With this photographic project of architecture and interior, I had to work on an entire luxury hotel in Mui Ne, the resort area of Phan Thiet. This region is known in Viet Nam for its sand dunes and is a 5 hours drive from Ho Chi Minh City
The Takalau Resort offers two types of accommodation. An older part is built on the model of Vietnamese traditional houses. Interior decoration is also influenced by french style. The new part has modern residences surrounded by pools.
Each room has a personalized decoration that gives the charm to the resort unlike with standardized rooms of international hotel chains
The main difficulty was to keep a constant quality during the four days of shooting and a few thousand photos taken at the time of shooting and post production. The main idea is to make the space luminous and airy while keeping the charm of the rooms and their environment.
A photographic rendering choice of “clear line” that gives a chic 50’s style especially in the pictures of the modern residences.
For the October 2012 issue of ELLE Magazine Vietnam has ordered me a series of photos for their Lifestyle section. I had to photograph a place of Ho Chi Minh City which should reflect the french spirit of the magazine.
I sent some photo tests of a colonial villa where some furniture and objects were able to give it a soul. The editor agreed to follow my idea.
The remaining is a matter of sensitivity and light.
You decide in this article titled “Time Suspended” if the spirit of ELLE can be found in this house.
A series of photos of architecture and interior for a beautiful colonial house which is now a classy and elegant restaurant of Vietnamese cuisine in the center of Saigon. A large garden with flowers and trees allows customers to breathe a quiet and relaxing atmosphere.
To give a contemporary aspect to the place desired by the owner, Mr Ming, I use a white and clear lighting which emphasizes well the space and the volume of this building from the early twentieth century, whose architecture is still modern.
For intimate dinners or for receptions and cocktail parties in this exceptional setting, a single address for connoisseurs:
Restaurant Café IF
38 Dang Dung St., Ward Tan Dinh, Dist 1, HCM City Tel: 08 38.469.853 – RSVP: 0907.111.056
