THIÊN Y – HUẾ CITADEL

- HUẾ CITADEL Villas & Hotel -

- HUẾ CITADEL Villas & Hotel -
Where man, city, and nature exist in harmony
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Where inside and outside fade into one another
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Where water, wood, stone, or earth are always under our fingers and feet
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Where Matter, Concept, and the Human Hand coexist around us
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Where today follows in the wake of yesterday, and this flux carries us gently toward tomorrow
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Where it is about Here — Vietnam, Huế — and about Today
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Huế Imperial Cuisine

Hue has one of the most interesting and distinctive cuisine of Vietnam, partly as an heritage from imperial time and court customs, carved and served as a spectacle, and partly rooted in Central region popular specific dishes.

Top Hue’s chefs skilled at imperial cuisine are invited to cook for our guests in Thien Y Villas

court music

Hue and the central is a place of flowers, poetry and love, sang everywhere” wrote a European traveler in late 19th century. Music and singing is as well very specific and attractive as a valued heritage here. Court music is played both in large orchestra and small ensembles, while folk song is very often melancholic and explores the depth of romantic soul.

Local imperial music artists are at home at Thien Y and frequently practice their art from the wooden bridge.

Art at Thiên ý

Thien Y benefits from a generous loans from the Huế Trust for Ancient Art through our parent company, LOR Vietnam. While we are not a museum in any way (!), these things full of life & soul are there around us to please both sense and minds.

“The art of mosaics: making stone speak from Rome to Hue”

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“Seeing through iron”

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“Men in front of God(s)”

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“Of glass and light”

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“Animals: a link from nature to the spiritual world”

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“Earth Shaped by man : beautiful ceramics”

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“The metal of origins and eternal rituals : bronze”

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“An antique skill maintained in Asia : delicate wood carving”

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“With us since the dawn of times : weaving, From vegetal and animal”

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“Surrounded by beauty & meaning: adorned walls, ceilings, floors…”

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“Furniture rooted in tradition(s)”

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“Metamorphosis: fluidity between the three reigns”
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“Objects of life and meaning”
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City... Country

We are in a city — the country’s former capital.
Yet nature is everywhere present:
mountains on the horizon, wild
beaches a few kilometers away. In the Citadel especially,
lakes and wide planted avenues abound, and no house may rise higher than “the King’s Gate.”
Even agriculture is present within its walls. An answer to our urbanistic dead ends?

Light Dark

The modern is about transparency, glass facades, etc while classical taste contrasts interior & exterior. We cultivate
the local tradition of being never fully inside nor fully outside but always in transition, partly inside and partly outside. Latices, screens, windows with no glasses, furnished gardens, balconies with carved railings, ornate pergolas…

Above, Below Us

If, of the celestial and terrestrial deities, we bow only to the former and reject the latter, will our world remain in balance? Like the Ancients of both East and West, we do not raise concrete as a shield against chthonic powers, but lay handmade bricks directly upon the soil so that this communication may endure: earth on earth, upon which the human foot rests.

A human World

If our homes are “machines to live in” and all that surrounds us is concept directly informing matter without the mediation of artisans,
are we not machines ourselves?
Modernism speaks of functionalism; we prefer to feel that the idea, the work of the artisan, and the matter transformed have dialogued and danced together — a ballet that remains present every day before our eyes through carvings, wooden constructions, handmade ceramics, and mosaics. It is an animated and human presence that enriches the soul.

all heirs

Our collective heritage is the very fabric of our lives, and the same benevolent forces that shaped our forefathers’ lives also shape ours — so long as we remain open to their spell.

Huế

Huế — and Vietnam — stands at the confluence of Europe and China, while always remaining itself. A dynasty that cultivated relations with Europe and established its legitimacy through the emulation of Chinese ritual forms nevertheless remained rooted in the most ancient local traditions. Though our creations are modern and innovative in style, the spirit that inspires them rises from the past and from the soil upon which they stand.
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