The sleek Silver Line aluminum and teak chaise from Tropitone's Veneman Collection was inspired by Scandinavian design.
JASON ZINOMAN (Undine, a smartly dressed, late-30-something African-American woman, sits behind a large teak desk, sporting a sleek telephone headset).
Mr. Vanderbyl, whose Archetype collection has been a hit for Baker, brought out a sleek set of outdoor furniture in teak, aluminum and cloth webbing for McGuire.
A dark teak-encased Murphy bed and a sleek and compact kitchen are ingenious space savers.
Also in Phuket, the Indigo Pearl (www.indigo-pearl.com), designed by Bill Bensley, the Bangkok-based architect largely responsible for defining contemporary Southeast Asian luxury style, is sleek yet comfortable, with nods to Phuket's colorful past: dark teak and peaked roofs are offset by clean swaths of blocky white walls.
The sleek frames, wrought in marine-grade stainless steel with hidden wheels, have the slightest teak trim along the sides or arms, and the fabric comes in gold, titanium or black.
Disparate styles can be visually linked through a common characteristic like color, material, scale or form (i.e., a red Ming chair beside a red Magistretti lounger, a midcentury teak side table next to a teak tea cabinet from Sri Lanka, a slick Artemide lamp atop a sleek Ruhlmann desk).
The teak house restaurant, all white chairs and glass-topped black tables in the garden, offers fusion, Thai and Vietnamese food, as well as cocktails in the sleek surrounds.
Sleek, squished-capsule shape.
