



Coming inside Kabine is a real journey… KOSMOS invites you in the fanciful universe of the Kaptain in the discovery of your somewhere else, and make you travel thank to its music and texts. Signed by Tom Goodwing even on the walls (leader of the band Kosmos) this lodge upon the trees offers unusual items and contemporary furniture. A real cabin for the journey you will create. Ready for the boarding?
Coming inside Kabine is a real journey… KOSMOS invites you in the fanciful universe of the Kaptain in the discovery of your somewhere else, and make you travel thank to its music and texts. Signed by Tom Goodwing even on the walls (leader of the band Kosmos) this lodge upon the trees offers unusual items and contemporary furniture. A real cabin for the journey you will create. Ready for the boarding?
The benefits of a hotel in the trees
Our lodges have the layout of a hotel suite, bringing you the same level of hospitality, comfort and service you would expect from a hotel. With a living area of 35 sq. m, nestled 4m high in the trees, all of our lodges are fitted with a fully equipped bathroom, Italian shower, separate toilets, and mini bar with hot and cold drinks to satisfy your desires at any time of the day. Each lodge extends into a 25 sq. m terrace that includes a private spa. Only “Efflorescences”, our lodge adapted for people with reduced mobility (PRM), is on the ground. It offers 2 terraces, one of which is above a pond, and has a complete spa: sauna and massaging jacuzzi. Everything has been designed to ensure complete privacy and allow you to fully immerse yourselves in nature.
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Design, brightness and openness
- Architecte : Isabelle Poulain
- Construction and Cladding : Rémi Becherel - Nid Perché
- Stairs : Laurent Garreau - Le Terrier
“Light, osmosis with the forest, transparency, space” inspired the design of our 18 lodges. Built on stilts, from wood species present in the surrounding forest – douglas, chestnut, oak – our lodges are real, warm and cosy suites. Their large windows and open terraces, equipped with a private spa, promote an harmonious dialogue between the interiors and the forest. And for the final touch, each lodge has been designed by a contemporary artist.
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Equipements
- King size bed
- Mini bar
- Heating system
- Double basin
- Standing Mirror
- Walk-in shower
- Hospitality products
- Indoor dining area
- Outdoor dining area
- Towels & Bathrobes
- Separate toilets
- Outdoor furniture
- Hair dryer
- Safety deposit box
- Cloakroom with walk-in closet
- Walkie-Talkie
- Ecological wooden speaker
- Flashlight
- Kettle
- Fresh herbs for infusions
- Espresso machine
- Jacuzzi

A relaxing Soak
Alone in the world… Slip into hot, enveloping water directly on your terrace, whenever you wish. A timeless moment of intimacy and relaxation.

Digital Detox
You will nevertheless find:
- a walkie-talkie in your room, connected to the reception, for all your requests
- a free WiFi connection and a large screen in the common areas of the hotel

Walk or not
Walking is the best way to get around and explore our forest and the woods that surround it (the W.H.O recommends 10,000 steps a day to be healthier!). However, electric carts are provided for ease of travel, in case of necessity or a momentary lack of energy… here everything is allowed.



































Interview


Tom Goodwing
Artist
Tell us what motivated you to join this project, how did you draw inspiration from the space and the nature around it ?
I didn’t hesitate to invest myself into a lodge creation when Anne-Caroline offers me to do it. Even though I am not a plastic artist I have always considered that my creations (songs, texts) were only a pretext to artistic collaboration. I always wanted to nourish my work from external universes, to confront it to another sensibility and sight. It was obvious to me to expand my universe to a preexisting space. I had the chance to visit Loire Valley Lodges throughout its opening in June 2020, I was caught by the lodges’ esthetic strength. It isn’t only a place where one can relax but a real carnal experience. Through the outstanding and seamless window bay, our entire body is diving into the forestry landscape. We find a kind of original calmness which is, up to me, the state of mind that an artist seeks to reach to express its creativity and imagination. When I was facing this for the first time I already that it was the ideal place for inspiration. I wanted everyone to feel this inspiration, especially those who are not looking for it. In every song I wrote for Kosmos there is this main idea that imagination is here to save us from a reality that became too much rational. I wanted my lodge to be a place where people could express their own artistic fiber in a fully free way. Above the environment, which is very inspiring, I wanted to create a timeless cocoon where we are pushed to live in a fictional relationship with reality. Welcomed by a mysterious but soothing voice, we are invited to get rid of our bells and stretch the sail. Then the landscape establish itself, or rather it doesn’t impose anything except its beauty and silence. We can see an engraved inscription on the wall. “Sculpt your cabin towards somewhere else.”. A newspaper on the door mentions a legendary Captain in a somewhere else that is close to us. Unusual items lead us to daydreams. A poem is engraved in a wooden panel. This Kabine seems to be a museum to this Captain. But has-he only existed? In this lodge, you are the artist. The piece of art is the landscape or rather what you are going to do with it. The Kosmos which you are going to draw the outlines. You are the Captain. Imagination is your vessel. This lodge is its Kabine.

How did you choose the piece of arts you wanted to put in the lodge?
With Anne-Caroline we were looking to furnish the Kabine with a 70’s “retro futurist” esthetic. Once more, it was a matter of improving the intemporal aspect of the place. Neither in the past nor in the future, we have the feeling to be in the middle of nowhere between reality and fiction. About the Kaptain’s items, I hunted them to personalized them at the image of the famous K. With the help of my friend Lola we engraved a poem and request towards somewhere else thank to a soldering iron.


Biography
Tom Goodwing
Tom Goodwing is graduated from HEC (Paris) in 2016. He decided to embrace a career in composition and music production, his passion since the beginning. Through his band “Kosmos” which he is the singer, songwriter and main composer, he released two singles and one extended play showing a pop and funky universe. Composed with funny and imaged texts, music is always a pretext to improve a strong visual universe whether on video clips, on their website or on their disc jacket. Obsessed by the idea of imagination, Tom is seeking to create fantasy world, Kosmos with constant increasement, which are nourished by the sensibility and the sight of a myriad of artist.
Tom, if you were...
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A forest of the world, you would be...
The Penn Avel Park
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A tree, you would be...
A chestnut tree
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A part of this tree, you would be...
The roots
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A forest dweller, you would be...
An elf
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A season, you would be...
Spring time
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A mushroom, you would be...
A shiitake
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A wind, you would be...
The furvent wind
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A smell, you would be...
The beach in winter