Seventy-Three Villas, Three Vernacular Traditions

Arnaud Zannier spent months travelling Vietnam to study how its people built their homes, and every villa here answers to one of them. Up on the slopes, rooflines follow the Ede longhouses of the Central Highlands, a form traditionally extended by a room with each new generation. On the beach, villas take after Cham coastal houses, finished in painted driftwood, cream and cool linen. Elsewhere, stilted villas borrow from the homes of local fishermen. It is the largest Zannier hotel, yet space and privacy keep it hushed, across 98 hectares that remain almost entirely wild. The Michelin Guide has since awarded it Two Keys.