Fancy a weekend escape with uber-designer Bill Bensley in Bali?
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Fancy a weekend escape with uber-designer Bill Bensley in Bali?
CNA gets up close and personal with the veteran designer as he preps for a personally led behind-the-scene tour of the Capella Ubud.
The Officers Tent is the camp's living room, where morning coffee, afternoon tea and the daily evening cocktails are served. (Photo: Capella Ubud)
06 Oct 2022 06:30AM (Updated: 04 Jul 2022 02:23PM)
Over the grade of his 3-decade storied career, Beak Bensley has created over 200 eye-popping resorts around the world. From the Arabian-esque fantasy of the St Regis Langkawi to the grown-up Hogswart-flavoured JW Marriott Phu Quoc, the American Bali- and Bangkok-based designer has single-handedly rewritten the book on how to set the phase for a hotel lobby, and to style a chamber with a cheeky sense of humour and an off-the-nautical chart Instagram caliber.
One of Bensley'due south marquee moments in the past year has been the Capella Ubud in Bali – a European settler-themed fantasy of 22 tents set in the midst of Ubud'due south thick jungle canopy. Bordered past jade-green rice fields and the sacred Wos River, this very grown-upwardly escapist retreat adequately brims with Bensley'due south trademark off-kilter flair for the unexpected – whether in the capacious tents, each styled as an homage to an antique arts and crafts similar puppet making and blistering, and every corner stuffed with a magpie's collection of antique furniture and accessories, or the copper bathtubs, outdoor deck showers, and swaying timber bridges.
"When I shop, I store for a multitude of projects, but the all-time finds e'er cease up in my home!" Bensley confides, an unapologetic revelation that makes y'all wonder, if the Capella Ubud is already looking so decidedly otherworldly in its furnishings, simply what his home must look like.
Somewhat unusually, Bensley is making himself bachelor in early November for a personalised design-focused weekend retreat at Capella Ubud where he volition lead a bout of both the resort and the neighbourhood, while providing an all-admission laissez passer into his creative process.
For Bensley fans, the treats will a picnic lunch and two dinners, a sketching session in the Wos River temple down the colina, and shopping for antiques, aslope a tour of his Balinese studio and a guided walk-through of Neka Art Museum.
The latter excursion volition be particularly fascinating as it contains a good drove of the early western artists who arrived in Bali and vicious in honey with it. "I know a footling almost this art and menstruation and I am keen to share that," Bensley says, "and the Neka has a proficient collection that I can speak to. In fact, the pride of place among my personal art collection are the early on western artists in Bali similar Walter Spies, Miguel Covarrubias, Rudolf Bonnet, Auke Sonnega and Arie Smit."
On every metric, the weekend retreat will provide curious guests and blueprint-philes with a fresh perspective on the resort's design, non least spotting an original Bonnet – a dramatic rendition of a Karangasem king getting dressed for a ceremony – that hangs in the Capella'due south Auriga Spa lounge, or getting the within scoop on Bensley's favourite decorative piece. "There's a Javanese farmer'due south demote that I put in the Toy Maker'southward tent. It's primitive and information technology was used to cut tobacco and information technology's just delightful."
As delightful is the Capella Ubud's recent annunciation that the response to Bensley's upcoming residency has been so positive that, what was originally meant to be an in-house guests, is at present open up to those not staying at the resort.
The design retreat will take identify from November ane to 3. Rates start from US$one,300 (Southward$ane,800) nett per tent per night. www.capellaubud.com
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