<h4>Located just metres away from Potato Head Beach Club, Potato Head Suites is a boutique hotel featuring 58 individually designed suites overlooking the Indian Ocean. </h4>

<h4>Every facet has been handpicked or handmade to reflect Indonesia’s artistic and cultural heritage. The authentic, handcrafted pieces that fill the hotel’s spaces give it a distinctive look while also supporting the indigenous communities and craftspeople of Indonesia. </h4><p>Contemporary design elements pay reference to the Balinese lifestyle and lush green gardens reflect the natural beauty of the island. Renowned Indonesian architect and long-time friend of the Potato Head family, Andra Martin has designed Potato Head Suites, with interiors a partnership between the owners and the Singapore-based design company Takenouchi Webb. The hotel is finished with Indonesian materials such as Balinese temple bricks, teak, hand-made tiles from Java and terrazzo made on site. </p><p>The hotel is intimate and serene, offering some of the largest living spaces of any hotel in Bali, in each of its categories. The suites are filled with curated artwork, handpicked furniture and cherished collectibles, many of them originally part of the owner’s personal collection. All suites boast outdoor spaces, whether balconies, secluded gardens or individual pools. The Rooftop Suites embody premium luxury and provide the ultimate escape. Measuring 268 sqm, these two-storey suites offer internal access to a rooftop garden complete with stunning ocean views, a spa bath and rain shower and dining and lounge areas, complete with their own bar. The crowning glory of the hotel is the The Katamama Suite, housing two bedrooms and a private rooftop garden with picture perfect ocean views.  </p>

<p>Our Suites are an oasis of peace and beauty, not only from the spacious suites—which come with access to the Beach Club and daybeds, gym and spa, plus in-room breakfast at no extra charge, a Zero Waste Kit and Anjat beach set—but the long, lush private pool, exclusive to its own guests. Akademi is the hotel’s experiential award-winning bar pouring curated craft cocktails and also offering workshops, while a new offering for each suite’s in-room bar can personalise it based on the guests’ intentions: wellness reset or party recharge. </p><p>With walls of textural temple bricks handmade in an ancient Balinese village and bespoke Jengki teak furniture recalling young Indonesian designers’ rebellious mid-century modern enthusiasm after independence from the Dutch, our Suites are a sanctuary for craftsmanship and artistry in every sense. Each element is imbued with meaning thanks to a fusion of ancient tradition with modern aesthetics. Warmth exudes as much from the custom furnishings, hand-woven, naturally dyed textiles, and intricate local handicrafts as it does our Potato Head family.</p>

<h4>About Andra Matin</h4><p>Renowned Indonesian architect and long-time PTT Family collaborator Andra Martin has designed Potato Head Suites, with interiors a partnership between the owners and the Singapore-based design company Takenouchi Webb. The hotel is finished with Indonesian materials such as Balinese temple bricks, teak, hand-made tiles from Java and terrazzo made on site. </p>

Potato Head Suites

<h4>Developed alongside Andreu Carulla, the Styro-Wrap Stool follows Potato Head’s thematic goal of creating beautiful objects from waste. Taking inspiration from the Balinese classic rattan-wrapped furniture, it represents a new-generation finish for furniture – linking traditional craft with sustainability.</h4>

<h4>About Andreu Carulla</h4><p>With materiality, craftsmanship and sustainability as goals, Andreu Carulla creates beautiful objects with timeless appeal.</p><p>Following his childhood dream of becoming an inventor, Catalan-born Andreu Carulla founded his eponymous product design studio in 2006, becoming one of the most versatile design firms working in Spain today.</p><p>Constant exploration of materials, old-school techniques and contemporary processes hallmarks the studio’s projects, which include furniture, tableware, lighting, creative direction, interiors and more.</p><p>Surrounded by an idyllic lake and an hour from Barcelona, a repurposed mill houses the designer’s studio and workshop, reflecting its Mediterranean approach to design.</p><p>Andreu Carulla also runs sister studio ACID and serves as Creative Director for El Celler de Can Roca, Isist Atelier and Calma.</p>

Stryo-Wrap Stools

<h4>Commissioned by Potato Head as a one-off piece, GeoStar is a meditational mandala based on sacred geometry based on sacred geometry and the geodesic crystallography of the late, great Buckminster Fuller in the 1950’s.</h4><p>It features human figures (symbolising humanity) surrounded by zodiac signs (representing the heavens), with a star at the centre embodying the shared heart connecting all things as one.</p><p>A mandala is a centering device, to draw you into the heart of things, your own heart, where a great musical order is revealed behind the apparent complexities of our lives.</p><p>Commissioned by Potato Head</p>

<h4>About Dr. Lawrence Blair</h4><p>Dr. Lawrence Blair is an English anthropologist, author, explorer and filmmaker. He is the writer, presenter and co-producer of the TV series Ring of Fire, an Emmy award nominee and winner of the 1989 National Educational Film and Video Festival Silver Apple awards. Born in England, he has been a resident of Bali, Indonesia for the past 35 years.</p>

GeoStar

<h4>The Green Lawn Chair is a reinterpretation of Faye Toogood’s original rattan chair and stool that was designed for Potato Head Suites & Studios’ public spaces.  </h4><h4>The new iteration uses BYO Living’s development of a woven material created from green plastic bottles. Not only is this material sustainable, but the textile produced is extremely rigid and durable.</h4>

<h4>About Faye Toogood</h4><p>Faye Toogood is a British artist working in a diverse range of disciplines, from sculpture to furniture and fashion.</p><p>Her works have been acquired for the permanent collections of institutions worldwide, including Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Fabergé Museum in St Petersburg.</p><p>Faye has been exhibited at Phillips de Pury and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Triennale in Milan, and D Museum in Seoul and National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.</p><p>She is represented by Friedman Benda in New York.</p>

Green Lawn Chair

<h3>New York City artist Futura2000, in collaboration with Potato Head, has created two sculptures titled 'Pointman – River Warrior,' which are to be unveiled in Singapore and Bali.</h3>

<h4>Created using waste collected across the island of Bali, Pointman speaks to Potato Head’s ideation that sustainability can be beautiful.</h4><p>Futura2000, initially lauded as a pioneering graffiti artist, is known for his ground-breaking use of abstraction in the 1980s and has always been progressive in his philosophy, methodology, and practice of art. Adjacent to his body of abstract paintings, he has developed a universe and lexicon around an otherworldly character: the Pointman. Over the years, Pointman has taken many forms across drawing, painting, and sculpture.</p><p>The collaboration with Potato Head sees Pointman emerge with a new mission in the materials of its design. River and ocean pollution has long been a central concern of Futura2000. Located on the Hudson River in New York City, the view from his studio of the Statue of Liberty is obscured by vessels transporting trash and free-floating river garbage. In reaction to this, the use of waste for the fabrication of the sculptures is a social commentary on the pollution crisis faced by both rivers and tributaries in New York City, and Southeast Asia.</p><p>The Singapore Pointman sculpture utilised 14,300 black and white grocery bags collected from Bali rivers by the environmental advocate organisation Sungai Watch. The sculpture will be unveiled at the National Design Centre of Singapore on November 26, with a party to commemorate the project.</p><p> The exhibition is a temporary stop on a world tour showcasing how waste can be reimagined creatively, and spread Potato Head’s ‘Good Times, Do Good’ mantra.</p>

<h4>On December 9, the courtyard of the OMA-designed Potato Head Studios in Bali will be home to the second River Warrior sculpture.</h4><p>For this Pointman, everything from motor oil bottles to discarded water gallon lids sourced by the community organisation, Yayasan Kakikita, were used. An event will bring together traditional Balinese ideals with Futura2000’s urban aesthetic. It will feature a performance by Australian dance company Chunky Move, talks, craft beers, and Balinese food stalls.</p><p>Futura Laboratories x Potato Head t-shirts, tote bags, and tumblers will be sold at both launches. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Sungai Watch to support their mission of cleaning Bali’s rivers.</p>

<h3>About FUTURA2000</h3><p>FUTURA2000 (b. Leonard Hilton McGurr, 1955, New York) is an abstract painter whose practice first developed in New York during the 1970s. One of the earliest graffiti artists to introduce abstraction into his work, FUTURA2000 was also among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary art galleries in the early 1980s. Early exhibitions of his work include presentations at Patti Astor’s Fun Gallery and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, as well as within the historic Times Square show of 1980, alongside Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rammellzee, and Kenny Scharf. MoMA PS1 brought the artists together again in its landmark 1981 exhibition, New York / New Wave. FUTURA2000 collaborated with the punk band The Clash during this time as well, designing their album art and painting on large scale canvases behind the band as they performed in concert.</p><p>In recent years, he created collaborative works with Takashi Murakami and exhibited them at Kaikai KiKi Gallery in Tokyo. He worked with Virgil Abloh on collections for Off-White and Louis Vuitton and stage visuals for the designer at Coachella.</p>

Pointman - River Warrior

<h4>Three Naga is a site-specific installation commissioned by Potato Head, created by the French-Javanese artist Ines Katamso and handcrafted by the Balinese weavers Pak Gus Ari and Bali Kui. Combining traditional handmade weaving with contemporary vision, the piece represents a mythological Balinese story of circular regeneration.</h4><p>A tribute to the cosmic principles of the universe - Three Naga is an abstract form that references a Balinese story of renewal, regeneration, and the importance of balance within 3 key earthly elements.</p><p>Three gods were called upon to visit earth, during a time of great environmental cataclysm. The gods took the form of three dragons (Naga), and worked together in order to reclaim, to regenerate, and to bring balance to all things seen and unseen. The three dragons are a description of the principles of the universe that provide prosperity to all creatures in the world, as well as symbolic ties to worldly life that are difficult to break</p><ul><li>Anantabhoga - Representative of Pertiwi, a form of earth soil and stone.</li><li>Basuki - Symbolic of safety and prosperity, the flow of living water. A liquid substance. </li><li>Taksaka - A depiction of the Bayu (air) and atmosphere that sends rain to earth.</li></ul> <p>Soundscape: Fraktal <br /><br /> Motion-responsive Technology: Helmi Hardian <br /><br /> Commissioned by Curator Pete Pepper Keen & Potato Head <br /></p>

<h3>About Ines Katamso</h3><p>Ines Katamso, born in Yogyakarta describes herself as “anak-campur” or a child of mixed-nationality. Her father, an Indonesian musician, her mother, a French tattoo artist, Ines spent the first ten years of her life in Java, before moving to France where she received her education in art and design. Shortly after graduation Ines then returned to her homeland in order to develop her ever-expanding creative practice first as a muralist followed by the creation of her own Interior design studio.</p><p>Starting painting on canvas was a natural process of self criticism. The artist views her decision to move from a large external wall to a scale perhaps more intimate, as an ability to explore a type of internal space from her feelings, away from an anxiety of the outside reality. Each artwork composed of geometric shapes, lines, and organic forms, at first glance may seem whimsical, though they express a much deeper internal process of self-reflection and discovery.</p>

Three Naga

<h2>Situated on the fourth floor of Potato Head Studios, Woven Clouds was created using reclaimed HDPE power fibres by Indonesian artist, Joko Avianto. </h2>

<h4>About Joko Avianto</h4><p>Joko Dwi Avianto was born in Cimahi, West Java, in 1976.</p><p> He graduated from Faculty of Art and Design (FSRD) of The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1996 before continuing his studies at the Master Program in the same college. Now he teaches sculpture at the Indonesian Arts College (ISBI) Bandung. </p><p>Joko is widely known for his installation works that form intertwined bamboo. As an artist he began to use bamboo material within non-conventional sculpture in 2003, in Bandung. This was the place where he then found a new technique that he called a module ⎯ bamboo broke ⎯ in which he could make any kind of bamboo-shaped object without having to split it the material. </p><p>Through the use of bamboo, Joko invites us to reflect on the depletion of bamboo forest vegetation and the impacts on social life surrounding the material; the extinction of bamboo culture, the loss of creativity and bamboo craftsmen; and the transition of the craftsman to the manufacturing industry. For Joko, bamboo is a symbol of his anxiety on the theme of wealth, and the destruction of Indonesian cultural diversity, by a process of industrialization which became the backbone of modern life today. </p>

Woven Clouds

<h4>Sandals salvaged from the beaches of Bali with a powerful message: “Everything we throw away comes back to us — via the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil we grow.”</h4><p> In its ongoing mission to provide Good Times and Do Good, Potato Head collaborated with award-winning German art activist Liina Klauss to demonstrate the reality of marine pollution. The artist created a large-scale installation at Desa Potato Head constructed from over 5,000 plastic flip-flops, all picked up in just six visits to beaches along Bali’s west coast.</p>

<h3>About Liina Klauss</h3><p>German visual artist Liina Klauss (1974) uses lost and discarded objects, found and re-contextualised within the natural environment. Liina translates rubbish into rainbows exploring the intersection of culture and nature and perceptions of beauty and destruction. She has found a visual language for the pervasive impact of humans on the natural world. In 2011 Liina started to make shockingly beautiful land-art from marine debris on Hong Kong beaches. Today Liina creates everything from delicate mosaics to large scale public installation, using colour-bombing techniques with marine debris as a medium.</p><p>Liina collaborates with schools, universities, corporations and communities, offering immersive experiences merging art, awareness and activism. She is known to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds, utilizing an artist’s perspective and positive creative action to raise sensitivity both for plastic pollution and the natural world.</p><p>Liina had her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong in 2013 and since then her environmental installations have been part of multiple festivals, art-shows and international conferences in South-East Asia.</p><p>At present Liina lives between Hong Kong and Bali, Indonesia.</p>

5,000 Lost Souls

<h3><i>Guardians</i> is a three-dimensional light installation created by Ubud-based multidisciplinary artist, I Made Arya Palguna.</h3>

<h4>The piece is inspired by Balinese penunggun karang shrines, which are also referred to as palinggih pangijeng. Constructed in yards and gardens outside many of the island's houses, these protective shrines serve as guardians of the land — or palemahan — and its inhabitants. Guardians is constructed of iron coated in green phosphor paint and adorned with neon flex LED lights.</h4>

<h3>About I Made Arya Palguna</h3><p>Born in 1976 in Ubud, Bali, Palguna first learned painting under his father, I Ketut Sudana, a well-known & respected painter in his own right. </p><p>He received his Bachelor's degree from ISI Yogyakarta in 1996. A versatile artist, his distinctive style appears in his paintings, sculptures and other three-dimensional objects, and installation art, even performance art and murals. He has exhibited extensively throughout Indonesia and abroad.</p>

Guardians

<h4>Big Dipper is a site-specific kinetic sculpture by Australian artist Michael Candy commissioned by Potato Head in 2023. Symbolic elements of biology and physics — the DNA helix and light waveform — allude to life’s origins from stars, representing the intersection between design, science and art.</h4><h4>Named after the constellation, Big Dipper alludes to the primordial origin of life from stars. Reflecting on our relationship with the world around, and above us.</h4>

<h3>About Michael Candy</h3><p>Michael Candy works with a vocabulary of robotics, hardware hacking, intervention and video. This didactic practice seeks to mediate the liminal realm that technology oppresses on the physical world. His installations and projects often emerge as social experiments or ecological interventions in public space.</p>

Big Dipper

<p><h4>A piece based on ecological awareness, The Womb is a bamboo sculpture by Indonesian artist Nano Uhero, who favours the material for its lower environmental footprint,   malleability and high tensile strength. </h4> <br /> “Bamboo is an inseparable part of Balinese social and religious life, let that be in architecture, ceremonies or other. This is a great source of inspiration for me in making art from bamboo. That said, there is an understanding for me that one of the characteristics of bamboo is that it can be applied to any form.  <br /> <br/>Bamboo is a solution to creating art that is environmentally friendly; the by-product of this process is not hazardous to the environment. Additionally, the shape of the work is inspired by the snail. The bamboo weaving in this piece is a metaphor for the unique differences each of our perspectives has of one thing: a tunnel that we go through together, walking slowly, all towards the same destination of betterment for the earth. </p>

<h3>ABOUT NANO UHERO</h3><p>I Wayan Sudarna Putra, AKA. Nano Uhero was born in Ubud, Bali 1976. He studied art at ISI (Indonesian Art Institute) Yogyakarta from 1994 – 2004, until the earthquake of 2006, then returned home to Ubud to further develop his artistic exploration. </p><p>Interpreting the paintings, sculptures and installations of Nano Uhero is like being reminded of the richness of contemporary aesthetics that refuse one single defined framework. Uhero’s work is in itself an eclectic code of various artistic combinations and systems.</p>

The Womb

<h2>Created by London-based designer Max Lamb for Potato Head Studios, each Max Lamb Chair is made from the recycled waste of 833 plastic bottles.</h2>

<h4>A modern day craftsman, Max Lamb is a furniture designer whose design sensibility is informed by his extensive knowledge of manufacturing techniques, respect for materials, and skill as a maker.</h4><p>A native of Cornwall, Max has been tinkering with objects and engaging with the physical landscape since he was a small boy. After earning a degree in three dimensional design from Northumbria University in 2003, Lamb went on to obtain a Master's from Royal College of Art in product design. By 2008 he had started his own practice, and was teaching on the industrial design course at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne.</p><p>Max explores both traditional and unconventional materials and processes, blending experimentation and rationale to create furniture and products that are both honest and intelligible. His work, described as a result of a process driven approach to design, has earned him the Hettich International Design Award (2004) and the Peter Walker Award for Innovation in Furniture Design  (2003), as well as collaborations with companies such as Deadgood and Sight Unseen.</p>

<h4>About Max Lamb</h4><p>RA modern day craftsman, Max Lamb is a furniture designer whose design sensibility is informed by his extensive knowledge of manufacturing techniques, respect for materials, and skill as a maker. A native of Cornwall, Max has been tinkering with objects and engaging with the physical landscape since he was a small boy. After earning a degree in three dimensional design from Northumbria University in 2003, Lamb went on to obtain a Master's from Royal College of Art in product design. By 2008 he had started his own practice, and was teaching on the industrial design course at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne.</p><p>Max explores both traditional and unconventional materials and processes, blending experimentation and rationale to create furniture and products that are both honest and intelligible. His work, described as a result of a process driven approach to design, has earned him the Hettich International Design Award (2004) and the Peter Walker Award for Innovation in Furniture Design  (2003), as well as collaborations with companies such as Deadgood and Sight Unseen.</p>

N*thing is Possible

<h2>Potato Head Studios has been designed in partnership with Managing Partner – Architect David Gianotten at OMA, the Dutch practice founded by Rem Koolhaas.</h2>

<h4>“The essence of Bali lies in the interaction between different cultures. Dedicated to both guests and the community, our design for the new building encourages exchange between different kinds of users and challenges the typical Balinese resort typology that highlights exclusivity,” says OMA’s David Gianotten. </h4><p>Each studio features furniture and amenities made from recycled plastics and planet-friendly materials conceptualised by celebrated British designers Max Lamb and Faye Toogood, whose work is brought to life by Balinese artisans using indigenous materials and techniques as well as Potato Head’s own Waste Lab, an R&D team dedicated to finding circular solutions.</p><p>Every experience on offer at Potato Head Studios has been carefully crafted by the community, for the community. Among them are sustainability workshops for adults and children at Waste Lab, Potato Head’s own streaming station, Headstream, which is set to broadcast talks and music programs from local artists and rising stars 12 hours a day, and Studio Eksotika – a curated library, listening lounge and co-working centre on the mezzanine floor. The entire building is fitted out with local, sustainable materials, as well as art pieces, ceramics, textiles and basketry from small-scale makers on the island. They wrap around a vast creative courtyard which leads to an amphitheatre for modern and traditional arts, a palm-lined swimming pool and, eventually, the sand, surf and sensational sunsets of Petitenget Beach.</p>

<h4>About OMA</h4><p>OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond. OMA is led by eight partners – Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia.</p>

<h4>Conscious waste management has long been a central concern of Potato Head. In our journey to zero-waste, we have implemented a number of initiatives to avoid the use, production and consumption of wasteful materials.</h4>

<h4>While the Desa has typically managed to elude styrofoam, in opening 168 rooms of the Potato Head Suites and Studios with OMA, we found ourselves with styrofoam packaging for 168 TVs.</h4><p>As a notoriously difficult material to recycle as well as a lack of infrastructure on the island, we looked outside the box to create solutions for the waste. Working alongside creatives and engineers, we have been able to reimagine styrofoam in ways which allow us to not only manage the Desa’s own styrofoam waste, but also the styrofoam waste gathered by local waste collectors, and the Desa’s staff in their own personal lives. In doing so, we have been able to create a resource for inspiration in recycling. </p><p>Transforming styrofoam into a working material in order to create our amenity products involves categorising materials into two groups: raw and supporting.</p><p>Our raw materials consist of upcycled styrofoam collected from local waste collectors and Desa’s staff, oyster shells gathered from our restaurants and HDPE plastics derived from bottle caps. These materials are melted down and mixed together into a styroshell dough before being cast into a hard template. </p><p>Our supporting materials include acrylic paint, paint thinner, plywood formworks, and stainless steel pumps. They are added to the malleable raw materials and allow for the physical structure and façade of the amenities.</p>

<h4>Over the years, our sustainability research and development team at the Waste Lab have worked alongside creatives to transform styrofoam into a range of materials which can be utilised for a number of products.</h4><p>Our first attempt of reimagining styrofoam led us to the casting process which produces a decoratively textured styroshell. The amenities derived from the styroshell  have become an iconic feature of the rooms at the Suites and Studios.</p><p>In later attempts of working with styrofoam, we created a ‘styro-wrap’ which is used with furniture and kitchen utensils in a wrapping process. This wrapping expanded the potential of styrofoam use.</p><p>Both aesthetic and functional, the bright pink styroshell facade of our soap dispensers, trays, vases and dust bins have become an inextricable part of the Desa’s identity. In having objects throughout our spaces which are both beautiful and sustainable, we feed the notion that making sustainable choices doesn’t mean compromise or sacrifice. Our mission is to make beautiful products which simply happen to be more sustainable. In doing so, we hope to create ripple effects in the way people think about their impact and consumer choices. </p>

Always changing and always celebrating local and global artists alike

Andra Matin :Potato Head Suites

Andreu Carulla :Stryo-Wrap Stools

Dr. Lawrence Blair :GeoStar

Faye Toogood :Green Lawn Chair

Futura2000 :Pointman - River Warrior

Ines Katamso :Three Naga

Joko Avianto :Woven Clouds

Liina Klauss :5,000 Lost Souls

Made Palguna :Guardians

Michael Candy :Big Dipper

Nano Uhero :The Womb

Potato Head x Max Lamb :Nthing is Possible*

Potato Head x :OMA

Potato Head :Styroshell Amenities

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