Although the iconic Hotel Bora Bora closed in 2008, Nicolas Malleville and Francesca Bonato have been slowly repurposing pieces of it for an exclusive tropical getaway
Bora Bora can seem a clichéd vision of paradise with its honeymoon hideaways, resort breakfast buffets, tiki cocktails and Polynesian dinner revues.
Purchased by Aman Resorts in 1988, it was still going strong when Malleville visited Bora Bora for the first time in the late ’90s. Though he stayed at a campsite, he visited the Hotel Bora Bora for drinks.The hotel, which shut down in 2008, continued to capture Malleville’s imagination when he returned to the atoll in 2014, already scouting, he says, for the “next extension of Coqui Coqui," the hospitality brand and fragrance line he runs with Benato.
In 2016, following the death of his father and the loss of the Coqui Coqui Tulum Axchilatlan, the dream of a South Pacific garden drove Malleville and family to French Polynesia, where he found a second plot he couldn’t resist, 13,000 square feet on the beach. They live with their children in one bungalow, above the new Coqui Coqui textile and jewelry shop. They plan to open a one-suite hotel next to their home.The furniture throughout the property, which they’ve christened Motu Déjà Vu Residence by Coqui Coqui, was almost entirely sourced from Bora Bora’s many shuttered or newly renovated resorts.The guest suite is almost exactly as it would have been at the Hotel Bora Bora, from bathtub to bed frames, wood blinds to wall art.
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