Natural materials that still work as a hotel
Ocean Bay is a tropical resort on the Vietnamese coast: rustic timber architecture, thatched roofs, stone walls, warm lighting and a turquoise pool facing the sea.
Our work covered the spaces guests actually use: bedrooms, bathrooms, the dining room and the outdoor areas around the pool. We supplied interior finishes, furniture and storage, and bathroom products chosen to suit the resort’s natural-material character while standing up to hotel use in a humid coastal climate.
The photographs on this page were taken at the completed resort.
What we supplied
| Product group | What we supplied |
|---|---|
| Guest rooms | Beds, bedside furniture, desks and storage in timber, with interior finishes matched to the stone walls and timber ceilings. |
| Bathrooms | Bathroom products for the guest bathrooms, in the resort’s stone-and-timber style. |
| Dining | Dining tables and chairs for the open-sided timber dining pavilion. |
| Outdoor areas | Furniture for the terraces and the spaces around the pool. |
Guest rooms in timber and stone
The rooms combine stone walls, timber ceilings and floors with solid timber furniture, so the interiors feel like part of the building rather than a standard hotel fit-out placed inside it.
Furniture, finishes and storage were planned room type by room type, which is what keeps repeated rooms consistent while still allowing for the differences between twin rooms, doubles and suites.
Bathrooms that continue the architecture
The bathrooms use stone basins and bathtubs set among timber screens and plants, extending the resort’s natural palette into the wet areas.
For a resort, bathroom products have to look right and be easy for housekeeping to maintain, so materials and fittings were chosen with both in mind.
Dining and outdoor spaces
The dining pavilion is open-sided and built in timber, so the tables and chairs had to match its warmth and cope with the coastal air. Outdoors, the furniture continues the same material language around the terraces and the pool.
The setting
The pool and pavilions set the tone for the whole property. The interiors were chosen to belong to that setting: warm timber, natural stone and simple forms that guests read as part of the resort rather than imported furniture.