An exclusive community of 27 spacious and elegant private mansions, all in waterfront locations and conceived by the creative team of Philippe Starck and Jean-Michel Gathy. The homes at The Cape stand out with their their unique living pavilions with steeply pitched roof – a salute to traditional Asia yet at the same time utterly modern.

Exotic tropical hardwoods, luxurious textiles and the rich imaginations of Gathy and Starck combine with the 180-degree sea-and-islands panorama to make these homes among the most desirable in the world.

The Villas all sit on plots of between 1 and 5 acres and each, naturally, has a swimming pool, along with reflecting ponds, all surrounded by extensive tropical gardens alive with birds and butterflies.

Owners also have access to the Hotel with its restaurants, bars, fitness centre, as well as a tennis court – everything for those who want a unique lifestyle.

Breeze at Cape Yamu is the award-winning restaurant opened by Campbell Kane in 2012 under the leadership of the Montreal based chef Cheryl Johnson to huge acclaim, regularly being cited as the best restaurant on the island.

With an uncompromising insistence on only the freshest and finest ingredients, Breeze set the standard for innovation with its regularly changing menus and unique combinations of Asian cuisine with classical French techniques/

The legendary high season Long Lazy Sunday brunch, featuring a single table of 40 guests, where free-flowing food and wine is brought to the table over four and a half hours was recognised as one of the Top 5 brunches throughout Asia.

Xavier Charest - continuing the tradition of French-Canadian chefs from Montreal - is now Head Chef at Breeze and is continuing to set new standards of culinary excellence with his team.

The ethereal architecture of homes at The Bay, by KplusK of Hong Kong, plays with light. Sometimes it seems as if there are no walls at all, just cubes of brightness and shade, cubes of air with cool open spaces between. Huge windows bring the outside in, and the inside out.

As the architects themselves put it, “The definition of each villa is light, the relationship of the architecture with sun, sea and sky is intense. This lightness of approach offers many ways for each owner to personalize the way in which to live in them. It is liberating.”

The villas range in interior space from 253 square meters to 470 (four bedrooms), with external living areas of as much as 460 square meters. Land plots range up to 1,900 square metres, some of them with sea views to both south and north.

Stunning views of the Andaman Sea perfectly complement these modern masterpieces.