CasaMolle was born after taking a break in our lives for a period of three years, taking advantage of traveling around Chile and the world with our family, treasuring everything we loved, captivated and fell in love with the different places we visited. Full of energy and motivation upon our return, we decided to transform our weekend house into a hotel, so we could share this place so dear to us. We started small without a master plan. As we went along we decided and so after 4 years of very entertaining construction, decoration and landscaping, where every corner is full of love and dedication, we finished our hotel CasaMolle, which we are completely in love with.
CasaMolle is to choose quality, good taste, tranquility, peace, happiness, memories. It is to choose to stay, to be part of, to live, to dream, to remember and to treasure.
Karim & Marisol Image of casa molle.
In architecture and interior design we are mainly inspired by our landscapes, environment and valley, rescuing its colors, textures and shapes to achieve mimic and be part of it.
The millenary Molle culture has also been a source of inspiration when designing our lanterns, doors, signs and especially our amphitheater, which is a scale replica of a Molle pot. Its interior is decorated with loom woven blankets from the north of our country, torches, sheepskin and its exterior is covered with fretwork and handmade pieces in stoneware ceramics, elements that make this great vessel a true work of art where we perform endless activities such as ancestral ceremonies, rituals, weddings, etc.
The architecture of Casa Molle is a combination of constructions such as the altiplanic ones with low and wide adobe walls, creating small environments within a large space such as citadels, pyramidal roofs of totora, a material present in our surroundings, as well as the tar which we use for our enclosures, boundaries and the stone used in paths and some walls.
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The architecture of the hotel was based mainly on rescuing the existing resources in the place such as cattail, tar, stone, maicillo and adobe, taking into account the climatic conditions and making the most of its rich soils, creating orchards, various gardens with an endless number of native species, fruit trees, cacti and succulents, thus achieving an identity with its surroundings.
In the interior design of CasaMolle, we use noble and simple materials such as wood, wicker with organic textures such as linen, cottons and sisal in a range of earth and pastel colors.
