Hotel Leo

Hotel Leo

A boutique hotel on Jeju Island, designed as a series of dark, cinematic rooms that glow from within.

Studio Kimi led the interior design for three of the hotel's social spaces — a street-level café and bakery, a book-lined library lounge, and a glass-vaulted rooftop lounge. Each was conceived as its own world, connected by one mood: low light, warm fire, and deep, saturated materials.

The palette is intentionally moody — aged leather, dark stained oak, and stone floors set against living walls of greenery that climb every surface. Warm cove lighting and clusters of opal-glass globes do the work daylight usually would, so the rooms stay intimate from morning to night.

The rooftop is the quiet showpiece: a vaulted glass roof opens to Jeju's night sky and city lights, with open fire, hanging willow, and soft seating gathered beneath the greenery.