Solstice is a wellness hospitality design studio — spatial and sensory design, acoustic and scent zoning, wellness strategy, programming and production for hotels, spas and retreats. Wellness is why they choose you, and why they stay longer: designed into the building, not bolted on. Solstice by Solaris · wellness design studio · London.
Wellness spaces lack a consistent customer journey, focusing on areas that photograph well. They are often not integrated with the surrounding building or site.
We think the space should become a threshold — to transport the customer before they even book a treatment. The light. The materials. The way you move through it. What you hear, and what you don't. These are moments that actually let a body settle, and they're the things most projects leave out.
Solstice starts here. We work with the people & the body to build the next wave of wellness spaces — hotels, retreats, sensory spaces, members' clubs, brands — from the first idea to the finished space and the lasting memory.
But it only works when it's real — when the space is built around genuine rest, not the look of it.
Get that right and it shows up where it counts: longer stays, higher spend, guests who return and bring people with them. A space that makes people feel something is the one they tell their friends about. That's what we're here to design.
From the first strategy to the finished space and the events that keep it alive, we work across six areas — including acoustic zoning: how a room sounds, and where sound is allowed to travel. Most projects draw on a few of them at once.
The space itself — designed around rest, ritual, and the way a body moves.
Light, sound, scent, texture, temperature — composed as one atmosphere, and zoned so quiet stays quiet.
Bringing a wellness dimension to a brand, a launch, or a moment.
The thinking before the build — what wellness should mean here, and how it pays.
The living calendar that keeps a space alive after opening.
Making it real — on time, on budget, to standard.
Most projects start with a conversation, not a contract. Work with us →
Every project starts with a conversation, and most start with The Reading.
A fixed-fee starting point.
For venues deciding what wellness should be for them.
A focused study of your space, your guests, and the opportunity — delivered as a clear concept and a roadmap you can act on, with or without us.
A full design engagement.
For venues building or renovating a space.
Spatial and sensory design from concept to fabrication-ready, with production oversight if you want us to see it through.
A named, time-boxed season.
For venues who want a reason for guests to book this quarter.
One season, built around a single theme and — where it earns its place — a partner brand. Designed, programmed and produced end to end, then handed over with everything your team needs to run it again.
Ongoing, quarterly.
For a space that's open and needs to stay alive.
The living layer — events, residencies, activations, and brand partnerships — programmed and produced on a rolling basis.
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From understanding the space to what stays with a guest long after they've left — and what brings them back.
Seven stages, one continuous arc that loops back on itself — tap any orb to see how it plays out.
The full portfolio lives with the parent studio. Enter Solaris — selected work →
We design for the nervous system before the camera. If a space photographs well but doesn't calm the body, it isn't finished.
A stay is a sequence of thresholds. We choreograph each one — arrival, bathing, rest — so the journey feels inevitable.
Stone that reads as stone. Linen, water and light left to behave like themselves — nothing dressed up as something else.
Fewer commissions, held longer. The work is built to age with the building — not to launch and fade.
Light as circadian choreography. Material as memory. Threshold as ritual. We design the felt logic of a stay — so the space, not the marketing, does the work.
Let's get clear on your space.
Tell us what you're building — a spa, a retreat, a whole hotel — and we'll show you how we'd design it around the people who'll use it.
Tell me a little about what you're building — a spa, a retreat, a hotel floor, a one-off activation — and I'll come back to you personally. Or book a call below.
That's Iunia M. Borsa, Founder & Creative Director. Prefer email? Write directly: solstice@entersolaris.com
