Rising from a private island on the tranquil waters of Yudong Lake in Yulin, Guangxi, Jolie Vue Hotel Yulin (璟象大酒店) opened in November 2020 as one of the most distinctive resort addresses in southwestern China — and in August 2025, it became Yulin’s first officially rated five-star tourism hotel. Developed and self-managed by the Fuda Group, the 190-key island retreat fuses Lingnan architectural tradition with subtropical resort sensibility, delivering a complete leisure and business destination that is simultaneously private island escape, luxury conference venue and family holiday resort. Zhobai was appointed as the one-stop hotel furniture FF&E supplier for the project, producing and installing the complete furniture programme across every guest-facing space — from lakefront guestrooms and panoramic suites to the lobby, dining halls, banquet facilities and wellness centre.
Project Overview
The Jolie Vue occupies a unique island site on Yudong Lake in Yulin’s Yudong New District — surrounded by water on all sides and connected to the mainland by a covered bridge that delivers guests directly to the lakeside promenade. Its 190 rooms and suites are arranged to maximise lake views: 180-degree Yudong Lake panoramas from every lakeside room, direct sightlines to the Garden Expo Park and the distant hills of western Guangxi, and a building orientation that captures the lake’s reflective light at every hour of the day. The hotel’s island setting means that furniture quality and environmental appropriateness are non-negotiable: pieces must withstand the humidity and salt air of a permanent waterfront environment while projecting the quiet confidence expected of a five-star government reception hotel.
Design Vision: Lingnan Heritage Meets Subtropical Light Luxury
The interior design language draws on two complementary traditions. The first is the Lingnan (岭南) architectural heritage of the Pearl River Delta and its extension into Guangxi — expressed through carved limestone screens, terracotta tile accents, latticed timber panels and an indoor-outdoor spatial philosophy that dissolves the boundary between garden and interior. The second is a contemporary light-luxury vocabulary appropriate to a new-generation resort: clean geometry, a warm neutral palette of sand, pale ash and washed stone, and a deliberate restraint that allows the lake view — always visible through full-height glazing — to remain the dominant visual element of every space. Zhobai’s design collaboration team worked from the earliest concept stage, translating this layered brief into a furniture specification that is sophisticated in detail yet unobtrusive in presence.
Lobby & Public Spaces
The hotel’s main lobby is a double-height arrival hall that opens directly toward the lake — a spatial sequence designed so that the first thing every arriving guest sees is water. Zhobai supplied the complete lobby furniture package: a reception counter in honed grey stone with a backlit translucent panel and brass-capped edge detailing; a central lounge arrangement of deep-cushioned sectional sofas in warm ivory performance linen with jade-green botanical-print scatter cushions; a series of low marble-top tables in pale gold bases; and individual rattan-back accent chairs placed near the glazed lake frontage to capture the best view positions. All upholstered lobby pieces use Zhobai’s hospitality-specification high-resilience foam core, rated for commercial use cycles far exceeding the industry standard for a five-star property.
Guestroom Furniture Programme
All 190 rooms begin at 40 m² — a generous baseline that gives Zhobai’s furniture programme room to breathe. The lake view is the property’s primary commercial asset, and every furniture placement decision was made with the view as the reference point: beds oriented to face the water, desks positioned at the window, lounge chairs angled toward the lake.
Lake View Rooms (King & Twin)
The lakeside king and twin rooms are the hotel’s workhorse category, and Zhobai specified furniture that performs reliably over a long commercial life while reading as genuinely luxurious on arrival. The bed platform is crafted from pale ash with an upholstered headboard in a subtle botanical weave — warm, textural and well-suited to the room’s subtropical palette. Integrated bedside units carry wireless charging pads and recessed reading lights. Twin-bed rooms use a mirrored furniture layout with matching individual bedside tables and a central console that serves both beds equally, ensuring the twin configuration feels as considered as the king.
Business & Executive Rooms
The hotel’s business and executive rooms serve Yulin’s growing corporate and government delegate market. Zhobai specified a full-width work surface in warm stone composite running beneath the window — a desk that is practical for a full working day while offering an uninterrupted lake panorama that makes extended stays genuinely pleasurable. A high-backed ergonomic task chair in cognac leather and a separate lounge chair in natural linen provide the work-rest balance that extended-stay business guests require.
Room Details & Amenities
Across all standard room categories, Zhobai supplied a coordinated set of ancillary furniture pieces that elevate the guest experience: a lounge corner with a single rattan-framed accent chair and a low side table for the room’s private sitting zone; a dedicated coffee and minibar unit in lacquered cabinetry with integrated refrigerator housing; and a full wardrobe and entry corridor unit in pale oak veneer with a mirrored door panel that amplifies the room’s natural light. These individual pieces were designed as a coherent family of objects — consistent in timber tone, hardware finish and proportion — so that even the smallest detail reads as intentional.
Balcony Furniture
Every lake-facing room at the Jolie Vue is fitted with a private balcony — a non-negotiable design feature of the property’s island concept. Zhobai furnished all balconies with a two-seat teak conversation set: two lounge chairs with moisture-resistant cushions in a stripe-weave outdoor fabric, and a slatted teak side table sized for a breakfast tray or evening drinks. The teak is finished in a UV-stable marine oil that handles the year-round humidity of a lakeside environment without requiring guest maintenance.
Bathroom Design
A signature amenity across all room categories is the oversized soaking bathtub — positioned at the window wherever room orientation permits, creating an immersive lake-view bathing experience that has become the hotel’s most-shared social media moment. Zhobai supplied freestanding bathtub surrounds in honed white marble composite, wall-hung vanity consoles in moisture-resistant solid surface material with integrated basins, and full-height LED mirror panels with touch-sensor controls. The wet-dry separation design across all bathrooms uses Zhobai’s custom-profiled shower screen frames in a brushed champagne gold finish that coordinates with the room’s brass hardware throughout.
Suites (70–Presidential)
The hotel’s suite programme ranges from 70 m² lake view suites to the Presidential Suite with panoramic lake terraces. Zhobai furnished the one-bedroom suite living rooms with a custom three-seat sofa in a botanical-print performance velvet, a round marble-top dining table for in-suite entertaining, and a bespoke console table in dark walnut with hand-inlaid brass detailing behind the sofa. Suite entry corridors are treated as curated arrival sequences — Zhobai supplied custom wall-console tables in lacquered cabinetry with ceramic display surfaces and coordinating artwork-lighting shelving — transforming the functional transition from door to living room into a deliberate moment of luxury.
Family & Kids Suite
The hotel’s family-focused rooms include bespoke children’s furniture elements produced by Zhobai: a bunk-bed unit in a rounded, safety-first profile with integrated ladder and guardrail in natural birch, a low play table with stool seating sized for younger children, and a dedicated kids’ storage unit with picture-rail display bars — all manufactured to EN 71 toy safety standards for surface finishes and edge radii, ensuring the family suite delivers genuine peace of mind for parents alongside the playful aesthetic.
Dining Furniture
The hotel’s three food-and-beverage venues each required a distinct furniture character. The Jingxiang Chinese Restaurant — the hotel’s flagship dining venue serving Yulin-style cuisine, Cantonese dim sum and fresh seafood — was furnished with a formal round-table programme: dark lacquered dining tables with lazy-susan inserts in hand-polished brass fittings, high-back dining chairs in deep red silk-weave brocade with carved solid wood frames, and a series of private dining room furniture sets for the large VIP suites that accommodate up to 20 guests. The restaurant’s booth seating along the perimeter uses Zhobai’s custom curved banquette sections upholstered in a contrasting warm gold leather, providing an intimate alternative to the formal round-table arrangement.
The 7th-floor Aili Fang Restaurant and the atrium café dining hall received lighter, more contemporary furniture treatments: pale ash dining tables, rattan-back bistro chairs in a natural linen seat pad, and a custom buffet counter with integrated hot and cold service zones fabricated by Zhobai’s Guangdong workshop. The lakeside café lounge — the property’s informal social hub — was furnished with low lounge chairs in sage green bouclé and hammered copper side tables that catch the lakeside light at sunset.
Banquet & Meeting Spaces
The hotel’s pillar-free 1,000 m² grand ballroom — capable of hosting 500 guests for a gala dinner — is the premier event venue in Yulin and a significant source of the hotel’s corporate revenue. Zhobai furnished the ballroom with 72-inch round banquet tables in dark walnut veneer, ballroom chairs in champagne velvet with gold-lacquered frames, a portable staging system and a head-table furniture set in matching lacquered timber. The pre-function lobby — the first space event guests encounter — received a series of statement console tables, upholstered bench seating and tall decorative planters that create a formal reception atmosphere before the ballroom doors open.
Wellness & Fitness
Zhobai furnished the hotel’s fitness centre with a custom equipment-surround console in dark stained timber and stainless steel housing personal accessory storage, towel stations and mirror panels in a frameless brass surround. The indoor heated pool area received marine-grade aluminium sun loungers with UV-stable mesh slings and folding side tables. The children’s pool and play areas were furnished with Zhobai’s safety-rated children’s poolside range — low-profile loungers in rounded aluminium profiles with brightly coloured cushions — creating a distinct, playful zone within the resort’s overall refined aesthetic.
The Zhobai One-Stop Process
Delivering a complete FF&E programme for a 190-key island hotel — accessible only via a covered bridge, with limited on-site staging area — required a delivery and installation strategy as distinctive as the hotel itself. Zhobai’s project ran across four phases:
- Design Collaboration & Mock-Up (Months 1–4): Zhobai’s design team worked alongside the hotel’s interior architects from concept stage, producing full FF&E schedules, material sample boards and 3D room visualisations for every category. A complete mock-up guestroom was constructed and approved by the hotel’s ownership team and Fuda Group’s quality panel before mass production commenced.
- Custom Manufacturing (Months 5–10): All furniture was produced at Zhobai’s Guangdong workshops under ISO 9001-certified quality management. Every piece underwent finish durability testing, fire-retardancy certification per GB 17927, and a humidity chamber soak test appropriate to the hotel’s permanent lakeside environment. Bathroom furniture components were sealed to IP44 moisture-resistance standards throughout.
- Logistics & Island Delivery (Month 11): All container loads were scheduled to cross the hotel’s access bridge during low-traffic windows, coordinated with the main contractor’s floor-by-floor handover programme to avoid congestion on the island’s limited circulation roads.
- On-Site Installation & Snagging (Month 12): A Zhobai installation team of 20 technicians completed the full fit-out over eight weeks. A joint pre-opening snagging walkthrough with the hotel’s general manager and Fuda Group’s project team ensured every space met the five-star specification before the hotel’s inaugural opening in November 2020.
Result
Jolie Vue Hotel Yulin opened to immediate commercial and critical success — and in August 2025, it achieved the milestone of becoming Yulin’s first officially certified five-star tourism hotel, a recognition that validated both the property’s physical quality and its operational standards. Guest reviews consistently cite the lake view rooms, the balcony soaking tub experience and the lobby’s arrival atmosphere as the hotel’s standout physical elements. The hotel has maintained a rating above 4.9 on major Chinese travel platforms since opening, regularly appearing in lists of Guangxi’s top resort addresses.
For Zhobai, the Jolie Vue project demonstrates the full breadth of our one-stop hotel furniture capability: from the first design conversation on a blank-slate island site to the final pre-opening sign-off, a single accountable partner managing design, manufacturing, island logistics and complete installation — delivering a five-star furniture programme that the property has carried with pride for five years and counting.
Project Snapshot
- Project: Jolie Vue Hotel Yulin (广西玉林璟象大酒店)
- Developer / Operator: Fuda Group
- Location: Yudong New District, Yulin, Guangxi, China
- Scale: 190 rooms & suites; 1,000 m² ballroom; 3 F&B venues
- Scope: Full FF&E — guestrooms, suites, lobby, dining, banquet hall, meeting rooms, pool surround, fitness centre
- Timeline: 12 months from design to handover
- Opening: November 2020
- Rating: Five-Star (Yulin’s first, certified August 2025)
- Services: Design collaboration · Mock-up room · Custom manufacturing · QC · Island logistics · On-site installation
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