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Naked Stables

Huzhou, China · naked · Accessible Luxury

Grant Horsfield came out of Shanghai looking for open country and, in October 2011, opened naked Stables in a valley under Moganshan. Ben Wood Studio Shanghai lifted thirty Tree Top Villas into the pines and set forty rammed earth huts into the slope, 121 rooms, with a real horse yard in the middle of the reserve. It was the first project in China to earn LEED Platinum.

• 121 rooms
• Opened 2011
• Neighborhood: Moganshan
• Architect: Ben Wood Studio Shanghai
• Interiors: AIM

About Naked Stables

• The door is No. 37 Shangxiazhuang, Lanshukeng Village, Moganshan Town, in Deqing County: a pine and bamboo valley.
• AIM did the interiors. The huts are local mud in bands of yellow, orange, and red, under bamboo thatch, and the north side holds a teahouse and a pottery studio in round bamboo halls.
• Before the reserve, Horsfield and partners, including his wife Delphine Yip, rented eight farmhouses at Shanjiuwu, the hamlet also called 395, and opened them in 2007.
• The horse yard is for riding and grooming. Vegetables on the table come from the reserve's own organic farm.

History

Grant Horsfield, a South African working in Shanghai, went looking for open land and found Moganshan. In 2007 he leased neglected farmhouses at Shanjiuwu, with partners including Gabriela Lo, Evan Lai, and his wife Delphine Yip, and opened naked Retreats. naked Stables followed in the valley below, a purpose-built reserve by Ben Wood Studio Shanghai with interiors by AIM. Construction finished in September 2011 and guests arrived that October. The Zhejiang government has described it as the first project in China to receive LEED Platinum. The award year itself is not stated.

The setting

Lanshukeng Village is in Moganshan Town, Deqing County, under the mountain. The earlier farmhouse retreat sits up the valley at Shanjiuwu. Wukang, the county seat, is a separate drive to the east.

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