Boutique homeware label Piaule has opened a Catskills hotel featuring 24 minimal wooden cabins, an all-day dining restaurant, and a spa, set on an immersive nature reservewould ultimately lead to the opening of one of the most talked about hotels in the upstate New York region, but that is just what has happened with Piaule.
The line demarcating what’s indoors and outdoors blurs at the main guesthouse, where a check-in area, a retail gallery, an all-day dining restaurant and a spa are all housed under a dramatically angled zinc roof. Natural light floods through its façade of floor-to-ceiling windows, which seems to make the space’s white oak interior – featuring a dual-sided wood burning fireplace, Danish seating and floors made from the local bluestone – glow all the brighter.
Behind each cabin’s heavy metal doors, floor-to-ceiling windows, equipped with concealed screens that can be pulled out, ensure that guests can enjoy the fresh air. Matching black-out shades also guarantee a deep slumber, should you decide not to rise when the sun comes up.
have been designed with Kati von Lehman, and antique French stools were sourced together with Lichen NYC.‘The idea was never to create a “shoppable hotel” or “liveable showroom”, but it was paramount to us that no detail of the experience was overlooked. So every time we felt like we couldn’t find the perfect thing, we tried to make it ourselves or collaborate with an expert,’ explain the duo.