UXUA Casa Hotel & Spa

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"In 2022, Dutch trend analyst Lidewij Edelkoort dedicated a book to Brazil’s famed bohemian bolt-hole UXUA Casa Hotel and Spa, naming it UXUA Utopia: A Very Gifted Guesthouse. Founded in Bahian surf town Trancoso in 2009 by Dutch creative director Wilbert Das and American activist Bob Shevlin, formerly of Italian jeans brand Diesel, UXUA was both a paean to magical homestays and an inclusive craft commune that raised up the work of Pataxó and Afro-Brazilian artisans. Sixteen years on, Das and Shevlin are still reaching for utopia with their planet- and people-forward ethos. In 2023, they opened another positive-impact project, UXUA Maré: three upcycled farmhouses, conserving a 15-acre coastal plot of Atlantic Forest." - Jessica Sulima