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Minimalist Spa Seaside Retreat just Two Hours from Bangkok

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Guests entering Thailand’s Hôtel de la Paix resort ascend a grand flight of stairs as wide as a small hill.

The ultimate in minimalist elegance, the serene spa retreat offers a rooftop view out over Cha-Am Beach near Hua Hin.

The deliciously tactile, clean-lined contemporary airy spaces blend indoors with outdoors in both dramatic and casual ease.

Throughout, Thai designer Duangrit Bunnag embraces the breeziest simplicity of design.

Bedrooms are quietly contemplative, pared-down, refined.

The plain concrete walls soar high above silky white duvets.

The architects employ a surprising textural palette that varies through the resort.

Cool spa treatment rooms and baths are clad in limestone and proportioned like Roman baths, encasing the visitor in a total silence.

In the balmy and humid tropical climate, open pavilion spaces are the rule.

Limestone floors provide a cool respite from the tropical heat.

For sea worshippers; a simple boutique-chic pavilion is surrounded by tea light candles.

Concrete is used for bedroom walls but glossy black tile is employed to clad an exterior wall, richly contrasted with a stark white umbrella and red cusions.

The result is a stunningly sedative seaside resort that batters the senses with variety and contrast.