Signature Luxury Travel & Style

VIETNAM TWO WAYS

Alow supermoon hangs over the sea, lending an otherworldly glow to the jazz-funk quartet playing under the stars. A few steps away, in air-conditioned comfort, guests watch on and sip alchemical cocktails under a rotunda ceiling decorated with the periodic table of elements. This is the Department of Chemistry, part of the Université Lamarck, an institution named in honour of French naturalist, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and founded in 1894 on the idyllic Vietnamese fishing island of Phu Quoc.

Well, that’s the story we’re told. Université Lamarck is actually the brainchild of designer Bill Bensley, who was given free reign at the sumptuous pastel fantasy that is JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay Resort & Spa. It seems to answer the question, what happens when you offer

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