le jardin des rêves: a ‘backyard of desires’ opens in taormina
Dior and Rome-based studio ThirtyOne Design + Administration take to the gardens of Taormina to create a pair of tiny treehouse cabins — a wellness retreat on the Grand Resort Timeo, a Belmond Resort. Titled ‘Le Jardin des Rêves’ (The Backyard of Desires), the mission has been accomplished in time for the resort‘s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. From June to October 2023, friends are invited to take pleasure in unique skincare therapies by Dior amidst the verdant oasis overlooking the ocean.
photos © Pierre Mouton for Parfums Christian Dior
the legendary sicilian ‘grand resort timeo’
Dior and ThirtyOne Design + Administration perch the wellness cabins throughout the lush, six-acre gardens of Taormina’s Belmond Grand Resort Timeo. The 150 year-old resort was initially designed by Florence Trevelyan, a famend English gardener and wildlife conservationist within the late nineteenth century, have lengthy been a supply of serenity and creative inspiration. In the course of the years since, quite a few artists and writers sought solace and inventive power inside these gardens. Immediately, the collaboration between Grand Resort Timeo and Dior Spa continues this custom, inviting friends to expertise a second of well-being throughout the resort’s lush enclave.
verdant wellness areas by dior
The Dior treehouse remedy cabins, accessible by way of a wood staircase, supply friends a fascinating escape amidst the majestic cypress timber. Two exquisitely designed cabins, one double and one single, stand gracefully among the many branches. Adorned with the long-lasting Dior toile de jouy curtains in an identical vibrant inexperienced shade, these wood buildings mix harmoniously with their pure environment.
Drawing inspiration from the plush wildlife enveloping the pop-up spa, Maria Grazia Chiuri, the Inventive Director of Dior, has reimagined the Dior cloth to adorn the cabins. The distinctive leaf-green motif creates an intimate and refined ambiance, complemented by bamboo seating and fashionable design lamps completed with brushed brass. Every cabin, meticulously crafted by ThirtyOne Design + Administration, options its personal particular person terrace with sweeping sea views. Right here, friends can take pleasure in moments of privateness and serenity, with rattan furnishings, parasols matching the cabin’s cloth, and thoroughly positioned potted crops.
The crew at Dior describes the wellness therapies accessible at its Grand Resort Timeo cabins: ‘The menu of signature face and physique therapies attracts on the talents and experience of Dior skincare, created to assist the pores and skin and senses blossom through the summer time. The signature Dolce Vita photo voltaic glow face and physique one-hour remedy ensures a wonderfully enhanced and prolonged solar tan. Relying on the time of the remedy, it concludes with both a head-to-toe utility of protecting solar cream, lotion or oil earlier than solar publicity, or with a soothing after-sun balm or shimmering oil, on the finish of the day.
‘Magnificence-enhancing therapies, all characterised by the long-lasting Dior strategies that mix the perfect of conventional Jap and Western strategies with highly effective, focused actions, embrace: Dior Status Haute Précision, a serious holistic face remedy utilizing the Dior status line and mixing the regenerative energy of the Granville Rose with enveloping therapeutic massage strategies to mix pleasure with seen correction of the indicators of age; and Constellation, a deeply enjoyable holistic physique therapeutic massage , for good concord between physique and thoughts.’
