A 1968 cliff mansion in Joá turned into a seven-suite boutique hotel.
La Suite by Dussol occupies a 1968 mansion on the cliffs of Joá, the small gated-villa neighborhood between São Conrado and Barra da Tijuca. The house hangs over the ocean with a 180-degree view that takes in São Conrado and Ipanema beaches, the Tijuca forest, the Christ statue and the Cagarras islands.
French owners François-Xavier and Jacques Dussol renovated the house into a seven-suite guesthouse, each suite color-themed, with a clifftop pool and gardens. It is listed in the Michelin Guide's hotel selection and is the best-known commercial address in an otherwise purely residential neighborhood — useful shorthand for what Joá real estate is: private houses on rock, facing open ocean.
Address: Rua Jackson de Figueiredo 501, Joá, Rio de Janeiro
The mansion was built in 1968, in the first generation of luxury houses that followed the opening of the Estrada do Joá and, soon after, the Elevado do Joá linking the Zona Sul to Barra da Tijuca. The Dussols' conversion brought the by-Dussol hospitality brand to Rio and turned the house into one of the city's most photographed small hotels.
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