We took a garden as inspiration when we designed Greenhouse (GEN), a studio apartment in the heart of Gustavia, walking distance from the best restaurants, boutiques, and nightlife. It is part of the Lacour family estate, which comprises several uniquely designed suites and apartments around a tropical garden.

Inside the luxury rental property, there is a strong sense of easy island living. It is a vacation home where you can kick off your shoes and let your guard down. The interior continues the feeling of a garden, as the walls are painted Carriage Green. And when you open the windows, you can smell fragrant flowers and listen to birdsong.

Greenhouse is a simple place to simply chill out with a movie you have been wishing to see or a novel you have been wanting to read (but never had time for in your everyday life). It is a place to cook meals together in the well-equipped, good-sized kitchen—complete with a cute 1950s-style SMEG oven. We kept things calm to create a place for you to write your own story.

Laid out like a studio apartment, the kitchen, dining, living, and sleeping areas occupy the main room. The bed is California king-size with a cane bedframe. The bathroom has a walk-in shower and antique-reproduction bathroom fittings with a brass finish. The sleeping area has built-in wardrobes. The studio is fully air-conditioned, and has an HDTV with Apple TV and Netflix.

Greenhouse is also “green” in the ecological sense. There is a reverse-osmosis system for drinkable water in the kitchen, so there is no need to use wasteful plastic bottles.

Obviously, the studio is ideal for romantic getaways, but for larger groups, it can be rented together with the Swedish House (SWE), creating a compound with three bedrooms in total.