The Singapore Version makes the case for opulence

Ian Schrager’s world fleet of ever-expanding Editions reveals no signal of slowing down. The resort impresario, who turns 77 in July 2024, presently presides over 19 properties – from West Hollywood to Madrid and Shanghai – with not less than three within the works – a none-too-shabby displaying for a model that solely launched in 2010.

Set on the quieter western finish of Singapore’s fabled retail strip, Orchard Highway, the low-slung, 204-room pile, clad in bronze and glass, is the work of the Israeli architect Moshe Safdie and native studio DP Architects.

The Singapore Version: grandiose however playful and large on biophilic design

Because the resort model’s first property in South East Asia, expectations have all the time been excessive for The Singapore Version, and on each metric, the resort doesn’t disappoint.

In dressing the cavernous interiors, Hong Kong-based studio Cap Atelier cleaves near the Version’s ‘millennial-luxe’ playbook, with acres of white stone and Calacatta marble, a swathe of gold right here and a splash of scorching pink and Yves Klein blue there, and finishes the ensemble with dense greenery by means of biophilic partitions and a glass-clad conservatory on the mezzanine flooring, and an enormous courtyard backyard on the bottom stage.

If the general public areas are playful and grandiose of their scale and colors, the visitor rooms are virtually monastic of their blinding all-white minimalism. To not neglect mentioning the white rugs and hand-sewn damask throws, white oak flooring, and white linen upholstery – certainly a supply of a lot sighing by housekeeping.

For stressed visitors, there are diversions aplenty, not least a small however completely curated reward store and a mood-lit labyrinthine spa that includes thermal his-and-her plunge swimming pools and ice fountains. In the meantime, actually staking the excessive floor is a formidable 43m rooftop pool – a scaled-down facsimile of the Instagram-famous roofline on the Marina Bay Sands throughout city, which Safdie additionally designed – that hyperlinks the Version and its eponymous branded personal residences.

And in a metropolis the place resorts stand or fall on the calibre of their meals and beverage shops, the Singapore Version greater than holds its personal with a clutch of good eateries and bars, together with Fysh, the Australian chef Josh Niland’s first abroad outpost – a grand high-ceilinged eating room furnished with inexperienced velvet banquettes, white marble tables, a inexperienced marbled bar, and a head-turning tapestry portray by British artist Christian Furr.

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