• Faena tapped imaginative filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and his Academy Award-winning designer wife Catherine Martin as creative consultants. The result is elegant, Art Deco-esque and over the top.
• The experience starts as you walk into “The Cathedral,” an expansive great hall lined with the Saxony Hotel’s original columns (now gold-leafed), vivid floor-to-ceiling murals by famed Argentine painter Gatti and an intricately patterned mosaic floor made from 632,000 tiles.
• At the far end of The Cathedral, back doors open out into the terrace, where the hotel’s signature art piece — a 10-foot-high woolly mammoth skeleton encased in 24-karat gold by artist Damien Hirst — will take your breath away.
• See the service in action at the hotel’s elegant, palm-lined pool area (for hotel guests only) and beach club, Faena Playa, which is situated on 100,000 square feet of pristine white sand. Attentive staff is on hand to fetch sunscreen, towels, beverages and light bites.
• Rejuvenate at Faena’s 22,000-square-foot
Tierra Santa Healing House, a one-of-a-kind South American-inspired spa with direct access to the pool and beach. Bask in all of the amenities, including a coed wet room, an ice room, an herbal steam room, a waterfall therapy alcove and a sauna-like hammam.