The Bermudian - Summer 2017

grey and retreat from view as King’s personal
modern art collection enhances the space.

To the right, an impressive, floating spiral staircase leads down to the bar and restaurants below while a sitting area features a fascinating variety of textural décor to enjoy while waiting or relaxing.

“In terms of its aesthetic look, I wanted it to have elements of traditional Bermuda, which obviously has to happen, but we wanted to clean it up a little bit and add a bit of a European feel to it,” explained King.

Immediately past the check-in desk, and highlighted by a custom-designed rug featuring the map of Bermuda, an art-lined corridor leads to the eastern section of the guest suites while a covered walkway to the west leads to the other. The 700-square-foot rooms are sophisticated and modern with large, private balconies that all face the spectacular south shore views. The spa-like, five-piece marble bathrooms are impressive in size, detailed to the finest quality and naturally filled with luxurious linens and bath products.

A collector himself, King felt the art throughout the hotel was important to the overall aesthetic, and his passion for the island’s outstanding ocean views influenced the pieces chosen for the rooms. “Bermuda to me was always about its views. Its coastline is absolutely gorgeous,” he said.

“A friend of mine from Miami and I started
talking about what kind of art we wanted
to do in the rooms as art played a big theme
throughout the hotel.
“We commissioned him (he is a photogra-
pher) to go out and get various shots of Ber-
muda’s coastline, then we created this diptych,
mirror image idea that we printed.

“Like the whole building, there is symmetry
between the natural landscape and the build
environment. We wanted to create this idea
that you look one way in the room and you’ve
got a synthetic representation of the coastline
and you look the other way and you’ve got the
real coastline.”
Aside from room service, of course, the
hotel features two dining options—the
Marée restaurant (French for “tide”) with its
refined European style and high-end seasonal
cuisine, and the more casual Pink Beach Club.

The latter was built as a rotunda, with a flat
roof, which functions as ideal entertainment
space—and will no doubt soon be a preferred
wedding location as it looks out over the
vast ocean and to the pool and beach areas
below. Designed without exterior walls (only
columns) facing the ocean, the restaurant can
be completely open on a perfect day or subtly
enclosed and protected from high winds, rain
and heat with hurricane-proof, translucent
screens, custom designed and finished specifi-
cally for the hotel.

Other amenities include a spa, a gym, a kids’ room, a boutique, two pools, a private meet-ing/dining room in the lobby and another on the rooftop and, of course, the hotel’s own private beach.

A clear design decision for the hotel is the intentional density of the property. Nestled into the hillside with the back-end operations completely underground and all guest areas interconnected and covered, The Loren was