Dharmawangsa Jakarta

The Dharmawangsa Jakarta was born out of the dream to create a hotel property that would complement the residential area of Kebayoran Baru in terms of architecture, scale and utility. It needed to fit in style and philosophy to its environment; to be uniquely Indonesian in character. Our Luxury Hotel in Jakarta Indonesia would exemplify the Indonesian aspiration to be thoroughly modern but very Indonesian at the same time. Key elements guided every aspect: Luxury expressed by understated elegance, grandness expressed by humility of the spirit and, the carefully thought out facets of scale and balance. The result is in the freshness that blossoms spontaneously and a thorough absence of pretensions. The architecture of our luxury Jakarta hotel was thus conceived as a new and contemporary interpretation of 1950s Kebayoran Baru, which in turn was, at that period, an interpretation of 1920s Jakarta. Here, is a matched set of buildings that are indigenous to the site. Together they form a tropical oasis of green and alabaster; a far cry from the chaos of commercial and westernized Jakarta yet only 10 minutes away from its financial hub. The scale employed throughout is of residential proportion, not at all like a city hotel, the organization of spaces totally domestic. Dharmawangsa was an 11th century Hindu King from East Java. It was he who laid the foundations of the great empire of Majapahit, credited with ushering in the Golden Age of Java. This was when the country gloried in political prowess, civilization, art and culture. The interior design of The Dharmawangsa Jakarta Hotel is a tribute to the extraordinary artistic achievements of Majapahit culture. The designers in the decorative wall lights and ceiling fixtures reinterpret Surya Majapahit, a recurring theme used by virtually all tribes throughout the Indonesian archipelago. It reappears in the shape of the successive yellow marble disks inserted in the floor to reflect the progress of the Surya a Sanskrit word for the sun across the sky and more subtly in the design of carpets, furnishings and decorations. Against the grand scale of the Lounges of The Dharmawangsa Jakarta hotel emphasized by the designers with cornice designs of ethnic patterns, silk panels of subdued colors in

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