Four Seasons Debuts Naviva Tented Experiences
Photo Credit: Images of Four Seasons' new Naviva brand of luxurious tented experiences. Four Seasons
Skift Take
True, the world already has its niche glamping products. But when the traditionalist Four Seasons also blurs the lines between indoors and out by adopting tented experiences, hotel designers worldwide will take notice.
Future of Hotel Design
What you need to know about the look, feel, and functionality of experiential innovation at cutting-edge properties. (See our past stories.)Conventional hotel design doesn’t merely get left at the tent flap at Naviva, Four Seasons’ first luxury tented resort in the Americas. It gets tossed to the side with a metaphorical journey that begins by entering via a cocoon-inspired bamboo bridge spanning a deep forest ravine.
Opening officially on Thursday, December 1 in Punta Mita, Mexico, Naviva strives to immerse guests in 48 acres of lush greenery overlooking the Pacific Ocean from the canvas for a spiritual retreat – one that features just 15 accommodations celebrating canvas, wood, and water.
Luxury Frontiers was always the first choice of designers for Four Seasons Regional Vice president and Naviva General Manager John O’Sullivan.
“They have such a reverence for the culture and the people who live where they build,” O’Sullivan said. “Luxury Frontiers has a biophilic approach to design and s
