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The Pitons are an unforgettable sight on St. Lucia. They are featured on the same UNESCO World Heritage list of precious treasures as the Taj Mahal. At Jade Mountain the peaks are so inescapable they greet you every day like old friends. I am tempted to compare views: is morning best, when sea and sky are in vivid primary colours, and fluffy white clouds fill the sky? Or late afternoon, when shadows cast on the mountain flanks grow darker? How about when sunset begins and pink and lavender pastels tinge the sky - or afterward, when the silhouettes are thrown into sharp, dramatic relief.
- Sharon McDonnell, Island Life Magazine, From Here to Eternity
Conde Nast - Room With a View
JADE MOUNTAIN is the "Room with a View" in the September issue of Conde Nast Traveler which is now on all newsstands.
The coveted "Room with a View" feature can usually be found on the last page of the magazine. But for JADE MOUNTAIN, the magazine dedicated an amazing double page spread in order to showcase a complete panorama shot of one of the sun sanctuaries.
"...We are absolutely thrilled to have achieved this recognition by Conde Nast Traveler, in their important 20th anniversary September issue...." says Nick Troubetzkoy, owner, creator, architect and builder of JADE MOUNTAIN. "...We also want to thank Macduff Everton, the photographer, for his enthusiasm
for JADE MOUNTAIN, which can clearly be felt in his stunning photography..."
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While Jade Mountain is often described in the language of art, perhaps the most stunning feature is its relationship with nature's own remarkable sculpture, the awe- inspiring Pitons. Troubetzkoy determined that each room interact with the landmark site, so that the fourth wall, by its absence, frames one of the most spectacular scenes in the Caribbean...... Troubetzkoy said of the sanctuaries " I wanted to create environments that enable guests to forget about the furniture or the fact that they are in a hotel room- in essence, to forget about everything but experiencing the psychology of the space on an intuitive level."
- Kathleen Atkinson, Maco Magazine
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The World's Most Exciting New Hotel
The cover story of the March 2007 issue of Caribbean Travel & Life applauds Jade Mountain in St. Lucia as a "masterpiece" and "the most exciting new hotel in the world." Writer, Joan Tapper, former editor of National Geographic Traveler, recently stayed at the resort and describes her experience: "From the moment I walked through the towering jalousied wooden door of my "infinity pool suite" - one of 24 individually designed and furnished accommodations, all with open fourth walls and awe-inspiring Pitons panoramas - I simply wanted to stare at it, reach out and touch it, inhale it and savor it." "Jade Mountain is literally and creatively on another level," says Joan Tapper and it is also described by Nick's wife Karolin Troubetzkoy as "an architectural poem to celebrate one of nature's most amazing settings."
Expect grand sweeping spaces beyond your imagination, with your bedroom, living and extravagantly sized private infinity edge pool gliding into one another to form an amazing platform floating in space with the 4th wall missing entirely. The result is a stage-like setting from which to embrace the full glory - and infinite views - of St. Lucia's twin Pitons and the shimmering Caribbean Sea.
Visitors enter through the rear of the building, a dizzying profusion of stairwells and gangways worthy of an MC Escher painting. Inside, 24 sleekly appointed suites face west, the infinity pools hovering 16 stories above the ocean. The structure has a vaguely futuristic feel, like it could jet off into outer space at any moment.
- Gabe Weisert, Forbes Traveler, The World's Best Hotel Room?
A Study in Jade
The New Jade Mountain Suites at Anse Chastanet
You don't come to the Caribbean for an architectural epiphany, but that's exactly what awaits you at the new Jade Mountain Infinity Suites at Anse Chastanet on beautiful St. Lucia. For architect/owner Nick Troubetzkoy and his wife Karolin it wasn't enough to provide their guests with ringside seats overlooking one of the world's great natural wonders, the Pitons, two volcanic peaks rising abruptly from the sea at the southern, less-developed end of the island. They had to make sure that the viewing point itself was as spectacular as the view. > Read the rest of the review...
The bellman was about to call a doctor. Doubled over with laughter and glee, I 'm sure I looked ill.
That's the kind of response Jade Mountain's rooms elicit. Some people have spontaneously leapt up and down, while other have burst into tears. Talk about a room with a view.
- Kerri Allen, Gayot.com
Everything in my room was built with that vista in mind, including the open, elevated bathroom. There are also exquisite handmade furnishings, attentive staffers, a canopy bed swaddled in imported linen etc,etc.These touches are of course completely extraneous; all my girlfriend and I did from the minute we set down our luggage ( and picked our jaws up off the floor) was skinny-dip, drink champagne, and stare out at the inviting Pitons, discussing which one to climb. If, that is, we ever managed to make it out of the room.
- Josh Dean, Men's Journal, Best of Everything, Best view from Bed
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A Study in Jade
Water Shapes, a magazine for Design, Engineering and Construction has dedicated their entire April 2007 issue to JADE MOUNTAIN. A "Study in Jade" takes readers through the design process from beginning to end with creator Nick Troubetzkoy describing the experience in his own words: "What I've tried to do with Jade Mountain is to reevaluate and redesign the basic concept of a holiday hotel experience. I wanted to create individualized spatial environments that would enable guests to forget about the furniture or the fact that they are in a hotel room - in essence, to forget about everything but experiencing the psychology of the space on an intuitive level. This is also why our traditional hotel corridor has become transformed instead into a long, suspended and elevated and dramatic private bridge that leads to your personal sanctuary, your personal infinity pool, your personal view, via your own personal bridge to infinity. My goal was to try and create public and private spaces and experiences that would give guests an ethereal, spiritual lift.
This is why the ceilings at Jade Mountain are all 15 feet high. There is no sense of a structure bearing down on you. We also eliminated an entire wall, opening the interior space to the glorious exterior. There also very few right angles, giving the spaces a freer-flowing geometry where everything moves toward the exterior environment and the amazing views. In sum, we aimed to give our guests the feeling of entering a private sanctuary that is fully integrated into the island's ecology."
All 24 rooms at JADE MOUNTAIN... have generously sized pools. The infinity-edged features- none of which is smaller than 400 square feet, and the largest of which is 900 square feet- not only put thimble-size plunge pools to shame, but they offer a unique perspective of the Caribbean island's famous pair of landmarks, the Piton mountains
- Sheila Gibson Stoodley, Robb Report, Best of the Best
The dawn sky was barely pink as I eased into the water and swam toward the Pitons. The shimmering liquid reflected the clouds, and I could make the silhouette of St.Vincent on the southern horizon. The most amazing thing about the scene, though, was this: I was still in my room. Just a few barefoot steps had taken me from bed to the luminescent pool that was the centerpiece of my Jade Mountain suite.
- Joan Tapper , The Sky 's The Limit, Caribbean Travel and Life Magazine
JADE MOUNTAIN was featured in the January 2007 issue of Travel and Leisure Magazine. "Walk into the living area and, it seems, you walk right into the Pitons themselves," writer Guy Saddy describes his arrival experience..
Sexiest Infinity Suite
In the Nov/Dec issue of BRIDES magazine, BRIDES BEST 2006 names JADE MOUNTAIN' s Sun sanctuary as the "Sexiest Infinity Suite" and includes ANSE CHASTANET as a wonderful Caribbean location for a wedding.
Set high on St. Lucia's Morne Chastanet, Jade Mountain - a resort within resort Anse Chastanet - is a hillside structure of beautifully crafted bridges, koi ponds and tropical plants carved into the mountain with breathtaking views of the Caribbean Sea.
- Jeryl Brunner, Mountain Masterpiece, Defying Convention in the Caribbean, Hospitality Design
Accusations of madness notwithstanding, Troubetzkoy has succeeded in building the resort on its own terms and after his own vision. " I had the luxury of being able to deliberate, but it made it difficult to plan ahead", he says. "Jade Mountain has a sense of being a work of art or sculpture. It metamorphosed until it took the shape it now has".
- Sheila Gibson Stoodley, Robb Report, Twin Peaks Rising
EMERALD AWARD FOR JADE MOUNTAIN
During the recent Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) held in St. Lucia this October, the highly coveted Counterpart International Emerald Award for high-end resorts combining a commitment to luxury and to the use of tourism to improve the destination, its people and the environment, went to Nick and Karolin Troubetzkoy for their new Jade Mountain at Anse Chastanet in St. Lucia. Counterpart president, Lelei LeLaulu, said the resort had vaulted to the top of the world's most exclusive properties for its use of recycled material, water, and its dedication to conserving the environment, going so far as to send resort managers to the rainforests of Guyana to select the trees for use. Top marks also went to the resort's treatment of staff and a very low turnover. On top of all this, said LeLaulu, was "a design of extraordinary vision and boldness." |
The Club at Jade Mountain opened its doors on Dec 20, 2006. The Jade Mountain Club with its celestial terrace right above is an exclusive retreat for Jade Mountain guests to enjoy a light meal or drink. The communal pool at the Jade Mountain Club features a kaleidoscope of glass tiles showcasing the various tile colors used in the Jade Mountain sanctuaries. |
..."Troubetzkoy has spent 30 years challenging the travel industry's most cherished beliefs. Rather than bowing to received opinion on how a hotel should be, he has preferred to draw upon St. Lucia culture, tapping the arcane knowledge of bush doctors, musicians and masons. At Anse Chstanet, playing with light and space, he created dynamic rooms, the "walls" of which were sliding jalousie shutters, allowing the shape to change at the whim of the guest. Accessibility was never a priority....."
- Julian Allason, Financial Times How to Spend It Magazine
..."Architect Nick Troubetzkoy has made certain that his art-filled Anse Chastanet Resort takes full advantage of St. Lucia's exotic visual appeal. The six-hundred acre former colonial plantation north of Soufriere has the Pitons for a backdrop and a quarter-mile namesake cove beach...
- The New Yorker Magazine
"The famous Anse Chastanet resort nestles into the steep green hillside, its individually designed suites decorated with dreamily erotic paintings. It's a jaw-dropping scene: in fact, the beauty is so profligate that most new arrivals seem mildly stunned. Most just roll onto the volcanic sands, where they remain, immobile as statues, fanned by passing butterflies. Many allow whole days to pass without even the merest quiver of activity. A sleek Swedish Amazon may hitch up her thong before gliding into the gently lapping water. A buffed fiance stands guard obver his betrothed as she dozes on a hammock, gently rocking her to and fro. Meanwhile, the most energetic guests stagger into the resort's spa for his-and hers Swedish -massage lessons.
-Tony Perrottet, Sunday Times
"It's a vista that silences with its power and mystique, visible from your wonderfully secluded porch, which is perfect for reading and snoozing once you breakaway from the view..."
- Patricia Schultz, 1000 Places To See Before You Die
JADE MOUNTAIN and ANSE CHASTANET are under the same ownership. Nick Troubetzkoy is a Russian-Canadian architect hailing from the west coast of British Columbia where he studied at the University of British Columbia and worked with or studied under noted west coast architects such as Ron Thom, Bud Wood and Arthur Erickson. Troubetzkoy came to St. Lucia in the early 70’s when he was offered to work with a group of architects in St.Lucia to design vacation villas on the island. What was meant to be a brief stint in paradise, turned into a lifelong passion for the island and its people.
When an opportunity arose to purchase ANSE CHASTANET together with partners after his arrival on St. Lucia, Troubetzkoy did not hesitate and became the Managing Director. Revolutionary thinking runs in Troubetzkoy’s Russian veins, and from the outset, he was determined to revolutionize conventional thinking as to what a hotel room should look like and why one hotel room should not be a cookie cutter duplicate of the next.
Troubetzkoy’s love for large open spaces built in harmony with nature was first realized in his redesign of ANSE CHASTANET, and now has reached a new level of sophistication in his creation of Jade Mountain.
Jade Mountain is Troubetzkoy’s unique declaration of love for St. Lucia’s stunning beauty. From the outset, it was his foremost desire to create a unique living experience that would not only take full advantage of the unforgettable views of St. Lucia’s Piton mountains but to essentially allow the onlooker to float into space and become one with them.
At Jade Mountain, Troubetzkoy’s artistic creativity is seen in every corner and at every turn. He has personally overseen every aspect of the project, no doubt causing some of his team members to pull out their hair in the process. Troubetzkoy was determined to not only create a unique experience, but to give each suite a completely different personality. Not only do the suites and pools all differ in shape and layout, the furniture, wash basins and even the toilets do not repeat themselves.
Troubetzkoy has taken a particular interest in the recycled glass pool tiles which were designed in a symbiotic collaboration with David Knox of Lightstreams, an equally unconventionally thinking tile manufacturer, who – appreciating Troubetzkoy’s design approach – created a stunning irridescent reflective pool tile to match Nick’s revolutionary creations with some of his own. Each suite has different color pool tiles... from ruby red to amber to plum and to amazing shades of green and blue.
As with ANSE CHASTANET, it was Troubetzkoy’s determination to keep as much economic benefit as possible in the region. The entire project was hand built with work men from the local community of Soufriere. Troubetzkoy has a great respect for the woodworkers and masons of St. Lucia. The quality of the massive hand set stone work and wooden craftsmen finishes speak for themselves.
To create the unique individualistic effect intended for each suite, which all feature 15ft high ceilings, additional furniture pieces were brought in from a variety of designers to supplement the locally made furnishings. These designers include Environment Furniture (www.environment-furniture.com), Janus et Cie (www.environment-furniture.com) and Box Furniture (www.boxfurniture.net). By using a vast selection of pieces from these fine furniture manufacturers, Troubetzkoy was able to individualize each suite with an eclectic selection of furnishings.
In addition, Troubetzkoy collaborated with European bathrooms manufacturers Hans Grohe (www.hansgrohe.com) and Duravit (www.duravit.com). The suites feature dramatic faucets, porcelain sinks and toilets which also are different in each room. They are designed by the manufacturers’ teams of noted European designers such as Antonio Citteiro, Andreas Haug, Andreas Dimitriadis, Tom Schoenherr, and of course the ever ubiquitous Philipp Starck.
The living areas of the rooms are finished with tropical hardwood flooring and trims harvested in an environmentally correct way. JADE MOUNTAIN’s technicians actually visited the Rain Forest of Guyana and personally chose which trees to be used. A multitude of hardwoods has been used including Purpleheart, Greenheart, Locust, Kabukali, Snakewood, Bloodwood, Etikburabali, Futukbali, Taurino, Mora and Cabbage Wood.
The interior walls are finished in a crushed blush toned coral plaster quarried in Barbados. The exterior is in massive rough concrete and imbued with locally quarried stone, with all the window openings framed with massive 3 inch x 18 inch tropical wood mullions and muntins which are in -filled with movable jalousie louvres. Flooring exposed to the weather is finished in quarried coral tile. |
Recent Jade Mountain Articles & Reviews:
TheBrilliance.com - St. Lucia with Missing Walls
CNN Money - 10 Honeymoon Hotspots
DailyCandy.com - Caribbean Queens
The Atlanta Journa-Constitution - Wild Beauty - Luxury Resorts Draw Travelers to St. Lucia
TravelConnect.co.uk - Top 5 Caribbean Retreats
Luxury Travel Magazine - Ultimate Romance in St. Lucia
JustLuxe.com - To Infinity & Beyond
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