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Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing — Lake Resort FF&E

Project Overview

When the Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing Downtown opened its doors in 2022, it marked a defining moment for hospitality in western Guangdong: the arrival of the first Wyndham Grand-branded property in the region, and the transformation of a legacy hotel site into one of the most ambitious resort destinations in the Pearl River Delta hinterland. With 630 guestrooms — 290 of which feature private balcony mineral spring soaking pools — an 11,000-square-metre conference complex, four dining venues, and a showpiece cave hot spring, this is a property of genuine scale and complexity. As the exclusive FF&E partner commissioned to furnish every guest-facing space, Zhobai Hotel Furniture brought to this project not only manufacturing capability but the design intelligence required to translate an ambitious brief into a coherent, brand-compliant physical environment.

Situated at No. 13 Xinghu Avenue, Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing — immediately adjacent to the east gate of the Seven Star Crags (Qixingyan) National 5A Scenic Area — the hotel’s address is inseparable from its identity. The karst limestone peaks, lake vistas, and garden landscapes of one of South China’s most celebrated natural parks form a literal backdrop to the property’s guest experience. Every major furniture decision at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing was made in conscious dialogue with that landscape: materials that echo natural stone, colour palettes drawn from the water and limestone of the Xinhu lake system, and room configurations designed to frame — rather than compete with — the views beyond the glass.

Exterior and Setting

The hotel’s garden-facing frontage by day: Zhobai supplied the exterior furniture programme for the garden terrace, including weather-resistant lounge seating, parasol bases, and planting bed border units that frame the hotel’s arrival garden.

Tropical landscaping and the hotel’s warm-toned facade set a resort atmosphere immediately on approach — the outdoor furniture programme Zhobai delivered for this zone was specified in UV-stable resin wicker to withstand Zhaoqing’s subtropical humidity.

At sunset, the hotel’s lakeside elevation reflects across the Xinhu lake surface — a view that shaped Zhobai’s entire interior colour programme, with warm amber and sand tones referencing the light quality of the site at golden hour.

Lobby and Arrival Spaces

The arrival sequence at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is conceived as a theatrical transition — from the outdoor tropical garden, through a monumental entrance portal, into an interior world that simultaneously references the region’s karst geology and the refined aesthetic of contemporary new Chinese luxury design. Zhobai’s lobby furniture programme was developed in close coordination with the project’s interior design practice, with every piece positioned to reinforce the spatial narrative established by the architecture.

The arrival lobby’s digital scenic wall — a floor-to-ceiling LED installation depicting Seven Star Crags landscapes — is framed by Zhobai’s entrance furniture programme: console tables in honed travertine and brushed bronze, and a pair of bespoke lounge chairs in a warm ochre velvet positioned as arrival seating.

The lobby reception and lounge zone: Zhobai’s curved reception counter in light travertine-effect stone and warm oak veneer is flanked by a modular lounge seating programme in neutral sand and warm terracotta tones.

The colour-ceiling corridor connecting the arrival lobby to the tower lifts features Zhobai’s wall-mounted console programme and custom corridor benching — pieces whose dark walnut finish grounds the corridor beneath the dramatic overhead light installation.

The grand corridor passage leading to the meeting and dining wings: Zhobai specified a continuous console table run along the inner wall, providing luggage rest points and display surfaces without interrupting the visual depth of the long perspective.

The reception counter at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is among the most architecturally significant pieces in Zhobai’s recent project portfolio. At over eight metres in length, the curved desk accommodates four check-in positions simultaneously — essential for a 630-room property that receives group tour arrivals from the Seven Star Crags tourist circuit. The counter’s travertine-effect stone cladding was fabricated by Zhobai’s millwork team using a high-pressure laminate system that closely approximates the visual texture of real stone while offering the impact resistance and repairability required in a high-traffic hotel environment. The counter surface — in honed white marble — was supplied and installed by Zhobai’s stone division, with seamless under-mounted joints that prevent the liquid ingress issues common in granite reception surfaces over years of hotel operation.

Guestrooms: 630 Keys, New Chinese Luxury Across Seven Tiers

The guestroom programme at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is defined by two overlapping ambitions: brand compliance with Wyndham Grand’s international FF&E standards, and a design identity that is unmistakably rooted in the cultural and natural heritage of Zhaoqing. Zhobai achieved this balance through a palette of materials that read as contemporary and sophisticated while carrying deliberate references to the landscape — ink-wash grey stone-effect finishes on headboard panels, warm bamboo-toned laminates on cabinetry, and textile choices that cycle through the green, blue, and ochre of the Xinhu lakeside environment across room categories.

The Standard King guestroom: Zhobai’s platform bed base, upholstered headboard in a neutral linen weave, and matching bedside tables establish the room’s base material language — restrained and contemporary, with a warm undertone that prevents the minimalism from feeling clinical.

The Deluxe King Garden View room expands on the standard configuration with a lounge chair positioned at the full-height window — a furniture arrangement that Zhobai specified to maximise use of the panoramic garden prospect.

The Luxury King Garden View bedroom features Zhobai’s premium headboard variant — an arched panel in a structured ivory bouclé, taller and more sculptural than the standard tier, reinforcing the room’s position in the property’s FF&E hierarchy.

High-floor garden view rooms benefit from elevated karst mountain panoramas; Zhobai configured all furniture to maintain unobstructed sightlines from both the bed and the in-room lounge seating.

The suite-category room corner lounge nook features Zhobai’s L-sofa module in a deep slate-blue velvet — a colour that directly references the ink-tone of the Seven Star Crags lake surface at dusk, and serves as the suite’s primary accent.

The vanity wall detail in a premium king room: Zhobai’s full-height millwork panel integrates mirror, vanity shelf, and concealed cable management in a single architectural piece that eliminates the visual clutter of separately sourced accessories.

One of the hotel’s 290 private balcony mineral spring soaking pool rooms: Zhobai supplied the balcony furniture programme — the soaking pool surround teak decking support frame, adjacent stone-top side table, and weather-resistant recliner — as an integrated outdoor FF&E package.

The private balcony soaking pool rooms represent the most technically demanding element of Zhobai’s scope at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing. Each of the 290 pool rooms required a bespoke balcony furniture package designed to function in direct contact with the mineral-rich spring water, subtropical humidity, and direct sun exposure of an outdoor deck environment. Zhobai developed a teak hardwood decking surround frame for each pool, with stone-topped side tables in a UV-stable composite material and recliner frames in powder-coated marine-grade aluminium — a metal specification normally reserved for coastal projects, but selected here because of the soaking pool water’s mineral content, which accelerates corrosion in standard commercial-grade furniture components. The result is a balcony environment that performs as beautifully in the property’s third year of operation as it did at opening.

Family Rooms and Children’s Configurations

The family-themed children’s room features Zhobai’s children’s furniture collection: a low-slung play table with rounded corners, a soft activity rug, an indoor canvas tent, and wall-mounted storage in a playful primary colour palette.

The family twin lake view room accommodates parents and children with two adult single beds alongside a children’s play zone; Zhobai’s layout separates the sleeping and play areas using a low storage unit that functions as both visual divider and toy storage.

Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing’s proximity to the Seven Star Crags scenic area makes it a natural destination for family resort stays, and the hotel’s family room programme reflects that commercial reality. Zhobai developed a modular children’s furniture package — a low play table, round-corner occasional tables, a canvas tent frame, and a wall-mounted pegboard storage system — that can be installed in any standard king room to create an ad hoc family configuration, allowing the hotel to flex its family room inventory in response to seasonal demand without permanent room reconfiguration.

Bathrooms: Private Soaking Tubs and Wet-Dry Separation

The premium bathroom programme features a freestanding soaking tub as the focal element; Zhobai supplied the adjacent teak bath bridge, floor-mounted towel ladder, robe hooks, and the full accessory programme in a coordinated brushed gold finish.

All guestroom bathrooms at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing are configured with wet-dry separation — a standard feature of the Wyndham Grand brand specification in the Chinese market, and a genuine functional asset for resort guests who use the property’s thermal bathing facilities across multiple daily sessions. Zhobai’s bathroom FF&E scope covers the complete vanity millwork package: a 1,400-mm wide double-basin vanity unit in moisture-resistant MDF finished in a warm stone-effect lacquer, with an integrated open shelf at knee height for towel storage, and a full-width backlit mirror frame in brushed gold that delivers 2,700K warm-white illumination across the entire vanity width. In soaking tub configurations, the teak bath bridge, towel ladder, and accessory programme were designed as a coordinated set — all items delivered pre-finished from Zhobai’s facility to avoid on-site painting or sealing that would introduce delays into the room completion sequence.

Dining: Four Venues Across Three Floors

The Xuan All-Day Restaurant dining hall: Zhobai’s dining furniture programme layers multiple seating typologies — upholstered dining chairs, banquette seating along the perimeter, and counter-height window seats — to create distinct sub-zones within the open floor plate.

The window dining zone in the all-day restaurant provides panoramic garden views; Zhobai specified two-top and four-top tables positioned to maximise the number of window-facing seats without creating a layout that feels regimented.

The garden-view section of the restaurant uses Zhobai’s banquette seating system along the floor-to-ceiling glazing — an upholstered bench run that accommodates large group dining while maintaining the visual connection to the garden landscape outside.

The second-floor Xuan All-Day Restaurant is the hotel’s primary dining venue — a full-service buffet and à la carte space that anchors the property’s food and beverage offering with a garden-facing panoramic window wall. Zhobai’s furniture brief for this 320-seat restaurant required unusual variety: morning breakfast service demands durable, easily cleanable surfaces and efficient table arrangements for high-turnover seating; evening dinner service calls for a more ambient, relaxed configuration suited to the property’s RMB 358 per person premium seafood buffet positioning. Our solution layered three seating types — upholstered dining chairs with washable fabric seats at the central tables, leather-effect banquette benches along the window elevation, and rattan-wrapped counter stools at the garden-view counter — with table sizes ranging from intimate two-tops to extendable six-tops that can be combined for group bookings. The furniture system’s modularity allows the restaurant team to reconfigure the floor between meal periods in under thirty minutes using furniture casters and folding table extensions, all integral to Zhobai’s commercial dining specification.

Meetings and Events: 11,000 Square Metres of Event Infrastructure

The conference and banquet programme at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is among the largest in western Guangdong, and its commercial significance to the hotel’s revenue model shaped every decision in Zhobai’s meeting furniture specification. The 11,000-square-metre event floor encompasses a pillar-free grand ballroom with seven-metre ceiling heights and an integrated LED screen, ten-plus multi-function rooms, and a full pre-function area — a programme capable of handling 60-table wedding banquets and thousand-person corporate annual conferences from the same facilities on consecutive days.

The grand ballroom configured in theater style for a large conference: Zhobai’s padded stacking chairs and aisle-aligned row system accommodate the rapid reconfiguration cycles that an active event floor demands — from theater to banquet to classroom within a single working day.

One of the property’s ten multi-function conference rooms configured for boardroom use: Zhobai’s modular conference table system uses locking connectors that allow hotel staff to reconfigure from 10-person boardroom to 30-person classroom without removing tables from the room.

Zhobai supplied over 800 banquet chairs for the Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing event floor — all from our commercial hotel banquet collection, in a gold-tone metal frame with padded seat and sash-ready back. The chair’s stacking profile (10 chairs per stack) was selected in response to the ballroom’s daily reset requirements: the property’s event operations team can break down and reset a 60-table banquet configuration in under ninety minutes, a timeline that drove every handling-efficiency decision in the banquet furniture specification. Conference rooms are furnished with Zhobai’s modular table system — individual modules with locking cable-management connectors that allow hotel staff to shift between boardroom, classroom, and U-shape layouts without tools or specialist knowledge. All conference chairs are in a mid-back executive model with swivel base and armrests, upholstered in a charcoal mesh-back specification that provides passive ventilation during multi-hour conference sessions in South China’s warm climate.

Recreation and Wellness

The 24-hour fitness centre: Zhobai supplied the gym’s peripheral furniture programme — equipment storage racks, a towel service station, a stretch mat storage unit, and the gym entrance console — alongside the poolside lounger programme for the adjacent indoor swimming pool.

The sixth floor recreation level at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing houses the fitness centre, yoga studio, and indoor temperature-controlled swimming pool, supplemented by the property’s signature cave hot spring complex — an underground mineral spring facility that is among the most unusual resort amenities in Guangdong. Zhobai’s scope on the recreation floor focused on peripheral and outdoor furniture: gym equipment organiser racks, a staffed towel service station, stretch mat storage, and a full poolside lounger programme in powder-coated aluminium frames with quick-dry mesh slings — a specification chosen for its performance in chlorine-adjacent wet environments and its ability to drain and dry between guest uses without towel-aided assistance.

Project Delivery and the Zhobai Partnership Model

A 630-room hotel opening in Zhaoqing presented logistical conditions that reward suppliers with genuine Chinese project experience. Zhobai’s production facility in Guangdong positioned us within an efficient delivery radius of the Zhaoqing site, enabling a delivery sequence — phased by building section and floor — that maintained furniture installation momentum while the general contractor completed final finishes in the upper floors. Our project manager was resident in Zhaoqing for the final ten weeks of the installation programme, conducting daily handover inspections with the hotel’s pre-opening team and the interior design practice’s site representative.

Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing Downtown has since established itself as the leading resort hotel in western Guangdong, with a five-star equivalent positioning that draws leisure guests from Guangzhou, Foshan, and Shenzhen as well as international visitors to the Seven Star Crags. The property carries a 4.8-star aggregate rating across major Chinese booking platforms, with guest reviews that consistently highlight the room quality, the private pool experience, and the dining programme — the three areas where Zhobai’s FF&E investment is most directly visible in the guest experience. We remain available to the hotel’s ownership and management teams for renovation planning, individual room upgrades, and furniture maintenance support as the property evolves through its operating life.

2026年6月2日
Sheraton Mianyang Xianhai Lake Resort FF&E
On the forested shores of Lake Xianhai in Mianyang, Sichuan — a lake ringed by 46 peninsulas and cloaked in 90% forest coverage — Sheraton Mianyang Xianhai Lake Resort opened in July 2021 as something rarely achieved in the global hotel industry: a world-class brand’s official prototype for a new design generation. Developed under the newly reimagined Sheraton brand by Marriott International, the 342-key property was designated as the Asia-Pacific’s first Sheraton “New Era” flagship — a benchmark property against which Sheraton hotels across the region would be measured and inspired. Its open-lobby concept, Sichuan bamboo-weave interiors, lakeside resort setting and comprehensive family amenity programme made it, upon opening, the most talked-about new hotel in southwest China. Zhobai was appointed to deliver the complete hotel furniture FF&E solution for this landmark project — producing and installing the full furniture programme across guestrooms, suites, lobby, dining halls, banquet facilities and wellness spaces.

Project Overview

The Sheraton Mianyang sits on the edge of Lake Xianhai in the Xianhai National Tourism Resort — a 46-km² protected scenic area 26 kilometres from Mianyang city centre, offering a natural setting entirely unlike the urban-tower hotels that dominate most Chinese Sheraton properties. At 342 rooms and suites across a low-rise lakeside complex, the hotel draws on the resort’s extraordinary landscape — lake views from over 70% of guestrooms, 2,000 m² of lakeside outdoor lawn and terrace event space, and a children’s resort programme anchored by an indoor-outdoor dual fantasy playground — to deliver a complete leisure and family holiday destination that happens also to carry one of the world’s most trusted business hotel brands. Zhobai’s FF&E scope covered every guest-facing space in the property, from the individually specified guestrooms to the &More shared-work lobby and the lakeside terrace dining furniture.

Design Vision: New Sheraton Meets Sichuan

The “New Era” Sheraton design language abandons the traditional hotel lobby — a formal reception hall separating arriving guests from the rest of the building — in favour of an open, activity-rich community space that Sheraton calls the “Social Hub.” At Mianyang Xianhai, this concept was translated through the lens of Sichuan’s extraordinary craft and natural heritage: bamboo-weave ceiling panels reference the hand-woven basketry traditions of Sichuan’s artisan communities; pale camphor wood case goods echo the light, warm timber of a Sichuan teahouse; and the lobby’s signature botanical installations bring the forest landscape of Lake Xianhai’s shore inside the building. Zhobai’s design team worked in close collaboration with Marriott’s regional FF&E standards team and the project’s interior architects to develop a complete furniture specification that honours both the global “New Era” brief and the specific cultural intelligence of a property rooted in Sichuan.

The Social Hub Lobby

The Sheraton “Social Hub” lobby at Mianyang Xianhai is designed around four distinct zones, each furnished by Zhobai as a coherent programme while maintaining visual continuity across the full open-plan space. The primary lounge zone — anchored by a deep modular sofa in a warm ivory performance linen with bamboo-print scatter cushions — faces the lobby’s full-height glazing and the lake view beyond, positioning the landscape as the room’s centrepiece rather than its backdrop. A dedicated co-working long-table zone, furnished with Zhobai’s custom communal desk in pale ash with integrated power and data channels and a series of individual task chairs in a natural mesh back, serves the hotel’s business guests without the formality of a traditional business centre. A quiet acoustic zone — three private telephone-booth structures in pale timber with an upholstered internal bench — provides for confidential calls without requiring a separate room. The lobby café bar area rounds out the Social Hub with a custom counter in hand-lacquered cabinetry and a series of high bar stools and low café tables in a coordinating pale ash.

Guestroom Furniture Programme

All 342 guestrooms are designed in what the hotel describes as “light wood Neo-Chinese light luxury” — a palette of pale camphor wood, warm ivory linens, and subtle Sichuan craft references that creates a calm, restful atmosphere calibrated to the forest-lake setting outside every window.

Mountain View & Lake View Rooms (41–43 m²)

The hotel’s standard room categories — Deluxe Mountain View and Premium Lake View — share the same generous 41–43 m² footprint and differ primarily in orientation and upholstery accent colour. Zhobai specified a Sheraton-standard Sweet Sleeper bed platform in pale camphor wood veneer with a padded headboard in a quiet off-white cotton-linen blend, floating bedside units with wireless charging and integrated reading lights, and a full wardrobe unit in matching pale timber laminate with push-to-open hardware. The height-adjustable work desk — a Sheraton “New Era” brand standard — is fabricated by Zhobai in a pale stone composite surface with an electric motor sit-stand mechanism, paired with an ergonomic task chair in a natural mesh back and padded arm rests. Lake-view rooms receive a deeper sage-green accent cushion set and curtain lining to complement the lake panorama; mountain-view rooms use a softer terracotta accent palette that references Sichuan’s ochre hillscapes.

Bathroom Design

Every guestroom bathroom at the Sheraton Mianyang features the wet-dry separated design — an independent deep-soak bathtub and a separate walk-in rainfall shower — that the Sheraton brand specifies as a standard across its full-service resort properties. Zhobai supplied a freestanding soaking bathtub surround in honed white marble composite with floor-mounted brushed champagne gold fittings, a wall-hung double-basin vanity console in pale grey stone composite with a coordinating LED mirror, and a bamboo-motif towel rail in a matte gold finish that connects the bathroom’s hardware to the Sichuan craft references running through the hotel’s interiors.

Lake View Suites & Executive Programme (86–240 m²)

The suite programme ranges from 86 m² Executive Lake View Suites with 270-degree lake panoramas to the 240 m² Premium Resort Suite with an oversized observation terrace and a freestanding bathtub positioned at the picture window for a direct lake view. Zhobai furnished all suite living zones with a bespoke sofa in a warm jade performance fabric with hand-embroidered cushion panels in a Sichuan floral motif, a round coffee table in hand-shaped travertine with a pale gold base, and a console table in pale camphor wood with a delicate bamboo-lattice carved door front. The suite programme’s observation terraces each received a two-seat teak conversation set with cushions in a botanical-print outdoor fabric — an outdoor living zone that extends the suite’s usable area to the lake’s edge.

Dining Furniture

The hotel’s four food-and-beverage venues each require a distinct furniture character that serves both the programming of the space and the wider resort narrative. The Daily Social all-day dining restaurant — the hotel’s largest F&B venue — was furnished by Zhobai with a programme designed for the full arc of a buffet day: round four-top tables in pale ash for the morning buffet service, a perimeter run of curved banquette booths in a warm camel performance leather for the evening seafood buffet, and a live-station bar counter in hand-lacquered pale grey cabinetry with a honed stone top. The Yue Chinese restaurant received a more ceremonial furniture treatment: round lacquered dining tables with lazy-susan insets in brushed gold hardware, high-back dining chairs in a deep jade brocade with hand-carved camphor wood frames, and six private dining room sets with full bespoke cabinetry in lacquered ebony with bamboo-lattice panel doors.

Banquet & Meeting Spaces

The hotel’s 1,200 m² of indoor meeting and event space — anchored by an 800 m² pillar-free grand ballroom capable of hosting 700 guests in round-table banquet format or 1,000 in theatre configuration — is complemented by 2,000 m² of outdoor lakeside lawn for the garden weddings, team-building events and al fresco banquets that the Xianhai setting makes uniquely spectacular. Zhobai furnished the grand ballroom with a complete Sheraton-specification banquet package: 72-inch round tables in dark walnut veneer, ballroom chairs in a champagne-gold fabric with a pale timber frame, and a portable staging system in lacquered pale ash. The five syndicate meeting rooms received Zhobai’s modular conference table system in pale ash veneer with integrated cable management, executive chairs in a navy blue mesh-back performance fabric, and perimeter credenzas in a matching timber finish. The boardroom configuration received a fixed oval conference table in solid camphor wood with integrated power and data, paired with high-back leather chairs in a warm tan cowhide.

Wellness & Family Facilities

The hotel’s wellness and family amenity programme is a primary driver of its commercial success as northern Sichuan’s leading family resort. The panoramic indoor heated pool — visible from the lake-facing guestroom floors and maintained at a constant 28°C year-round — was furnished by Zhobai with a full poolside package: sun loungers in marine-grade aluminium with UV-stable mesh slings, paired side tables and a family section with lower-profile child-scale loungers in a bright coral fabric. The sky fitness centre, equipped with a full LifeFitness cardio and strength suite and a dedicated yoga studio, received Zhobai’s equipment-surround console in pale camphor wood with stainless steel detailing and frameless floor-height mirror panels in a bamboo-motif border frame.

The Zhobai One-Stop Process

Delivering the complete FF&E programme for the Asia-Pacific’s designated flagship Sheraton “New Era” prototype — subject to the most rigorous Marriott brand compliance review applied to any Sheraton opening in the region that year — required Zhobai to operate at the highest standard of its design, manufacturing and project management capability. The delivery model ran across four structured phases:
1. Design Collaboration & Brand Compliance (Months 1–4): Zhobai’s senior design team participated in brand compliance review sessions with Marriott’s global FF&E standards team, producing full FF&E schedules, material sample submissions and 3D room visualisations. As the Asia-Pacific prototype property, this hotel’s specifications were reviewed by Marriott’s global Sheraton brand leadership — not merely the regional team — before any item entered production. A complete physical mock-up guestroom was constructed in Zhobai’s Guangdong facility and signed off at this level before mass production commenced.
2. Custom Manufacturing (Months 5–10): All furniture was produced at Zhobai’s ISO 9001-certified workshops. The height-adjustable desk units were subject to 10,000-cycle motor endurance testing before shipment. Camphor wood carved panels underwent moisture-content testing to ensure stability in Sichuan’s humid climate. All upholstered pieces received fire-retardancy certification per GB 17927 and a 50,000-cycle Martindale abrasion test to Marriott’s contract fabric standard.
3. Logistics & Resort Delivery (Month 11): All container loads were coordinated to the Xianhai resort site via the Mianyang city road network, with deliveries scheduled to avoid the resort’s peak weekend visitor traffic. On-site staging areas were established in coordination with the hotel’s main contractor to manage the delivery flow of 342 rooms’ worth of furniture through a resort compound under simultaneous finishing trades.
4. On-Site Installation & Snagging (Month 12): A Zhobai installation team of 25 technicians completed the full fit-out over seven weeks. As the Asia-Pacific prototype, the final pre-opening snagging walkthrough involved Marriott’s global Sheraton brand team in addition to the hotel’s general management — a sign-off process that Zhobai’s installation quality passed without condition.
Result

Sheraton Mianyang Xianhai Lake Resort opened in July 2021 to immediate industry recognition and strong commercial performance. As Marriott’s designated Asia-Pacific Sheraton “New Era” prototype, the property has since served as the design and operational benchmark for subsequent Sheraton openings across the region. The hotel achieved the highest guest satisfaction scores of any Sheraton opening in China in 2021, with furniture quality, the open lobby concept and the lakeside suite experience most frequently cited as differentiating guest highlights. For Zhobai, the project represents the most significant brand-compliance FF&E programme we have delivered — an Asia-Pacific industry benchmark produced from our Guangdong workshops to global hotel brand prototype specification.

Project Snapshot
- Project: Sheraton Mianyang Xianhai Lake Resort (绵阳首开喜来登酒店)
- Operator: Marriott International — Sheraton brand
- Designation: Asia-Pacific Sheraton “New Era” Prototype Property
- Location: Xianhai National Tourism Resort, Mianyang, Sichuan, China
- Scale: 342 rooms & suites; 1,200 m² indoor event space; 2,000 m² outdoor lakeside lawn
- Scope: Full FF&E — guestrooms, suites, Social Hub lobby, all-day dining, Chinese restaurant, outdoor terrace, banquet hall, meeting rooms, pool surround, fitness centre
- Timeline: 12 months from design to handover
- Opening: July 2021
- Rating: Five-Star
- Services: Design collaboration · Global brand compliance mock-up · Custom manufacturing · QC · Logistics · On-site installation
Planning a resort hotel furniture project to international brand prototype standards? Contact Zhobai to discuss your FF&E requirements.
2026年6月2日
Jolie Vue Hotel Yulin Island Resort FF&E
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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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
Planning a lakeside resort or island hotel furniture project? Contact Zhobai to discuss your FF&E requirements.
2026年6月2日
Wyndham Baise Resort Hotel Five-Star FF&E
Positioned on the banks of the Youjiang River in Baise, Guangxi, Wyndham Baise Resort Hotel opened in 2020 as the city’s flagship five-star property and the first Wyndham-branded resort in this rapidly developing corner of southwest China. Developed by Guangxi Baito Group and operated under Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ global standards, the 301-key resort combines Chinese garden aesthetics with contemporary light-luxury design, offering a complete destination experience — guestrooms, dining, international conference facilities and a full wellness suite — against the backdrop of one of Guangxi’s most scenic riverside settings. Zhobai was appointed as the one-stop hotel furniture FF&E supplier for the project, delivering the complete furniture programme across every guest-facing area from the guestrooms and suites to the lobby, dining halls, banquet spaces and recreational facilities.

Project Overview

The Wyndham Baise Resort occupies a prime waterfront site at No. 8 Huandao Yi Road, Youjiang District — metres from the Youjiang River promenade and adjacent to the Baise Garden Expo Park. At 301 rooms and suites across multiple categories, the hotel serves a dual market: government and corporate delegations attending the city’s 1,200 m² pillar-free international convention centre, and leisure travellers drawn by the resort’s riverside location, indoor heated pool and spa. The property holds an official five-star rating and serves as a designated government reception hotel for Baise, setting an exceptionally high benchmark for furniture quality, durability and presentation.

Design Vision: Where Chinese Garden Meets Modern Light Luxury

The design brief drew from two primary sources of inspiration. The first was the Buluotuo cultural tradition of the Zhuang people of Guangxi — the mythological creation narrative at the heart of Baise’s ethnic heritage — expressed through hand-carved timber screens, latticed stone panels and woven textile patterns throughout the public areas. The second was the contemporary light-luxury language of China’s new-generation resort hotels: clean architectural lines, restrained material palettes of warm stone, lacquered timber and brushed bronze, and expansive glazing that frames the Youjiang River panorama as the property’s defining artwork. Zhobai’s design team worked closely with the hotel’s interior architects to translate this vision into a fully coordinated FF&E programme that honours both references without allowing either to dominate.

Lobby & Public Circulation

The hotel’s grand lobby is a double-height atrium flooded with natural light through a fully glazed roof structure — a design statement that announces the resort’s ambitions the moment a guest arrives. Zhobai supplied the complete lobby furniture package: a custom reception counter in honed grey marble with a hand-carved timber fascia panel referencing Zhuang ceremonial motifs; a primary lounge arrangement of deep-cushioned modular sofas in warm ivory performance fabric with jade-green accent cushions; a series of round marble-top side tables in bronze-tipped bases; and individual occasional chairs in natural linen distributed across the atrium floor to encourage spontaneous conversation and lingering. Every upholstered lobby piece was manufactured with Zhobai’s hospitality-grade high-resilience foam core, rated for 100,000-cycle seat compression without loss of form.

The lobby’s evening character shifts through carefully positioned lounge seating clusters near the main bar, creating intimate conversation zones that serve the hotel’s after-dinner social programme. Zhobai supplied low club chairs in deep teal velvet and smoked-glass side tables for these evening lounge areas, providing a colour-temperature contrast to the daytime ivory palette that transforms the space from arrival hall to social salon as the sun sets over the Youjiang.

Corridors & Circulation

With 301 rooms across multiple floors, the hotel’s guestroom corridors represent a significant furniture programme in their own right. Zhobai supplied corridor console tables in dark walnut veneer with ceramic bowl vessels at each lift lobby landing — a hospitality-standard arrival moment that punctuates the journey from lift to room. The corridor carpet and wall panelling interface directly with Zhobai’s skirting trim and door-frame furniture, requiring precise coordination with the main contractor to ensure seamless material transitions. The lower-level circulation routes connecting the main lobby to the convention centre and wellness facilities were furnished with upholstered bench seats at regular intervals — a practical but overlooked detail that improves the guest experience significantly during high-occupancy conference periods.

Guestroom Furniture Programme

The 301-key guestroom programme covered five distinct categories, each requiring a tailored furniture specification that maintains the property’s overall design coherence while offering a perceptible quality step-up between tiers.

Elegant & Standard Rooms (43–45 m²)

The property’s entry-level Elegant Rooms — at a generous 43 square metres — set a quality baseline well above the market average for the category. Zhobai specified a platform bed in dark-stained solid oak with a quilted fabric headboard in a subtle geometric weave, integrated bedside units with wireless charging pads, and a full-width wardrobe and luggage zone in lacquered cabinetry with push-to-open drawer hardware. The standard room brief required furniture that photographs well for the hotel’s marketing materials, operates reliably under a five-year commercial use cycle, and cleans efficiently for a high-turnover property — a tri-part brief that Zhobai’s production team addressed through material selection, construction specification and surface finish detailing.

Deluxe River View Rooms (45 m²)

The Deluxe River View category is the hotel’s most commercially significant room type — commanding a meaningful premium over garden-view rooms on the strength of the Youjiang panorama visible from every balcony. Zhobai supplied teak balcony furniture for all Deluxe River View rooms: a two-seat conversation set with a slatted table and two lounge chairs in UV-resistant teak oil, sized to make the private balcony a usable outdoor living space rather than a decorative ledge. Interior furniture in these rooms uses a lighter, warmer timber tone than the standard category — pale ash rather than dark oak — to draw the eye toward the river view rather than the furniture itself.

Bathroom Furniture

A signature feature of all Wyndham Baise guestrooms is the oversized soaking bathtub — a specification that became a differentiating amenity in the hotel’s marketing and a recurring highlight in guest reviews. Zhobai supplied custom freestanding bathtub surrounds in honed white marble composite with brushed bronze floor-mounted filler fittings, a wall-hung vanity console in solid surface material with integrated basin, and a full-height illuminated mirror with a warm-tone LED perimeter. The wet-dry separation design — a requirement across all room categories — was achieved through Zhobai’s custom-profiled shower screen frames in matt bronze, allowing a clean architectural division without compromising the room’s open, spacious feel.

Suites (70–250 m²)

The suite programme ranges from 70 m² Family and Deluxe Suites to the 250 m² Presidential Suite — a scale that demanded furniture of genuinely residential quality. Zhobai supplied the suite living areas with custom sofas in silk-blend upholstery, a round dining table in honed marble for in-suite entertaining, bespoke cabinetry for the bar and kitchenette areas, and a dedicated bedroom set in lacquered solid wood with individually handcrafted headboard panels. The Presidential Suite received a fully bespoke furniture programme: hand-carved desk and cabinet pieces, a custom king bed frame with a fabric-panelled tester, and a private terrace set in hand-finished teak.

Dining Furniture

The hotel’s five food-and-beverage venues span a range of service styles from casual all-day dining to private banquet entertaining. The centrepiece is the Buluotuo Chinese Restaurant — named for the Zhuang cultural deity and designed to celebrate the culinary traditions of western Guangxi. Zhobai supplied round banquet tables in dark lacquered timber with lazy-susan inserts, high-back dining chairs upholstered in a brocade fabric drawing from traditional Zhuang textile patterns, and a series of private dining room furniture sets for the venue’s large VIP suites. The all-day dining buffet restaurant received a contrasting, lighter furniture treatment: pale ash tables, rattan-back side chairs and a custom buffet counter with integrated hot and cold zones, designed to feel relaxed and contemporary against the heavier formality of the Chinese banquet hall.

Banquet & Meeting Spaces

The hotel’s international convention centre — a pillar-free ballroom of 1,200 m² capable of hosting 800 guests — is one of the largest dedicated event spaces in Baise and a primary driver of the hotel’s corporate revenue. Zhobai furnished the ballroom with its full banquet package: 72-inch round banquet tables in dark walnut veneer, banquet chairs in deep red velvet with a gold-lacquered frame appropriate for the ceremonial events this room regularly hosts, and a portable staging system with a coordinated lectern and head-table furniture set. The eight additional meeting rooms and breakout spaces were furnished with Zhobai’s modular conference table system, executive leather chairs and perimeter credenzas — all finished in the dark bronze and walnut palette consistent with the hotel’s overall interior language.

Wellness & Recreational Facilities

The hotel’s indoor constant-temperature swimming pool — a year-round amenity that has become one of the property’s most-photographed social media features — was furnished by Zhobai with a pool-surround furniture package: sun loungers in marine-grade aluminium with UV-stable mesh slings, stacking side tables with integrated towel storage, and changing-room bench seating in solid teak. The spa treatment rooms received individual furniture sets including massage tables in medical-grade upholstery, attendant stools and towel-warming storage units, while the fitness centre was fitted with equipment arrangement consoles in dark stained timber and stainless steel.

The Zhobai One-Stop Process

Delivering a complete 301-key five-star hotel FF&E programme in Baise — a city in rapid development but located away from major coastal manufacturing hubs — required Zhobai to manage the full supply chain from its Guangdong production base to final on-site installation in Guangxi. The project ran across four phases:
1. Design Collaboration (Months 1–4): Zhobai’s design team embedded with the hotel’s interior architects to develop the full FF&E specification — producing sample boards, scaled 3D visualisations and brand compliance documentation for every room category and public space before production commenced. A physical mock-up room was completed and approved by the hotel’s ownership and Wyndham’s regional team before mass production began.
2. Custom Manufacturing (Months 5–10): All furniture was produced at Zhobai’s ISO 9001-certified Guangdong workshops. Guestroom case goods underwent a 72-hour humidity chamber test for tropical climate durability. Upholstered pieces received GB 17927 fire-retardancy certification and a 50,000-cycle Martindale abrasion test. All bathroom furniture was sealed to IP44 moisture resistance standards.
3. Logistics & Delivery (Month 11): Zhobai coordinated 18 container loads from Guangdong to Baise via the Nanning–Baise expressway corridor, scheduling deliveries in coordination with the main contractor’s floor-by-floor handover programme.
4. On-Site Installation & Snagging (Month 12): A Zhobai installation team of 22 technicians completed the full FF&E fit-out over eight weeks, from guestroom floors to lobby, dining halls and banquet facilities. A final pre-opening walkthrough with the hotel’s general manager and Wyndham’s quality assurance team signed off every space before the property’s inaugural opening.
Result

Wyndham Baise Resort Hotel opened in 2020 and immediately established itself as the premier hospitality address in the Baise region — the city’s first internationally branded five-star property and its designated government reception hotel. Guest reviews consistently cite the river-view rooms, the lobby experience and the bathroom soaking tubs as the property’s standout physical elements. The hotel has maintained a rating above 4.8 on major Chinese travel platforms since opening, with furniture quality frequently mentioned as a key differentiator from other Baise properties.

For Zhobai, the project exemplifies our one-stop hotel furniture capability at scale: managing the design, manufacture, logistics and installation of a complete 301-key resort FF&E programme — delivered on schedule, to five-star specification, in a southwestern inland city — as a single, fully accountable supply chain partner.

Project Snapshot
- Project: Wyndham Baise Resort Hotel (广西百色温德姆度假酒店)
- Developer: Guangxi Baito Group
- Operator: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
- Location: Youjiang District, Baise, Guangxi, China
- Scale: 301 rooms & suites; 1,200 m² convention centre; 5 F&B venues
- Scope: Full FF&E — guestrooms, suites, lobby, dining, banquet hall, meeting rooms, pool, spa, fitness
- Timeline: 12 months from design to handover
- Opening: 2020
- Rating: Five-Star (Official)
- Services: Design collaboration · Mock-up room · Custom manufacturing · QC · Logistics · On-site installation
Planning a five-star hotel furniture project in mainland China or beyond? Contact Zhobai to discuss your FF&E requirements.
2026年6月2日
Dhawa Beihai Weizhou Island FF&E Project
When Banyan Tree Group’s contemporary lifestyle brand Dhawa chose Weizhou Island — China’s southernmost volcanic island — as the setting for its newest resort, the design mandate was bold: bring together the raw energy of ancient lava landscapes, the rhythms of Guangxi’s seafaring Tanka culture, and the fresh optimism of a resort brand built for a younger generation of luxury travellers. The result, Dhawa Beihai Weizhou Island, opened in early 2026 as the island’s first internationally branded luxury hotel — and Zhobai was proud to deliver the complete hotel furniture FF&E solution that brought this vision to life.

Project Overview

Located on the western shore of Weizhou Island in Beihai, Guangxi, the resort sits just two minutes on foot from a pristine natural beach and three minutes by car from Xijiao Ferry Terminal. Volcano craters, coral reefs and open-sea whale-watching routes lie within a 20-minute drive. Spanning 236 guestrooms and suites — including 26 pool-access rooms, every one fitted with a private balcony — the property also features approximately 1,700 m² of meeting and event space, three food-and-beverage venues, an outdoor infinity pool facing the open sea, an 8lements Spa, a fully equipped fitness centre, and a children’s club.

Zhobai’s scope covered the full FF&E package across all guest-facing areas: concept co-development with the design team, custom manufacturing at our Guangdong workshops, factory quality control, container logistics to the island, and complete on-site installation and snagging.

Design Vision: Where Volcano Meets the Sea

The architectural and interior design brief was built on three layered references: the volcanic basalt geology of Weizhou Island; the azure depths of the South China Sea; and the Tanka boat-dwelling heritage of the local fishing communities. Unlike the hushed neutrality of a conventional luxury hotel, Dhawa’s brand DNA demands spaces that feel energetic yet considered — tactile surfaces, youthful accent colours, and decorative motifs that tell a genuine local story.

For Zhobai’s design team, this translated into a precise material palette: natural solid wood in warm walnut and ash tones, hand-woven rattan panels, linen and cotton upholstery in ocean-inspired blues and sandy terracottas, and brushed brass hardware with a subtly oxidised finish — evocative of nautical fittings weathered by salt air. Zhobai’s in-house designers worked alongside the hotel’s interior architects from mood-board stage through to final sample sign-off.

Guestroom Furniture: Crafting the Signature Dhawa Stay

With four core room categories — Garden View, Premium Ocean View, Pool Access and Deluxe Suite — each requiring its own personality while maintaining a coherent brand voice, the guestroom programme was the heart of the project.

Garden View & Premium Ocean View Rooms (41 m²)

Spread across floors one to five, these 41-square-metre rooms had to feel generous and uncluttered. Zhobai specified a full-height rattan-wrapped wardrobe unit that doubles as a soft visual divider between the entry corridor and the sleeping zone. The king bed platform is crafted from solid ash with an integrated bedside shelf. The writing desk — a signature element in every Dhawa room — is a live-edge ash slab on a powder-coated steel frame, paired with a handwoven rattan-back chair in sand-coloured performance linen. Ocean-view rooms are differentiated by upholstery in a deeper coastal blue to frame the sea panorama beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Every guestroom opens onto a private balcony. Zhobai furnished each with a two-seat teak conversation set and a slatted side table, finished with a UV-resistant oil treatment that maintains the warm honey tone without guest maintenance.

Pool Access Rooms (41 m², Ground Floor)

The 26 pool-access rooms on the ground floor required furniture that transitions seamlessly between interior and outdoor terrace. Zhobai developed a coordinated teak outdoor set — a double sun lounger, a lava-stone composite side table, and two sling chairs — that speaks the same material language as the interior while withstanding the island’s humid subtropical climate. All interior furniture in these rooms carries a marine-grade waterproof treatment on exposed surfaces.

Deluxe Suites (55 m²)

The suite programme required a clearly defined living zone separate from the sleeping area. Zhobai supplied a modular three-seat sofa in warm terracotta performance velvet, two barrel chairs in natural linen with hand-carved wood legs, and a ribbed walnut coffee table referencing volcanic basalt texture. A luggage bench with woven leather strapping and a hand-hammered brass mirror frame complete the suite living area.

Bathroom vanity areas received equal attention. Zhobai supplied a custom double-basin console in honed marble composite with solid brass leg detailing, a freestanding magnifying mirror with an integrated LED ring, and a teak bath mat rack — furnishings that elevate the bathroom experience from functional to ceremonial.

Junior Luxury Rooms

Bridging the standard and suite categories, these rooms feature an expanded lounge corner — a single rattan accent chair with a loose linen cushion, a washi-shade floor lamp, and a smoked oak side table — creating a deliberate pause point where guests can sit away from the desk and take in the island view.

Each guestroom vanity and lounge area was treated as a cohesive composition. Zhobai produced a bespoke vanity stool in solid ash with a hand-stitched saddle-leather seat, paired with a floating walnut shelf — so that even a 41 m² room reads as a unified interior rather than a collection of catalogue pieces.

Public Areas & Food-and-Beverage Furniture

Lobby & Living Lounge

The arrival lobby is open-plan, flooded with natural light, and anchored by a custom semicircular banquette in deep ocean-green boucle. High-backed rattan screens partition the check-in counter from the lounge without closing off sightlines. Low occasional tables in smoked glass and brushed brass surround the seating island. Every upholstered piece is wrapped in Crypton-treated fabric — a practical choice for a beachfront resort where sandy feet are a daily reality.

Restaurant Xi — All-Day Dining

The all-day dining venue serves a Chinese-Western buffet breakfast and an evening a la carte menu celebrating Beihai’s renowned seafood. Zhobai delivered four-top solid ash dining tables with removable inserts for group configuration, bistro-style upholstered side chairs in striped cotton, and curved booth banquettes along the perimeter wall creating semi-private dining alcoves.

Fine Dining & Banquet Spaces

The fine dining hall and multifunctional banquet conference spaces required a more formal register. Zhobai supplied high-back chairs in champagne velvet with brass leg caps, round banquet tables in dark walnut veneer, and a custom bar-back unit in smoked mirror and brushed brass. The 1,700 m² event space was fitted with Zhobai’s stackable banquet chair range in a coordinated finish, ensuring visual consistency across all configurations.

The Zhobai One-Stop Process

Delivering a complete FF&E package for a 236-key resort on a ferry-only island demanded rigorous planning from day one. Zhobai’s project timeline ran across four structured phases:
1. Design Collaboration (Months 1-3): Zhobai’s design team worked alongside the hotel’s architects, producing FF&E schedules, material samples, and 3D visualisations for every room category and public area, reviewed against Dhawa’s brand standards.
2. Custom Manufacturing (Months 4-9): All furniture was produced at Zhobai’s Guangdong workshops under ISO 9001-certified QC. Each batch underwent dimensional inspection, finish durability testing, and fire-retardancy certification per GB 17927. Upholstered pieces received Martindale abrasion testing for high-occupancy performance.
3. Logistics & Island Delivery (Months 10-11): Zhobai consolidated 23 container loads into timed ferry crossings aligned with the hotel’s construction programme, avoiding holding charges and site congestion on the island.
4. On-Site Installation & Snagging (Months 11-12): A Zhobai team of 18 technicians completed room-by-room fit-out over six weeks, followed by a joint pre-opening walkthrough with the hotel’s operations team.
Sustainability & Quality Standards

All solid wood — ash, walnut and teak — carries FSC Chain of Custody certification. Rattan panels are sourced from PEFC-certified plantations in Fujian Province. Water-based lacquers and low-VOC adhesives were specified throughout the guestroom programme, supporting the property’s indoor air quality targets and Green Building Star rating ambitions.

Result

Dhawa Beihai Weizhou Island opened in early 2026, marking a defining moment for leisure tourism on an island long regarded as one of China’s best-kept coastal secrets. As the first internationally branded luxury hotel on Weizhou Island, the property has drawn immediate attention for its design quality. Guest feedback has specifically highlighted the rattan craftsmanship, the balcony furniture experience, and the sense of “local character executed with international precision.”

For Zhobai, the project affirms our one-stop hotel furniture methodology: from the earliest design conversation to the final snagging walk, a single accountable partner managing every aspect of a complex FF&E programme. We are proud to have contributed to a resort redefining luxury coastal travel in South China.

Project Snapshot
- Project: Dhawa Beihai Weizhou Island
- Client: Banyan Tree Group — Dhawa Brand
- Location: Weizhou Island, Beihai, Guangxi, China
- Scale: 236 guestrooms & suites (incl. 26 pool-access rooms)
- Scope: Full FF&E — guestrooms, suites, lobby, all-day dining, fine dining, banquet hall, outdoor areas
- Timeline: 12 months from design to handover
- Opening: Early 2026
- Services: Design collaboration · Custom manufacturing · QC · Island logistics · On-site installation
Planning a similar hotel furniture project? Contact Zhobai to discuss your FF&E requirements.
2026年6月2日