Cent'Anni Boutique Hotel

A toast

In Italy there is a toast that is raised at every table worth sitting at. Cent'anni — a hundred years. It does not ask for a long life so much as a beautiful one; it is a wish that the moment in hand might go on and on. On a quiet stretch of beach at Batu Belig, creamy walls and arches gather around their pools and open, like a piazza, to the sea. Each quarter of the hotel is designed as a house of its own, named for a city of Italy, its terraces and colours drawn from a coast where hospitality was once simply the art of making a stranger feel at home. Cent'Anni Boutique Hotel returns to that art. Nothing here needs explaining. The days are long, the welcome is warm, and the glass is always raised to the next hundred years.

Guests at the restaurant terrace at Cent'Anni, teak chairs and white linen at sunset

The house by the sea

Long before there were hotels, there were houses by the sea that kept a room for travellers. The table was set for whoever arrived, the wine was poured before it was asked for, and time was measured by the tide rather than the clock. Cent'Anni is built in that tradition. Behind its creamy plaster and open arches the hotel unfolds like a little house in an Italian town — Trieste, Napoli, Roma, Milano, Venezia — each with its own colours and its own character, all sharing one idea: that a guest is a person to be looked after, not a number to be processed. Marble and linen. Lemons, fruits and olives printed on canvas and linen. A bar cabinet in every room, a terrace for every sunset, and two pools stepping down to the ocean. The old houses knew that the details are the welcome. Such is the design of Cent'Anni.

The lagoon pool at Cent'Anni in the morning, loungers under umbrellas and a waiter bringing coffee

Five houses

Each quarter of the hotel takes its name, its colours and its character from an Italian city.

Trieste
The square that faces the sea; white marble, sky blue, a little yellow.
Napoli
The harbour house beside the restaurant; navy, red, and a louder laugh.
Roma
Behind the square; deep green, plum, and a library light.
Milano
Beside Roma; sharp, green and burgundy, dressed for the evening.
Venezia
The low house on the lagoon; gold, red, water on both sides.

The family

The hotels we remember most fondly were the ones run by a family, and you could feel it before you could say why. It was in the way the door was held, the name remembered from the driver's car, the coffee that arrived before it was ordered. Cent'Anni will not be run by a family. It will be run as one. Behind the arches there is a long table where the whole house eats together — cooks, hosts, gardeners, owners — the same fish, the same bread, before the doors open and after they close. For the people who work here there is a staff canteen that never quite shuts, a gym, a barber, an hour of rest in the middle of the day: not perks, but the plain conditions of hospitality. A chef who is allowed to cook, and a barman who is allowed to talk. The rule of the house is short, and it was written before the plans were: pamper your team, and they will pamper your guests. Everything a guest feels here was felt first by the people who serve them.

The people

Cent'Anni is the work of two founders who have, between them, poured the drinks and counted the money.

Portrait to come

Raffaele Hartmann

Co-founder & Chief Executive

Half Austrian, half Italian, and in hospitality since he first cleared tables at sixteen. Two decades across Europe, the Middle East and Asia: Formula 1 and Champions League hospitality with Do & Co, the British Museum, the America's Cup in Valencia, then hotel and restaurant concepts as a consultant. In Bali since 2018, where he founded Studio Trieste and Balcone Hospitality Management. He hand-drew Cent'Anni himself.

Portrait to come

Matthew Saul

Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer

Twenty-two years in banking and asset management in Melbourne and Hong Kong, latterly head of Asian equities trading at Fidelity Investments. Moved to Bali with his family in 2019, where he is founder and owner of Kayu Village Resort and has built businesses in property, hospitality and transport. The partner who makes the numbers behave.

With Emir Hakim, partner for investor and government relations, whose two decades in Indonesian branding and media shape how the hotel tells its story.

Batu Belig

Four thousand square metres on the beach promenade at Batu Belig, between Seminyak and Canggu, with the W and Potato Head as neighbours. The sea in front, the lanes of Petitenget behind, and the whole of the south coast within an easy drive.

Seminyak: 5 minutes
Canggu: 20 minutes
Ngurah Rai International Airport: 45 minutes
Ubud: 90 minutes
Land: 4,050 m², beachfront
Keys: 71 penthouses, suites and rooms

Batu Belig · Petitenget · Bali

The opportunity

The most sought-after corner of the hotel industry is now its smallest: the boutique hotel, where a guest is known by name. The large groups know it, and buy such places once they succeed; they are rarely able to build them, because what makes them work was never written in a manual. Cent'Anni is a founder's hotel — drawn, financed and run by the people whose names are above — on a stretch of coast that will not be built on twice. We are looking for partners who care about the old traditions of hospitality, who see what a hotel of this kind would mean in this part of the world, and who would like to be part of a place still raising its glass in a hundred years.

Structured for returns. Designed for legacy.

Cent'Anni opens in 2028. For a conversation about the hotel, its design, or the opportunity to be part of it, write to us.

Write to us ciao@centanni.id