3 Designed Spas

Elemis Spa
The urban Elemis Spa at the St. Regis Bangkok (starwoodhotels.com/stregis/bangkok) designed by Kate and Paul Greenwood of studioaria, elevates every element to luxurious effect: lavish white leather adorns the reception and corridor columns while sand-colored carpet with double underlay gives sensuously underfoot. The changing room becomes a place to linger with a duplex of pools and waterfall, relaxation pods, hydrotherapy and individually lit dressing tables. Spacious treatment rooms incoporate Rasul chambers, where guests can bathe in heat, steam and clay.

Coqoon Spa
With a “treatment nest” and a smaller “shower nest” both hanging from a 100-year-old banyan tree, The Nest at Indigo Pearl Phuket’s Coqoon Spa (indigo-pearl.com), by Thai-based designer Bill Bensley, is a contrast to the resort’s industrial-chic look. Influenced by the spherical home of the weaver bird, synthetic fibers wrapped around a steel frame create porous walls that seem to breathe, enveloping you as if you were a baby bird.

The Edge
The Edge in Bali’s Uluwatu district (the-edgebali.com) offers a contrasting sense of sanctuary with cocooning, curving walls on one side and a bird’s eye panorama of the Indian Ocean on the other, in its single-room Spa. Dreamed up by Adria Lake of A.W.LAKE Spa Design & Concept, the spa’s short trip from the relaxation lounger to the treatment bed involves getting your feet wet: the floor of the treatment space is a shallow pool, bringing the feeling of the ocean inside and delightfully waking up all of your senses before the therapist has even started.