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Vogue USA
April 2009

… Meanwhile, Brazil’s seaside town of Trancoso welcomes the UXUA Casa Hotel, a brand-new nine-bungalow compound made almost entirely out of recycled materials. Designed by Wilbert Das, the creative director of Diesel, the hotel has such rustic-chic touches as an abandoned fishing boat for a beach bar and eucalyptus shower heads. The piece de resistance, however, is the pool, embedded with 40,000 shimmering green aventurine-quartz pebbles. Rates: from $395, with breakfast: uxua.com.