A special lodge because a tree passes through the patio. All in black and white, UZUME offers you a cocoon of sweet and noble materials so that the only color palette is that of nature. You will find in your walk-in Italian shower the artistic expression of Jacques Bosser : a creation of ceramic tiles just for you. The tableware of this lodge is also Jacques.
A special lodge because a tree passes through the patio. All in black and white, UZUME offers you a cocoon of sweet and noble materials so that the only color palette is that of nature. You will find in your walk-in Italian shower the artistic expression of Jacques Bosser : a creation of ceramic tiles just for you. The tableware of this lodge is also Jacques.
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
Jacques Bosser
Plastic Artist
Tell us what motivated you to join this project, how did you draw inspiration from the space and the nature around it ?
The design of the rooms, their structure, their architecture reminds me of the architecture of traditional Japanese houses, the “garden houses”. Unlike Western houses where you see the garden through a window, a door… the garden is always outside and requires a transition to access it. While in Japan, the garden is part of the house. It seems to me that the lodges here were designed and built on this very strong idea that the forest must enter the room, which I feel deeply. The trees that penetrate the place and are part of a whole. I really have this feeling of the forest that is present around friends also inside. I like not finding this rupture between the inside and the outside, being in a whole. It is very restful for our brain which feels free to walk where it seems good and to have a free look to enter or leave without obstacle. I also like the idea that the interior atmosphere, the decoration itself will be changing, that it will live the seasons like nature, that the interior landscape will change. In the lodge you are in a landscape in movement, in a forest that lives, you are in the living. You feel alive there. It is a unique experience for Westerners to grasp nature in this way.
How did you select the works that you wanted to integrate this place ?
I wanted to install works related to this notion of living nature, through paintings and photo-paintings more abstract, where everyone can dream in the same way as on trees. Like the lodges, I hope that my works will be open to interpretation, that guests will allow themselves to travel in the paintings. In this case, I have the feeling that the painting is more suitable than my more figurative photos, which gives an immediate indication. I want my works to be part of this journey to the land of the senses offered by Loire Valley Lodges.
Biography
Jacques Bosser has developed a special relationship with the colour, the signs, searching in each motif for their symbolic significance.
Jacques Bosser has developed a special relationship with colour, the signs, searching in each motif for their symbolic significance, decrypting the language of the tissues as others are interested in the masks. This artist, painter and photographer, plays as much on the nudity as the adornment. Through the very elaborate fixed poses of his models, his great portraits on cibachrome are plastic compositions of impeccable aesthetic rigour. From BTK Projects to Wax or even Héol, the artist explores the shimmering and coded world of traditional fabrics: kimonos from the Kabuki theatre endorsed by the muse Sue of Lucian Freud, boubous draped in wax from his series Wax Spirit, Hairdresses of bigoudens of Héol… He inherits and diverts in his own way this art of the representation of the garment which, from the pleats of the Greek tunics to the delicate lace of a Titian, obsesses Western art. But he is not content to seize, nor even to stage it externally, like costumes, his attire of seduction or power. It also happens to interfere in the pattern and at the same time as a weaver on his trade, Jacques Bosser invents his own pictorial writing, a kind of personal heraldry.
Jacques Bosser is an important French contemporary artist exhibited in France and abroad.
Jacques, if you were...
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A forest of the world, you would be...
The rainforest
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A tree, you would be...
A Baobab
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A part of this tree, you would be...
Its roots
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A forest dweller, you would be...
A wild cat
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A season, you would be..
Spring
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A mushroom, you would be...
A shitaké
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A wind, you would be...
Trade winds
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A smell, you would be...
The smell of rain on the warm stone
