The Luna2 Private Hotel by David Wahl and Melanie Hall
Luna2 is a private beachfront hotel in Bali, Indonesia that has been designed by American architect David Wahl, with interiors by owner and interior designer Melanie Hall.
The hotel is called “private” because they only accept one guest booking at a time for the five bedroom Richard Neutra-inspired beachfront house.
Kory Drahos on 07 Nov 2009 at 10:48 pm #
Stunning. It’s like a playground for adults. I love the view from the backyard, it reminds me of a surrealist landscape.
Robin Ng on 08 Nov 2009 at 2:13 am #
Love the selection of material and color! this is my kind of dream house!
Lance on 08 Nov 2009 at 6:09 am #
I’m kind of torn on this one. The interior, though keeping in tune with a hotel, just doesn’t fit a “house”. But if I detach myself from that notion… WOW! The complex really do make it an exceptionally nice “hotel”.
Jody on 08 Nov 2009 at 8:28 am #
Wow. Really well put together interiors. the houndstooth mosiac in the last photo is …. EPIC
LouisP on 08 Nov 2009 at 3:52 pm #
Love the house, decor and outdoor spaces. Unfortunately i wouldn’t be able to afford or experience this place at a daily rate of $3,000 (low season), $4,000+ (high season).
Also, as beautiful as these images are, I would bet they’re all Renderings.
Dave on 08 Nov 2009 at 3:53 pm #
None of these images are renderings, I’ve seen the high resolution versions.
These are all real photos.
melanie hall on 08 Nov 2009 at 5:28 pm #
hey guys, Melanie here – owner and designer of Luna2 above – thanks for all your comments, really good of you to take the time. What we are is, Luna2 private Hotel, with the services of an exclusive hotel, and the intimacy of a home. hence the new term Private Hotel. FYI, 90% pf the interiors i have custom-designed and had made here in jakarta. The rest are simply design classics from europe to add nostalgia to my own designs. As to my style? I like to call it “funk’d up modernism”. I revere the timeless of modernist design, and i welcome the innovation of the 21st century, whilst having fun in the process. It is indeed a playground for not only adults, but those wiht kids – we are a master at handling the needs of kids. We believe that happy kids, means happy mummies, means happy husbands! we have a team of 25 staff to cater to our guest’s every whim – including exceutive chef, Danny Drinkwater from the uk, and previously the exec chef from Park Hyatt in sydney. He is accompanied by an australian chef de cuisine, also a pastry chef, and a local breakfast chef. In all, it is a unique experience staying at Luna2 – and many say it is frankly out-of-this-world! Thanks again. watch this space for my next project, Luna2 studios, also in Bali! Melanie Hall
LouisP on 09 Nov 2009 at 11:20 am #
Melanie – Thanks for sharing with us your thoughts on the project and for providing additional information on the Luna2 venture.
I was hoping you can provide us or give credit to the name of either the ‘photographer’ or (as i still believe)the visualization artist who produced these fine images. I’m one myself, and we can’t underestimate the skill level and advancement of today’s raytracing technology that is capable of producing images of this quality. These ’scenes’ best demonstrate radiosity, photon mapping, focal blur, and other photorealistic capabilities.
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Dave – I also found it peculiar that the Audrey Hepburn poster appears in Images 6 and 7 respectively but in two different locations.
Sorry to be a pest about this. Blame it on my inquisitive nature. If you want to see some excellent examples, visit the site, hof.povray(dot)org and click on the “Hall of Fame” menu. For highly detailed still life images with similar characteristics to Luna2, see “Office” by Jaime Vives Piqueres or “Glasses” by Gilles Tran
Dave on 09 Nov 2009 at 1:24 pm #
They probably look like renderings because they ran the photos through some photoshop filter which cause a kind of rendering effect.
Also, they might look that way because these are the low-resolution versions, and it’s difficult to see the imperfections that exist in photography when you’re just seeing a small version. If you were able to see the high-res versions, it becomes much more obvious that they’re not renderings, especially since so many of them have real people in them.
Here are some higher-resolution:
http://img4.imageshack.us/i/lunaao.jpg/
and
http://img4.imageshack.us/i/lunabl.jpg/
André on 12 Nov 2009 at 1:02 pm #
Well, for me it is just another Malibu/Antibes/Mallorca style mansion with less elements of Bali. And those big walls bordering the area gives you an idea of Berlin in 1985. The container look let you dream of moving this house to any spot you want…to spoil it.
Michael on 18 Nov 2009 at 10:32 pm #
Great place.
But I don’t understand why some here find it more plausible that a highly- skilled visualization artist with advanced ray-tracing technology spent the time and effort to create the images just for the sake of… creating images; rather than believing that someone simply built a nice hotel and furnished it smartly…
colleen on 19 Nov 2009 at 9:24 am #
It’s sad to go all the way to Bali, pay enormous amounts of money to stay in this hotel/house void of anything Balinese. Where’s the culture of the land, where’s the indeginous materials that is typically Bali and so beautiful. This house can be anywhere else like Italy or Spain or California.
divya on 22 Nov 2009 at 5:54 am #
excellent work….would really love to visit and stay in the spaces like these..