When Pamela Hughes was selected to design The Cloister at Sea Island, the goal was to create a hotel clearly inspired by the original, yet built to a new standard unlike anything they had before, and unlike an experience found anywhere else.

One of the very important spaces to create was the Georgian Room, the resort’s most elegant Dining Room.

“Our charge was to make the Georgian Room look very residential, so that visitors will feel as though they are guests of the Jones family, which they really are. In addition, we wanted to reflect the tradition and heritage of Sea Island in everything we did.” The Georgian Room is uniquely Sea Island with its classical architecture, fine furnishings and pink and green colors.

The Spanish Lounge: Remembering Addison Mizner

For many guests of The Cloister at Sea Island, walking into the resort’s Spanish Lounge is like stepping back in time to an era when austere elegance was everything.

Preserving that feeling was no easy feat — the Spanish Lounge had been dismantled piece by piece, and reconstructed within a brand new Cloister hotel. It was a Herculean task, but last year the Spanish Lounge was reborn, its new location just yards away from the original and rotated by ninety degrees.

Interior designer Pamela Hughes, of Hughes Design Associates, was determined to retain as many vintage elements as she could.

“We wanted to keep everything as close to the original as possible,” she says. “We were very respectful of the history of this room.”