These aren’t the tree homes of your childhood. The brand new spa remedy rooms that hover slightly below the tree line on the Grand Resort Timeo, a Belmond Resort, in Taormina, Sicily, are next-level cocoons of fashion and wellness that goal to please even the fussiest sybarites.
In celebration of the resort’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Belmond has partnered with the long-lasting vogue and perfume home Dior on two new pop-up spa tree homes referred to as Le Jardin des Rêves Dior Spa, solely out there via October 2023. The interiors and design of the cabins (one single and one double) are the work of Dior inventive director Maria Grazia Chiuri, whereas the wooden and bamboo interiors are by ThirtyOne Design + Administration.
As a nod to the leafy setting outdoors, Chiuri took the well-known Dior Toile de Jouy sample and reinterpreted it on the suites’ drapes in a inexperienced hue. Inside, friends will discover bamboo and rattan seating, brushed brass lamps, and sheets constructed from natural materials. The suites have sea views and are surrounded by the greater than 150-year-old cypress bushes which can be a part of a heritage backyard created by Florence Trevelyan, an English noblewoman, in 1882.
The remedies all middle on Dior skincare, created with warm-weather wants in thoughts. To delay your suntan, go for the Dolce Vita Photo voltaic Glow remedy. (In case your day’s schedule consists of extra solar time, your therapeutic massage therapist will cowl you in sunblock, and if it’s the top of the day, you’ll get an after-sun balm.) For these on the lookout for anti-aging TLC, spring for the Dior Status Haute Précision facial.
The tree home spa suites really feel like a becoming new expertise on the well-regarded 71-room luxurious retreat, which opened as Taormina’s first resort in 1873 with views of Mount Etna and entry to Sicily’s most picturesque seashores. Grand Resort Timeo has an illustrious checklist of earlier friends that embody Gustav Klimt, Audrey Hepburn, Tennessee Williams, and D.H. Lawrence, who labored on Girl Chatterley’s Lover right here.
The Jardin des Rêves Dior Spa isn’t Dior’s first partnership with Belmond, a luxurious hospitality group with a worldwide assortment of inns, practice providers, and river cruises. They collaborated in 2022 on a pop-up spa at Splendido, a Belmond Resort in Portofino, and due to its reputation, the spa returned this summer time. In 2023, Belmond additionally added a Dior Spa collaboration on the Royal Scotsman practice.
“Le Jardin des Rêves Dior at Timeo is a one-of-a-kind expertise, which not solely permits us to supply our friends the possibility to expertise remedies open air, but in addition to benefit from the feeling of being suspended between sky and earth,” says Sarah Gambacurta, the spa supervisor at Grand Resort Timeo. “The tree-cabins make you’re feeling actually immersed in nature, and this can be a wellness pattern many individuals are on the lookout for these days.”
