bought every last piece and rebuilt it timber by timber.
Source: Mr and Mrs Smith
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What beautiful and inspiring images!
If you get a chance come by my Blog for a visit and say hi. I have put up quite a few new posts and will be putting more up this week from the San Francisco International Gift Fair where my Pillow Collection was featured and Romantic Homes who has featured my Pillows in their beautiful magazine.
Have a great week,
Aimee
What a charming place! I love how you give a bit of history on the place, it definitely makes you appreciate the current state of it so much more, knowing how & where it came about. I love the attention to detail that have been carefully put into each area, like you mentioned: it is definitely a labour of love – and it sure shows! I am already day dreaming having my morning coffee on that cute balcony overlooking the mountain view…
I love the bath, especially the recessed tub with the wide window. I can almost feel the breeze! I also like the bath fixtures; venetian bronze is a long time favorite of mine
The use of local material has quite a charm while designing such places. It ensures for harmony as in the place above. Most designers in trying to be outlandish create an anachronism. Here we have the aesthete combined with nature’s glory. Once you have been there, you would never feel homesick.