Hide And Seek
L'Officiel India|May 2019

A confidential hideaway for Hollywood stars, a dream come true for its founder. This hotel is making its guests go weak in the knees.

Delphine Valloire
Hide And Seek

Cuixmala, Mexico combines the power of the Pacific Ocean, the exotic nature of its natural reserve, with zebras, jaguars, crocodiles or antelopes. The abundance of its hanging gardens, its architecture, and its decoration is something to look forward to. Curvaceous and mysterious, the road that leads to Cuixmala from Puerto Vallarta crosses a dense, impenetrable jungle, and soon you are hypnotized by these meanders with the feeling of entering another dimension. A labyrinthine in real, nestled in the heart of a natural reserve on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The darkness invading the landscape indicates that we must let go and let ourselves be carried by the tropical heat.

Impossible not to think of Xanadu, the mythical property in Citizen Kane. This grand palace, nicknamed the Loma, as well as these multiple satellite bungalows and villas, were designed in 1987 by Robert Couturier, an architect hired by Sir Goldsmith. For two years, thousands of workers have worked on this virgin land to build a gigantic set that borrows its lines as much from the Mexican architecture as from the cultures of India and other countries visited and loved by the billionaire Franco-English. Couturier also designed the renovation of Hacienda de San Antonio, sister property of the Cuixmala near Comala.

This former coffee plantation, founded in the nineteenth century, was bought by Sir James Goldsmith in the late 1980s. He reinvented the place with the help of his daughter, Alix Marcaccini, who oversaw the decoration. She recalls, “I visited many old Mexican homes to inspire myself. For Hacienda, I found embroidered silks of animals in the markets of India, fabrics, and ceramics in Guatemala and Mexico, and the big mirrors from Morocco. My father was very involved in all this, very motivated. I remember drawing the Hacienda pool on the floor with chalk. The orange color of the walls at Cuixmala and the dark pink of the Hacienda are his choices.”

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