The Feel of Sunlight

H&M HOME Brings Palm Heights into the Everyday

There are places that linger long after the suitcase is unpacked. Palm Heights is one of them. Now, in collaboration with H&M HOME, the spirit of the Cayman Islands’ most captivating beachfront retreat is finding new form—woven, glazed, and striped—across a 23-piece capsule collection launching this June.

Creative Director Gabriella Khalil, the mind behind Palm Heights’ unmistakable identity, distills the glamour and warmth of her Grand Cayman address into a series of objects designed not just to decorate, but to evoke. Think yellow and brown cabana stripes pulled from beach umbrellas, sculptural ceramics in mineral tones, and cotton robes that feel like early morning sun on the skin.

The result is less about reproduction than interpretation. A translation of the hotel's laid-back rhythm into forms fit for everyday rituals: a teak candleholder, a fan in rattan and black lacquer, a checkered backgammon set waiting for friends. Each item carries a bit of that Palm Heights mood—easy, radiant, and just the right amount of retro.

Inspired by the Caribbean of the 1970s—photographed, imagined, and now, remembered—this collection doesn’t lean on nostalgia. It uses it. References to Slim Aarons and Grace Jones feel less aesthetic than atmospheric. They color the edges of the story rather than define its plot.

It’s a conversation between two distinct worlds: H&M HOME’s Scandinavian clarity and Khalil’s layered, sunlit palette. Together, they find a tone that feels both new and familiar—vacation not as a break from reality, but as a soft overlay to it.

There’s intention in the smallest details: towels edged with checkered trims, diffusers scented with cedar, plum and tobacco, pitchers in warm-toned glass. Even the packaging nods to the beachfront, echoing the yellow that lines the shore.

For Khalil, this collection is an invitation—to bring that feeling of place into moments at home. “A robe in your bathroom. A dinner with friends. Something tactile, joyful, unhurried,” she says. The idea isn’t to recreate the hotel, but to share its atmosphere. A postcard you can hold. A pattern you can live with.

Some souvenirs are bought. Others are built.