85 photographs

The hotel, as it is

Shot on the property in one week. No stock images, no borrowed views, nothing retouched into somewhere else.

The Pool

Twenty-five metres of saltwater, lumbung roofs at one end and bougainvillea down the length of it. The middle of the hotel in every sense.

Teak platforms, driftwood headboards and hand-cut carvings — all made on Lombok, most of it within a few kilometres of here.

River-stone basins, walk-in showers and a separate toilet in every room. Open to the light, closed to everything else.

À la carte breakfast under the shade, a lounge that stays cool through the afternoon, and a terrace that fills up around sunset.

The parts of the hotel that took the longest: the carved corridor, the lanterns, the fish on the walls.