The Club Med: Plantation Albion
Which has been the main theme of this new village?
"For this programme which (since 3 years) the only instructions given were: genuineness, colour and conviviality.
By showing our project, we have insisted on a village with a soul, happy in its modernity, telling a story (the island's) and the Club's identity.
The aim was to strengthen the island's spirit, by being inspired of its Mauritian origins. We have played with the mix of cultures and showed the authentic local art craft..
We have also been working with a Mauritian architect, Jean-Michel d'Unienville, a colourful character, who added his local touch."
A natural village
Based around a sugar cane field and along a white sand beach, the Club is in a natural environment. The landscape architect, Isabelle Linsky, from South-West, has insisted on this authenticity, protecting trees and exotic vegetation, showing a “wild” aspect.
Nothing spectacular in the architecture mainly horizontal, hidden in vegetation, but the ladders keep a human aspect, elegant and discrete.
Beige and kaki front of house (like earth), thatch roofs for public buildings, and green roofs for housings: they have respected the Mauritian codes.
The creed "free circulation between all buildings, wellness and simplicity" has been respected.Spaces are open to allow the customer to do what he wants in total freedom.
Creole rooms and suites
The customer has a room, and a luxury room, all with a terrace. 70 suites have a garden and a patio. The highest pitch is these private villas which offer both intimacy and luxury. The decoration has a local touch, contemporary white and pink, for a tonic spirit. Everything is about details, in rooms as well as in public places.
Even the bathrooms are charming, still with Creole influence. Dutch furniture, embroidered paintings, wood carving, rattan braided chairs express a colonial style
Thematic places
"To express the plurality of the Mauritian Island, we have created thematic spaces, in agreement with the free circulation of people", says Nicolas Adnet.
The African Pavilion has long columns which hold the thatch roof, and shows turquoise colours. The Bar (8 shaped) reminds of the famous Banyan tree and lacquered armchairs. The Lobby decorates its wall with white mother-of-pearl. The Amphitheater was built as a warehouse, dressed with a curtains made out of ribbons."
One of the restaurants has been dedicated to the natural (water, fire, earth, air) and each room has one of these themes.
"For water, for example, we have used wood branches and sea rocks" says .
The Spa
The masterpiece of the Club remains the Spa, hidden in nature anda long the water.
In total,
"We wanted a horizontal architecture, with a zen atmosphere, with a cloistered path to go the cares." White pebbles on the floor, fountains, and bamboos along the way are the items of decoration of this new
Let us hope it will seduce a new clientele, fan of wellness.
Marc Hertrich Studio
Marc Hertrich and Nicolas Adnet introduce themselves as interior scenarists.
It is a different manner to start each new project of inside architecture. The Marc HertrichStudio is an agency of interior designers/architects ho, for nearly 20 years, write and directs new stories after each realisation. Craftsmen, artists, grafic designer or other creators make the team and combine all their talents.
Their customers have understood their philosophy and trust them to direct their own decor. Among the important work, we like: restaurants for star chiefs at the MichelinL'Absinthe and Désirier for Michel Rostand, the future restaurant of the Sofitel Hotel of
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