White Sail Hotel | Wallpaper*

The lobby is a grand triple-volumed stage set crowned by a peaked dome with striated light panels — (Image credit: Photography: JING Xu-Feng)

As capitalist ideals go, it’s difficult to beat a luxury hotel, much less one that is located within the compounds of a swanky yacht club. Which only goes to show just how hybridised China’s communist model has become.

Located in the southern province of Shenzhen, within easy nautical reach of Hong Kong, the Seven Star Bay Yacht Club is a symbol of China’s new(ish) wealth, its bijou harbour sprinkled with expensive floating trophies against a backdrop of low-slung tree-cloaked mountains.

Open to the public, The White Sail Hotel's vast interiors have been conceived by local firm Ronger Design and Consultants. The lobby, in particular, is a grand triple-volumed stage set crowned by a peaked dome with striated light panels.

Both bedrooms and public spaces are dressed in handsome, textured fabrics, bamboo accessories and clean-lined furniture, while the artwork and decorative tchotchkes take their cue from nautical and sporting themes.

All the rooms are orientated towards views of the marina. Oddly, for a hotel of this calibre, there is neither a spa nor in-house restaurant, so, for now, diversions are limited to lingering views of that incomparable backdrop of mountain, greenery, sky and water.

Bedroomsspaces are dressed in handsome, textured fabrics, bamboo accessories

Bedrooms spaces are Clean-lined furniture,rooms are orientated towards views of the marina

White Sail Hotel views of that incomparable backdrop of mountain, greenery, sky and water.

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7 Star Bay
Dongshan Community
Nan’ao Sub-district
Longgang District

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JING Xu-Feng

Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.