Camissa House by JP de la Chaumette
Camissa House is a beautiful boutique hotel located in Cape Town, South Africa, designed in 2019 by JP de la Chaumette.
Description
Affording guests peace and tranquillity, Camissa House is a boutique hotel located in a greenbelt on the slopes of the city?s famous Table Mountain. The hotel is named after the river that runs alongside it and means ?the place of sweet waters? in the local tribal Khoena language. The site is a unique setting within the fringes of the city?s ?bowl?: a natural amphitheatre created by the mountain range.
Owner David Ryan is skilled at realising what gives Cape Town visitors a unique private perch from which to sightsee (or to hide out). For the brief to architect Lauren Bolus of Fabian Architects & Make Studio, David used his insights from his other hospitality sites such as the city?s MannaBay and Silvan Safari in Sabi Sand Game Reserve. These insights included that guests spend less time in their bedroom when visiting Cape Town and so more emphasis was made on creating visually and spatially distinctive public areas such as the breakfast atrium and rooftop bar. Whilst Camissa House boasts all the modern comforts that a hotel should, it also boasts all the comforts of home. The former building was, in fact, a six-bedroom house, which Fabian Architects & Make Studio reconfigured on the same footprint whilst also undertaking the interior design. The result is that no two suites are the same, maximising the panor...
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