"Desa Potato Head turns colorful plastic trash into high-design furniture, jewelry, and more. In the Petitenget neighborhood of busy Seminyak on the island’s western coast, Desa Potato Head consists of two hotels and a handful of restaurants. It began in 2010 with the debut of the now-iconic Potato Head Beach Club, which sits behind a mosaic of 6,600 recycled wooden shutters. Indonesian architect Andra Matin designed both the venue and Potato Head Suites, which opened as Katamama in 2016. Inside a building fashioned out of 1.8 million hand-pressed terra-cotta bricks, the 58 suites are decorated with midcentury-inspired, Indonesian-crafted furnishings and locally hand-woven textiles. The 168-room Potato Head Studios, an oceanfront building designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA, debuted in 2021 and features contemporary furniture made of recycled materials by British designer Faye Toogood and Catalan designer Andreu Carulla. The pink facade gets its hue from the powder of salvaged broken bricks." - Kathryn Romeyn
