What continent am I on? I ask myself as they check me in with pen and paper. There is no computerized check-in process here. Messages are individually delivered to villas, bungalows, and guest houses. There is no state-of-the art anything. No television. No email checking. No alarm clock in room. However, you can watch movies outside near candle-lit pool and outdoor fireplaces.

Relish European tradition of nightly bed turndowns with a chocolate treat and fresh flowers on your linens. Savor a homemade breakfast with freshly squeezed juice from ornamental citrus trees growing right outside your room. Refresh from desert sun in cool waterfalls of stone fountain. Allow Korakia’s therapist Michael and Patty to treat you to soothing massage modalities: couples massage, zen shiatzu, reflexology, Energy Works, or The Korakia Combination. Let time stand still as you engage in conversation or relax in seclusion until sun kisses mountains.

The key-hole grand entrance to lobby houses huge, intricately-detailed wooden French doors left open to unify indoors with outdoors. A warm, citrus breeze drifts in from front courtyard and demands my attention to look up and examine stone paved courtyard and exotic central fountain.

French doors on opposite side are also left wide open, framing a custom-designed mosaic pool (with a crow at bottom of pool!). Fallen bougainvillaea petals surround trees. Everything in me - writer, dreamer, artist, photographer, explorer, individual - sensorizes. Famous celebrities, renowned photographers, leading publications, supermodels, and designers travel to this Mediterranean-but-in-the-U.S.A. location for inspiration, too! Nothing is set up, staged, or propped. Everywhere I turn is a perfect photo op or artist’s lookout point. Mix in Moroccan music, heavily-spiced tea, and pine nuts for a transporting exprience!

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The Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa also has largest banquet and conference facilities in Arizona and has won many prestigious awards. With its numerous extensive renovations, this resort remains as a Four Star tribute to natural beauty melded with outstanding architecture. Many places claim to be influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural style, but this resort is real thing that guests return to year after year.

Each building and guest room expresses Frank Lloyd Wright's attention to meshing interior design with exterior architecture in a harmonious fashion.

For example, up lit second level elevation in Mayan temple-like resort lobby draws your attention upward to 376,000 shimmering 4" x 4" gold and copper leaves that were hand applied to two-story 38,000 square foot ceiling as they reflect both natural and artificially created light. The backlit glass "Biltmore Blocks" throughout this huge space provides soft indirect lighting while perpetuating geometric palm tree motif.

Often, these Biltmore Blocks, signature of Arizona Biltmore, are interchanged and rotated to create various geometric patterns throughout entire resort. The warm earth tones of gold, green, taupe, yellow, rust and tan give a soothing calm to numerous conversation seating areas, carpeting, rugs and wallpaper.

The desert colored high-backed chairs create what Frank Lloyd Wright would call, "a room within a room" and provide intimacy while still amid hustle and bustle of huge lobby. Sturdy copper tables in various shapes with glass or granite table tops anchor heavy woven fabric covered chairs, while low wide leather ottomans resting within niches soften texture of gray poured concrete block walls and create volume.

Wood craftsman and mission-style furnishings and textiles provide a sense of luxury while resting on carpeting and area rugs with repeating geometric shapes. Brightly colored blue, green, orange and red original geometric stained glass windows provide fun splashes of color.

As typical with many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, horizontal glass windows are plentiful and allow natural light in and shadows to be created throughout different times of day as light plays with natural pottery, candles, and sculptures. The varying textures of art glass doors obscure shapes and invite you to touch and experience luxury of space. The large wood planked floor helps to give an earthy, natural presence to space. It is easy to explore, experience and be one with this interior design as it draws you in and helps you escape and be immune from all troubles in world as you faintly hear ivories on baby grand piano being tickled off in distance.

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