Pressed against the waterline at Porto Frade, with the Atlantic forest rising sharply behind and the sheltered bay of Angra dos Reis spreading out in front, the site practically demanded a building that would dissolve its own edges. Fasano Angra dos Reis, opened in 2012, was designed by São Paulo architect Isay Weinfeld — whose work for the Fasano family has defined the aesthetic of Brazilian luxury hospitality over two decades — as a low-slung composition of white concrete volumes wrapped in horizontal timber brise-soleil, the warm wood grain softening what might otherwise read as severe modernist geometry against the jungle backdrop. Weinfeld's interiors carry the restrained sensibility consistent across his Fasano commissions: natural-fibre bench seats and ochre throws in the guestrooms, warm-toned hardwood floors, and a headboard wall treatment in vertical timber slats that echoes the facade's rhythm. The restaurant ceiling layers rough-sawn timber planks in a coffered pattern that manages acoustic warmth while framing full-height glazing onto the marina. At the upper pool terrace, limestone paving and teak sun loungers dissolve into an infinity edge with the Serra do Mar mountains stacked behind — a deliberate compositional device that makes the geology of the place feel like designed scenery rather than backdrop. Throughout, the palette holds to sand, honey, and sea-glass turquoise, colours borrowed directly from the bay itself.

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In December 2017 FRAD.E accomplished a new chapter in its history with the unveiling of HOTEL FASANO ANGRA DOS REIS. Internationally renowned as synonym of impeccable quality and service, the new Fasano has 60 spacious apartments, facing the sea and fields, as well as a sophisticated SPA designed over 2 thousand square meters destined for the well-being and treatment for adults and children, a fitness center, a jewelry boulevard and two restaurants conceived distinctively in order to attend different gastronomic moments of the day: one of them with the brand-new CRUDO.