Nature or urban life – the Park Lees Hotel in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, offers both. It is situated in a beautiful park just 300 metres from the Rueifong night market, under 2 km from the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the Kaohsiung Fudingjin Baoan Temple, and three minutes from the subway and the 30-minute ride to Kaohsiung International Airport. The thirteen‑storey hotel, which opened in summer 2017, has over 120 luxuriously furnished rooms and is ideal for both tourists and business travellers.

The elegant interior design takes its inspiration from the tranquillity of the park in the heart of the city. The architects CJ interior design from Kaohsiung opted for a minimalist style focusing on understated naturalness, pure materials and handicrafts. All rooms are in harmonious warm colours with organic flowing forms with white highlights, while the large floor-to-ceiling windows flood the rooms with daylight and the soothing greenery of the park. In the bathrooms, which have grey-glass sliding doors, the natural look is continued with Villeroy & Boch porcelain stoneware wall and floor tiles. MY EARTH offers a ceramic version of structured natural stone with all its features and rich detail and a large range of colours and designs. The LUCERNA range has a distinctive natural stone look with the surface structure of slate and multifaceted marbling. The 35 x 70 cm and 30 x 60 cm rectangular formats are laid horizontally on the wall in a brickwork pattern, giving the rooms additional width and a refined and lively impression.