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Owner, Management Company, and Purchasing Firm
Atelier de Hotels Architecture Firm and Contractor
Kince Arquitectura, Cancun Interior Design Firms
Curioso, Chicago, and Francisco Hanhausen
Architecture & Design, Mexcio City Lighting
Diseño e Iluminación Lamda Engineering Mince
Arquitectos Kitchen Cocinas Fuego Spa Spa Arte

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MERCADO 19
Dining Chairs and Stools Marbol Industria Mueblera
Wall Sconces Flos Leather Sofa Restoration
Hardware Side Table Ad Hoc
CAFECITO
Coffee Table Four Hands Lounge Chair Expormim
Loveseat and Ottoman &Tradition Floor Lamp
Arteriors
LOBBY
Area Rug Armadillo & Co. Coffee Tables Marbol
Industria Mueblera and Four Hands Sofas and
Planters Restoration Hardware Pouf and Bean Bag
Gan Side Table Four Hands Wood Stool and Lounge
Chair Manmade Mexico Bistro Table Noir Lounge
Chairs Stua, Stellar Works, and Expormim Throw
Pillows Mexchic Floor Lamp Flos
CILENTO
Dining Chairs Pedrali and West Elm Dining Tables
Ton and Gubi Wall Sconce Meridiano Drapery Fabric
Samelson-Chatelane
KOPAI
Dining Chair West Elm Contract Dining Table
Marbol Industria Mueblera Lanterns Naomi Paul
NUUP SPA
Daybed and Lounge Chair Restoration Hardware;
fabric by Perennials Tub Apaiser Plumbing Fixtures
Brizo Area Rug Armadillo & Co. Tables Harbour
Outdoor and Four Hands

The trick, says Grondin, was "treating
this as a Yucatan project rather than a
Mexican project. We focused on what
[that] feels like." Consider the arched
brick ceiling in casual eatery Mercado 19
that recalls Mexico City markets, or the
cave-like Nuup Spa inspired by cenotes,
the natural pits formed by the collapse
of limestone bedrock. "It feels almost
oppressive," she says, "like being in an
underwater cave."
The project's finishing touch-and
highlight-are the 600 guestrooms. Here,
wood-beamed ceilings, beds angled to face

the windows, and the ubiquitous chukum
have been enlisted to cultivate a laidback
design sensibility, one that caused the owner
to cry when he first walked into the finished
model room. Seeing his dream realized after
years of only imagining it was the final piece
in a decades-long puzzle. "He was sitting
cross-legged in the lounge chair with tears
coming down his face," Grondin remembers,
"and he said, 'This is it. This is what I've
been [envisioning].'" hd
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GUESTROOMS
Doordrops Gray Rochelle Marble Area Rug Armadillo
& Co. Coffee Table, Loveseat, Bar Cart, Bathroom
Stool, Bed, and Headboard Marbol Industria
Mueblera Bedside Lamp DCW Editions Wall Sconces
Original concept by Workstead and Original BTC
Loveseat and Sheer Drapery Fabric Robert Allen
Lounge Chair Herman Miller Blackout Drapery Fabric
KnollTextiles Throw Pillow Restoration Hardware;
fabric by Sunbrella Plumbing Fixtures Brizo Side
Table emuamericas Daybed Dedon; fabric by
Perennials Lounger Restoration Hardware; fabric by
Perennials
CONVENTION PREFUNCTION
Sofas Original concept by Restoration Hardware
Lounge Chairs Stellar Works and Thonet Coffee
Table Four Hands Area Rug Armadillo & Co.

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