Sebastian Zura

Puerto Beach Club

Location
La Paz, BCS
Year
2023
Typology
Hospitality
Client
TheF*Money
Photography
sebastian zura studio

A beach club in La Paz, Baja California Sur, for TheF*Money in 2023. An oasis in the desert, photographed from its pool and palms to its branding and details.

Looking up at the palm-thatch palapa roof on terrazzo columns and timber beams with woven railings, Puerto Beach Club in La Paz
A graphic Puerto banner on a timber frame above a concrete planter with a palm along the walkway
Palapa-covered terrace with grey sofas around a teak table on stone columns, palm views all around
Terrace corner under a palapa with a woven pendant, grey sofa and teak table open to palms and the turquoise Sea of Cortez
Palm trunks with a small green room sign and red bougainvillea, woven chairs and tables set among them
The two-story palapa tower of the beach club framed by palms above canvas shade sails
A stick-clad cabana with an accessibility sign glimpsed through palm trunks and fronds
Grove of palm trunks in the sand with a carved wood directional sign among agave and desert plants
Covered upper terrace under a palapa on stone columns, grey sofas and a teak table open to palms and the Sea of Cortez
Corridor between tall ocotillo-stick walls with a wood-plank floor dappled with light toward a rope-fringe threshold
Curved plaster sofa with blue cushions and round wood tables facing palapa cabanas among lush palms
Cylindrical woven rattan pendant hanging from a palm-thatch ceiling on timber beams, palms and sky below
Looking up at the palapa roof, radiating palm-thatch panels on timber beams around a woven round pendant
Covered terrace under a palapa with a woven pendant, grey sofas flanking a long teak table and woven railings
Abstract of dappled light through thatch falling on a wood staircase beside an ocotillo-stick wall
A single beach daybed under a canvas sail by a palm, the turquoise bay and a distant sailboat beyond
The beach club seen from the sand, its palapa-topped building framed by palms above shade-sail daybeds
Branding detail of cotton napkins printed with Puerto and small Baja icons on a teak table
Communal teak table set with candle holders and printed napkins, palms and the bay with shade sails beyond
Canvas shade sails on bamboo poles over beach daybeds between palms, the turquoise Sea of Cortez behind
Beach daybed under a canvas shade sail on bamboo poles between two tall palms, the pool and white buildings behind
Detail of a burlap restroom sign with a printed figure hanging on a black-stained stick wall
Restroom under a thatched roof with black ocotillo-stick walls, a dark vanity with stone vessel sinks and cone pendants
Restroom vignette of a green-glazed jar with a dried palm stalk against an ocotillo-stick wall by a rope curtain
Restroom with two stone vessel sinks, leaf-shaped mirrors and cone pendants under a thatched roof and ocotillo-stick walls
Vanity detail with a rough black stone vessel sink, organic mirrors and a black faucet against a stick wall
Palapa cabanas and the bar behind a set teak dining table with woven chairs on the sand
Palapa cabana framed between palms, with white linen curtains, timber posts, a graphic textile and low seating
Long teak communal table set with fringed candle holders and printed napkins by the pool, palms and a round planter beyond
Row of palapa cabanas with thatched gables, rope and linen curtains and the bar, teak dining tables set on the sand
Overhead detail of a fringed glass candle holder on teak beside a dried palm fan and a printed napkin with the logo
Branding detail of a printed mixology menu hanging on a rope-lashed timber post of the palapa bar, framed by palm fronds
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