Suite 25 years

APRIL 2014 • NUMBER 169

QUALIFICARE L’OSPITALITÀ TO QUALIFY YOUR HOSPITALITY

25 YEARS and more

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Thomas Alva Edison was the first one to declare that the Genius is the result of “5% inspiration and 95% perspiration” and then, in the course of the years, many other people have supported the same thought.

During these first 25 years of life, Suite narrated the changes and mutations in the hotel world, trying to set off that 95% of effort that is not always visible. Behind a surprising architectonical impact or an amazing interior a work of engineering, attention, and research on the correct feasibility always stays, and Suite have tried, and always will try, to set off this “invisible” part of the design.

Suite talked about Italian designers who have conquered the world and about foreign architects who have left a sign with the “made in Italy” and about companies which have stopped the time through a long journey which has signed the legs of ideas, projects, materials and technologies and of the “first times”.

In the last pages of this issue we wanted to give a sign from the future, presenting the advance information about many projects which are on the point to transform into reality.

A special thank to all the companies which have supported us and which, luckily continue to do it: without them all Suite will not exist. This issue will be translated in English and in a consultable digital format will be on line available on www.

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We will keep on working hard and honestly, we will keep on investing in human resources of excellence, in research, in productive innovation and in management streamlining to better face the future challenges we will have to take on.

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YEAR 1989 SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS Graham SUITE 4, NOVEMBER 1989 Hosted by a tower-shaped building 68-metre tall, the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Malmö, Sweden, imposes itself across the contemporary hospitality industry with its architecture and interior design. Located within the spacious glass ground floor, an impressing lobby surprises guests with its modern furnishings that lend vitality to small areas. The green isles act as space dividers and decorative elements at the same time. This hospitality climax includes panoramic elevators on the building façade and a top floor that functions as a lounge and fitness centre.

HOTEL BUONCONSIGLIO Studio di Architettura Maurizio Ambrosini SUITE 5, DECEMBER 1989 Hotel Buonconsiglio of Trento has its interior redesigned based on the new market exigencies, with the goal of transforming the current three-star structure into a four-star one for business travellers. The services newly added to the interior of the building include a TV viewing room, a reading room, and a bar and breakfast room—all with minimalist and modern furnishings and neutral colours. The refurbishment also covers the technological aspect, with the hotel acquiring advanced systems of fire management and security.

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GRAND HOTEL DES BAINS Sophia Piastopulu SUITE 3, SEPTEMBER 1989 The Grand Hotel des Bains of Riccione is born as the first five-star hotel of this Romagna Riviera city, and as the first hotel in the city to remain open year-round, irrespective of the holiday peak season. Pursuing this goal means offering a high standard of services in order to make the most out of the new opportunities provided by the convention and economic tourism. The innovative structure is later completed with the timely addition of installations, equipment, and management systems.

HOTEL BRUNELLESCHI Studio Meda-Montanari SUITE 1, FEBRUARY 1989 The Hotel Brunelleschi in Milan is renovated based on various market opportunities, and reopens as a five-star hotel, taking a significant category leap. The project involved major technological upgrades to attain the utmost living and environmental comfort. New management systems were introduced, the administrative tasks were computerized, and hotel’s common and private areas were completely redesigned.

The rooms were enlarged, furnished with high-quality materials, and decorated in a formal, classical style.

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he new area of the Art Museum A. Michener in Doylestown reserved for special events is opened in Penn-

sylvania, USA. The Edgar N. Putman Event Pavillon is a refined structure designed by the architect Kieran Timberlake completely covered with glass and it houses a wide garden with sculpture which is the location of the Patricia D. Pfundt Museum. Designed by the architect Kieran Timberlake, the Event Pavillon shows an ambitious utilization of structural panes of glass which create a dialogue without a break between the interior part of the museum and the external one which overlooks the garden and the high walls of the old prison.

Targetti, leader company in the International market of architectural illuminations for interior and exterior was entrusted with illuminate the walls using a smooth light which underlines the texture of the stone. The used device is the linear built-in Mercure with asymmetrical projector which permits to uniformly light up the high wall for all their height. A smooth effect which doesn’t abuse the expositive space but maintains unchanged the dialogue between interior and exterior.

TARGETTI REVOLUTIONIZES THE UP-LIGHT CONCEPT Zoom and Gimbal are the names of the two version of Keplero, the new revolutionary inground for the outdoor spaces illumination presented in a preview by Targetti in occasion of the Light + Building in Frankfurt. Using Keplero Zoom, 32W of power, the choice of the light effect could occur in any moment, even afterwards the installation. Three options of movement – extraction – translation – rotation – permit to the projector to assume different configurations and to generate innumerable light effects. Any movement is guided by graduated arched lintel in order to facilitate the pointing recognizability on in line installations. Only 12W of power and optimized performances for the Gimbal version. This device is equipped with a special LED card ad hoc produced and characterized by 4 chips equipped with acrylic lenses which empower the emission and permit to project defined and precise beams available in three different beam opening.

Thanks to its capacity of illuminating surfaces (façade, bell towers, sculptures) even 30 meters far, this device could be considered a real professional projector.

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Keplero Gimbal

2014 Ci abbiamo creduto e continuiamo a crederci We’ve always believed in it and continue to even now Una storia quella di Newform fatta di innovazione nella tecnologia e nel design.

Grazie ad una consolidata esperienza nell’affiancare ai più moderni processi produttivi digitali, fasi di lavorazione e di rifinitura artigianali, Newform si eleva a complemento di arredo che comunica l’eccellenza italiana: ogni prodotto diviene sintesi di qualità, stile, design.

The story of Newform is one of innovation in technology and design. Owing to consolidated experience in coupling handcrafted manufacture and finishes to the most modern digital processes, Newform elevates to furnishing accessories that are an expression of Italian excellence: every product becomes a synthesis of quality, style and design.

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YEAR 1990 HOTEL IL PALAZZO Shigero Uchida with Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata, Gaetano Pesce, Ikuyo Mitsuhashi, and Alfredo Arrribas SUITE 10, OCTOBER 1990 That of Hotel Il Palazzo of Fukuoka is an exemplary story. It is almost a modern-day re-enactment of unique events from the past—those when groups of architects, artists, and decorators were called to different places to celebrate the peak of economic and cultural supremacy of a nation, of its people, or simply of a prince. Similarly, to create an innovative hospitality structure in Japan, Mitsuhiro Kuzawa, manager endowed with great capabilities, designates Shigeru Uchida as art director of the entire project, and concurrently appoints a group of renowned professionals as collaborators, in a collective experiment aimed to redefine the classical image of the hotel. Uchida’s collaborators are Aldo Rossi, Ikuyo Mitsuhashi, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata, Gaetano Pesce, and Alfredo Arribas—and each is assigned a specific part of the project.

Aldo Rossi is the architect in charge of the design of the new building, to which he lends a recognizable Italian style: the large columns, the stairway, and the piazza are nothing but a metaphor of large Italian aristocrat houses, keepsakes of times gone by. The base of the building hosts the entrance

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to the complex and a long pathway called La Galleria, along which are the bar, the disco, and the restaurant, and which connects to the lobby by stairs and elevators. The main entrance faces the piazza, which, like in many Italian cities, becomes an integral part of the building architecture.

Shigeru Uchida, the project coordinator, is also responsible for the design of the lobby and of the restaurant Il Palazzo. In his project, he follows in the steps of Aldo Rossi in lending an Italian appearance to the design.

Even inside the building, the columns act as space dividers. The prevalent colours are brown, a certain shade of red given by the wood, and onyx green. Together with Ikuyo Mitsuhashi, Shigero Uchida completes the rest of the common areas of the hotel and especially the rooms with furnishings and equipment characterised by an overall international style mixed with Japanese-inspired particulars.

The four bars for the guests are designed by Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata, Aldo Rossi, and Gaetano Pesce, respectively, who create four different and contrasting results. Ettore Sottsass calls his bar Zibibbo, recalling Southern Italy, Sicily, and Pantelleria through yellow and blue hues. Oblomov, Kuramata’s bar, is defined by slender transparent columns that act as either lamps or feet of transparent tables. The bar of Gaetano Pesce recalls the waterways of Venice, resembling a labyrinth of paths that seem to be chasing each other over an area of 144 square metres. Finally, El Dorado is Aldo Rossi’s gift to Il Palazzo; the Spanish name referring to the mythical gold city in northern South America denotes here the golden bar shelves that match the main façade.

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YEAR 1991 CARLYLE BRERA HOTEL Studio Dini-Cappelli SUITE 19, OCTOBER 1991 Located in Brera, the central quarter of Milan, the Carlyle Hotel features a particular technological façade, built for the first time in Italy. The building is covered by 5-millimetre thick natural granite slabs mounted on panels made of several functional layers with high mechanical strength. Inside, the hospitality facility is warm and welcoming, with wooden furnishings in calming hues. The hotel tends to feature large bathrooms, with this space becoming a place where the traveller can relax and feel comfortable—thus, its importance in how a guest perceives the room is not be neglected.

STARHOTEL PRESIDENT SUITE 12, FEBRUARY 1991 Starhotels disembarks in Genoa in a key moment for the economic and touristic revival of the city, finding its place in the so-called Corte Lambruschini, a complex of glass and concrete towers facing the old fruit and vegetable market of the city. Simultaneously offering services for business meetings, conventions, and conferences, the structure represents a novel element not to be neglected. By installing a centralised air conditioning system both for the common areas and for the 198 rooms, the hotel demonstrates great technological innovation..

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HOTEL SPADARI Ugo La Pietra SUITE 18, AUGUST 1991 Hotel Spadari opens in Milan as a small business hotel that chooses the “aesthetical experience” as its trademark and reinvents itself as a place promoting art. A group of artists are given the task to craft a series of artworks capable of personalising the areas of the hotel and especially those of the rooms, while Giò Pomodoro creates the large fireplace wall at the entrance and Ugo La Pietra the interior design. Thus, the accommodation facility defines its identity, achieves a high level of personalization, and in the process it becomes an authentic art gallery at the services of its clients and of inquisitive city dwellers.

PALAZZO VENDRAMIN HOTEL CIPRIANI Studio di Architettura Fabris & Poli, Gerard Gallet SUITE 19, OCTOBER 1991 The fifteenth-century Palazzo Vendramin – Hotel Cipriani opens its door to guests with a peculiar and novel proposition. The new structure offers large suites designed as true apartments complemented by the traditional services of a large hotel. Thus, the structure functions as private accommodation where each unit is different from the others and each is superbly decorated in a typical Venetian style that hides cleverly from the sight the modern installations and soundproofing systems.

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POLTRONA FRAU E GRIMSHAW ARCHITECTS PRESENT THE PLANETARIUM CHAIR

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ith an absolute worldwide preview, Poltrona Frau e Grimshaw Architects present

the Planetarium Chair, which is specifically designed for the new museum of Science in Miami, the “Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science”. The official presentation is integrated with the Elements installation, an event-exposition which will take place in the evocative space of the Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia in Milan from the 8th to the 13th of April.

Poltrona Frau is a Grimshaw studio partner for two projects which will be presented during the Elements event: the “Empac Conference Center” located in Troy, New York, and the already mentioned “Phillip

techniques fields. The museum houses a

of the Planetarium Chair. This chair, with a

Frost Museum of Science” of Miami. This

planetarium with 250 Planetarium chairs,

mixed structure in wood and iron, will be

latter project, designed by Grimshaw for

a system of laser projection and a dome-

produced with different inclinations in order

both the external building and the fur-

shaped screen which could reproduce

to guarantee the maximum availability to

nishing choices, is a monumental work

every point of the discovered universe.

everybody attending the presentations

which will bring to Miami city a permanent

Since the beginning, the central element

which will take place inside the museum.

museum space of about 25.000 square

of the Grimshaw activity was the design

The technical team of Poltrona Frau,

meters with courses, exhibitions and

of industrial design components, a know-

scheduled events both in the science and

how transferred in the research and design

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both public and private.

The knowledge of the most advanced technologies, the most severe tests on security, the research on the acoustic and visibility fundamental both for theatres and auditorium are combined with the intelligence of the hands. A craft wisdom which permits to the Poltrona Frau team to make concrete the thought and creativity of the designer in detail. Always from a contract tailoring and turnkey service point of view which includes all the phases from the engineering, to the prototype, to the installation and to the post sale assistance. The research and development department of PEG Contract makes a use of ISO certified laboratories to perform tests on acoustic and on the resistance to thermic variations.

The development of more complex chair following the instructions of Grimshaw

and innovative product which can guaran-

systems is based on an experience which

Studio, succeeded in engineering a chair

tee the perfect comfort.

is in continuous evolution. An international

able to satisfy the high waits of customers,

A craft tradition for over 500 projects

reputation which, since the beginning,

creating a dynamic and fascinating space

Poltrona Frau has a long tradition in high

shows Poltrona Frau Contract to work

and an highly edifying learning experience.

quality chair manufacturing. International

alongside legendary architects. From Gio

Once again, Poltrona Frau has actively

audiences have directly appreciated the

Ponti to Richard Meier, from Jean Nouvel

taken part to the creative development

comfort, the design and the elegance of

to Sir Norman Foster and Frank Gehry.

of a product designed by an International

the chairs produced by Poltrone Frau for

More than 500 projects in more than 20

architectural study making concrete the

the most famous theatres and concert

countries, 20 collections of customizing

philosophy in a chair characterized by

halls, embassies, five stars hotels and

chairs, 1200 conformity certificates, to

complex engineering features, an unique

many other typologies of collective spaces

realize dreams and ideas of the most famous architects of the contemporary scene. Among the most recent projects there are the International Congress Centre of Algiers, with 7.000 chairs and the Aalborg House of Music designed by

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YEAR 1992 NOVOTEL E IBIS MILANO Studio Dini-Capelli Architettura SUITE 22, FEBRUARY 1992 The French hotel chain Accor brings to Milan its most well-known brands, Novotel and Ibis, and inserts them in a single structure at the gates of Milan, endorsing the idea of standardized hotels to guarantee the achievement of optimal hotel functionality, organization, and management. The hospitality facility establishes itself in the Milanese landscape as a “hotel of certainties”, or a place offering guests uniformly distributed amenities. Here each room is a unity of comfort and technology identical to all other Accor hotel rooms in the world—a hospitality approach previously unexplored in Italy.

SAN PAOLO PALACE SUITE 26, JUNE 1992 In Palermo, the San Paolo Palace targets simultaneously both leisure and convention tourism market sectors, becoming an unmistakable sign of revival for the Sicilian city and a stimulus for the seaside economy. The 14-storey hotel assigns some of its collective purposes to the last floor, intensifying the aesthetic appeal of the surrounding geography. However, the distinctiveness of the structure resides in the remarkable attention paid to the construction and choice of materials, surfaces, furnishings, and technologies, all ensuring highest quality fittings.

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HOTEL DUCA Aldo Rossi SUITE 24, APRIL 1992 In the Milanese piazza of five-star hotels, Hotel Duca is reborn after the major restructuring undertaken by the Aldo Rossi design studio, which completely transforms the obsolete architecture. The new façade, elevated on a grey granite base, alternates white Carrara marble with large windows while the brick crown of the building brings to mind the many unfinished Lombard churches. Behind the façade, 45 suites and 99 junior suites are decorated in pure Victorian style with wallpaper and upholstery made of luxurious floral fabrics. The atmosphere is calm and quiet, revealing the homely feeling of the new hotel.

HOTEL BLAKES Anouska Hempel SUITE 29, OCTOBER 1992 What appears to be a Victorian townhouse is in reality an intimate and sought-after hotel. The Hotel Blakes in London offers the luxury of an old mansion, combining in sophisticated ways antique furniture and Asian decorative objects.

Each room is individually designed in a style from a different époque, in shades of blue-grey, black, dark green, cream, or pink. Anouska Hempel intended to create a place that would provide the connoisseur travellers with a choice of various “atmospheres” from which the clients could choose their ephemeral residence according to the mood of the moment.

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YEAR 1993 SOFITEL FIRENZE Jean Quesneville SUITE 34, JUNE 1993 In Florence, the first hotel of the Sofitel chain in Italy is born within a historical building nearby the Santa Maria Novella church. The hotel promptly identifies the main features of a contemporary hotel in terms of comfort and services and encloses them inside a restored structure. Soundproofing, air conditioning, and automatic management systems are the innovative features that the project involved, along with simple yet sophisticated interior designing, to achieve state-of-the-art hospitality capable of forerunning the future.

HOTEL LES THERMES Jean Nouvel SUITE 39, OCTOBER 1993 Designed by Jean Nouvel, the Hotel Les Thermes in Dax completely reinvents the concept of therapeutic tourism, inaugurating a new era. Thus, the therapeutic experience is transferred within a very distinctive environment that fuses architecture, science, and nature in the name of complete wellness, enclosed in a dynamic wrap where red cedar wood sunshades seem to mark the rhythm. The rooms are conceived as open studios, which seem to be connected to both the city life and the area dedicated to wellness. Moreover, the rooms can be extended by opening the French doors, creating a large loggia.

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GRAND HOTEL MASSERIA Architects Ascarelli, Macciocchi, Nicolao & Parisio SUITE 34, JUNE 1993 Located along the Marina di Ostuni, the Grand Hotel Masseria is a structure with a discrete touch of modern design. The complex is a unit composed of different, architectonically independent elements where the historical rural building sits next to an extension distinguishable for its shape and materials—aluminium, iron, and copper. The innovative hotel encloses the most modern solutions on the market; the furnishings stand out from the neutral colours of the walls and floors, creating a minimalist and Mediterranean atmosphere.

FOUR SEASON HOTEL MILANO The Pfister Partnership SUITE 39, OCTOBER 1993 It was a former antique monastery with a four-sided portico courtyard, lying forgotten in the heart of the Milanese fashion quarter and facing via del Gesù. In 1993, it becomes the Four Season Hotel Milan, after a long project that accurately preserved the fifteenth-century details and elements, and reconsidered the extraordinary space layout. The hall is hosted by the fifteenth-century church, while the rooms are distributed along the inner courtyard, now turned into a garden. With colouring and lighting chosen specifically as a way of restoring the place’s distinct atmosphere of sober elegance, the spaces tell the story of their extraordinary heritage—a unique and memorable one.

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STARPOOL: THE WELLNESS WITH A GREEN SOUL

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and to white crystal).

the user and last but not least energy

Spa designing, with 39 years

The buttonhole is represented by LINEA

saving. All the products of the Starpool

of experiences behind, for the

SMART (SweetSteamSmart, SweetSau-

SweetCollection are equipped with the

second time Starpool returns to the

naSmart Infrared and SweetSaunaSmart

“Green Pack”, a set of functions for a

Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014

Combi), products to live the wellness

responsible and sustainable environ-

to present 11 products from the new

both at home and in Spa. Appropriately

mental approach: doors with automatic

SWEET COLLECTION (Cristiano Mino

designed to satisfy every exigency in

closing systems; intelligent heating sy-

design). These objects are characteri-

terms of space maintaining the technical

stem with automatic shutdown when the

zed by high performances and winning

and aesthetic qualities unchanged, these

doors remain opened for more than 30

design which will be presented with the

products do not come to compromises

seconds; the “Energy Efficient” software

complete range of available covers (from

and offer comfort, quality, maximum fun-

to control and maintain the temperature

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ctionality, customization, interaction with

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SWEETSTEAMSMART In SweetSteamSmart the steam bath and the shower are combined to create a regenerating place. Conceived as an authentic Spa with professional technologies, this product is available in 8 different layout configurations to be easily installed in every ambient. The different available covers guarantee the maximum customization.

SWEETSAUNASMART INFRARED SweetSaunaSmart Infrared offers a thermic treatment particularly efficacious, safe and localized. Baked clay lights filled with lava sand and the low temperature infrared technique permit the continuous monitoring of skin temperature thanks to special thermic sensors and they release the heat regulating the intensity depending on measured values. The absence of the stove permits to install this sauna even in notcontrolled ambient.

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YEAR 1994 REGENCY HOTEL Mario Pignatelli SUITE 46, JUNE 1994 It was an urban aristocratic mansion, a small fortress located nearby Milan’s convention centre area. Nowadays it is the full-of-personality Regency Hotel, which finds its success with its small dimensions and emphasized peculiarity. Its iconographic representations and medieval look contribute to creating an atmosphere rich of history and evoking imaginary stories.

This atmosphere is complemented by the interior design that repurposes lancet arches, columns, and stained glass, while retaining a modern touch.

SHERATON GENOVA HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER Alfredo Corradini and Sandro Serapioni SUITE 48, OCTOBER 1994 The Sheraton Genova Hotel & Conference Center opens proposing an international style, reflected by its structure, a steel and glass rectangular frame, and its function—that of a hotel and conference centre. This dual purpose allows the hotel to serve not only Genoa but also the wider surrounding area. The interior is in agreement with the common traits of Sheraton hotels but distinguishes itself with its advanced technological equipment and high-quality services aimed at business travellers.

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FOUR SEASON NEW YORK Chhada Siembieda & Partners SUITE 49, NOVEMBER 1994 Located in a spectacular 52-story skyscraper designed by I.M. Pei, The Four Season New York immediately conquests the status of the highest Manhattan hotel. It is a celebration of the supreme luxury hotel, or of glamorous hospitality, thanks to the use of precious materials, such as marble and walnut root, and to its discrete and refined modern design, with simple decor. The interior and exterior are strongly connected—the fabrics, finishing, and colours of the rooms match the dominant hues of skyscraper’s building stone, revealing thus the intention to create a uniform and coherent look.

HOTEL TERMINUS Maurizio Massimo Papiri SUITE 49, NOVEMBER 1994 After several years of inactivity, the Hotel Terminus in Como re-emerges displaying the signs of a renewed personality. The interior of the building hides unexpected wide spaces, somehow out of scale compared to the contained dimensions of the complex: high ceilings and an imposing staircase become astounding and characteristic. Vertical lines, transparencies, and views blend to create the illusion of enlarged spaces. The internal design fuses with historical traits through decorative minutiae, creating an equilibrated and suggestive identity.

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YEAR 1995 LE MERIDIEN LINGOTTO Renzo Piano and Franco Mirenzi SUITE 56, DECEMBER 1995 The first Méridien in Italy debuts in the prestigious Lingotto building in Rome. The hotel promotes convention tourism, according to the concept elaborated by Renzo Piano. From the former industrial building were inherited the extraordinary proportions, the transparencies, and the brightness— elements that distinguish the new purpose of the place, dominated by a contemporary style. The rooms are designed as city lofts where furnishings act as a unique “itinerary” honouring the greatest designers of the 1900s.

RELAIS IL CANALICCHIO Anselmi Attiani Architetti Associati SUITE 53, AUGUST 1995 Immersed in the Campania countryside, Relais Il Canalicchio could be defined as the precursor of “scattered hotels”. In fact, this hospitality facility comprises most of the country houses belonging to the small medieval town scattered over the hill and built around a fortified castle. The project, belonging to Anselmi Attiani Architetti Associati, is a true restoration effort that turns pre-existent structures into hospitality facilities where traditional local materials, such as stone, wood, wrought iron, brick, and terracotta, prevail. The outcome is a model of hospitality destined to make the most of the territory and its lodging opportunities.

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GRAND HOTEL FLORA Lorenzo Bellini SUITE 53, AUGUST 1995 The restructuring of the Grand Hotel Flora, the gateway of the famous via Veneto, is an important milestone of the project “Roma Capitale”, one of the initiatives belonging to the wider plan of city redevelopment. The new strategy of the structure, based on the project of Lorenzo Bellini, involves offering versatile services and different levels of hospitality, all under a unified and coordinated image. The ambiance has a domestic atmosphere and features revised classical and elegant decors, brightened by contemporary fabrics and upholstery.

HOTEL EDEN Richard Daniels Design and Intertecno SUITE 51, FEBRUARY 1995 Two years of work are needed to restore the Hotel Eden of Rome to its former “dolce vita” atmosphere, when it regularly hosted statesmen and celebrities. The major renovation preserves the historical interior and upgrades the technical systems, equipment, and installations of the structure. All spaces are characterised by refined simplicity, and the elegance, neither magnificent nor sumptuous, is never ostentatious, creating a residential atmosphere, which has always been Eden’s prerogative.

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FEATHERS AND CREATIVITY, SINCE 1964

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ifty years have passed by the establishment of the Company which today is a leader reality in feather

manufacturing for the contract sector: Cinelli Piume e Piumini. On the occasion of this important anniversary, the Company presents several novelties and among these ones there is the new Pordoi down padding. Cinelli Piume e Piumini is strongly deep-rooted in Valdinievole territory, in the Province of Pistoia, an hilly region with a strong entrepreneurial impulse. The firm has its offices in Buggiano village, where inside a new and technological facility which has been recently renewed, the whole

Cinelli Piume e Piumini makes all its pro-

personalization concerning size, feather

productive cycle is carried out. One of the

ducts in Italy, according to severe para-

typology and padding according to the

secrets which has allowed the Company

meters which testify the very high quality

different requirements. A service for a more

to emerge and to become consolidated on

starting from the raw material up to the final

and more exigent clientele which search for

the Italian market is exactly the investment

product. Only after passing the numerous

in research, structural changes and new

control tests the qualification of “product

machineries. For examples, is very new the

guaranteed by Cinelly� is assigned. Thus,

insertion of the feather third wash.

the company guarantees the product

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quality, elegance, order and functionality.

they retain the air which act as insulator

sensations during the rest. It is 100% na-

So, concerning the contract production

maintaining an ideal microclimate. Both the

tural and completely biodegradable, secure

Cinelli Piume e Piumini guarantees a made

down padding and the eiderdown present

and due to the fact that it is an eiderdown it

in Italy product of an high quality, natural

several sanitary and practical advantages if

chars without flames and few smoke and it

and healthy. Thanks to its hygroscopic

compared with traditional covers.

is lasting in time because it keeps its value

capacity, the feather maintains a perfect

First of all, they are anallergic because they

unchanged during the years.

equilibrium between body temperature and

are covered with a thick weft cotton which

To conclude, for the hotelier the choice of

external climate.

not allows the passage of bacteria and

an eiderdown instead of a cover presents

So, it is correct to assert that the down

mites and during the productive process

several “plus� which are added on a very

is a natural thermoregulator. The optimal

they are exposed to a manufacturing which

important aspect: the convenience, the

solution for the hotel even in summer

sets to zero and does not favour the prolife-

ratio between costs and benefits makes

period because with the air conditioned

ration of these bacteria. This is a functional

this product the optimal solution. Cinelli

ignition allows the body to conserve the

solution which is easy to wash with water

Piume e Piumini addresses its production

right temperature. This means that even in

or dry-cleaning in a laundry and it permits

to the hoteliers who want to guarantee to

summer the use of a down padding or of an

to tidy up the bed with extreme velocity. A

their costumers an high comfort with the

eiderdown lets the body perspire adsorbing

versatile product which can be personalized

maximum safety and hygiene and an high

humidity; on the contrary, in a cold ambient

concerning padding, thermic gradient and

qualitative standard service.

where the body temperature falls down

size; it is soft and light and it gives unique

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YEAR 1996 HOTEL I CASTELLI Ugo Dellapiana SUITE 60, AUGUST 1996 In Alba, the Hotel I Castelli is one of the first examples of weaving hospitality activities with productive, cultural, and social ones. This mix of functions is achieved through a coherent structure, set at the boundary of the old town centre, which is to become a city landmark. The modern architectural complex, distinguishable through its brick and glass façade, encloses a hospitality facility where cutting-edge technological equipment ensures guests’ security and comfort. Finally, automated solutions allow optimal management of the energy use.

HOTEL RECHIGI Massimo Ghisi and Arch. Sergio Cavalieri SUITE 60, AUGUST 1996 Located in the centre of Mantua, the Hotel Rechigi aims to cancel out the traditional difference between museum space and residential space, so that art becomes considered an essential component of daily life. To this end, art objects exhibited along all common areas of the hotel are immersed in a neutral background, made of smooth and essential surfaces. Thus, paintings, sculptures, and installation art pieces find their ideal setting in this minimalist and rarefied ambiance, generating the unique identity of Rechigi—different from that of other Italian hotels, still reticent towards this kind of initiatives.

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GRAND HOTEL TRENTO Luigi Vietti SUITE 58, APRIL 1996 Hosted within a rationalist building with a dynamic design, facing the city park, the Grand Hotel Trento proposes an interior design characterised by fantastic settings inspired by the Modernist Movement. Thus, some of the drawings of Fortunato Depero are featured in the collective and private areas of the hotel. The designs inspired by the early 1900s fuse with typical local elements, creating a unique ambiance, while the concealed technological equipment guarantees an elevated level of comfort.

CITY HOTEL TORINO Arch. P. Ruffa, Arch. F. Cuniberto SUITE 59, JUNE 1996 Not too far from the train station of Porta Susa, the City Hotel of Turin supports the idea of identity and dissimilarity in the hospitality industry, so much that it could be considered the prototype of the design hotel.

The internal design leads the guest through a sequence of perceptual experiments, all different one from another, to achieve the goal of playful residential spaces, rich of visual, tactile, and sensitive stimuli. These typical atmospheres alternate with rigid, almost minimalistic ones, and the contrast and superposition of styles and materials becomes an architectural trick meant to recall the contemporary spaces.

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YEAR 1997 HOTEL EUROPA & REGINA Hirsch Bedner Associates SUITE 66, AUGUST 1997 Following an ample renovation project, the Hotel Europa & Regina becomes part of the “Luxury Collection” of ITT Sheraton. Made of five nuclei of different historical value, the hospitality facility is designed to fully recall the Venetian style: internal areas are sumptuously redesigned and richly decorated with Venetian flooring and mirrors. The classical atmosphere nevertheless conceals a leading-edge security system, a specific requirement of the Sheraton chain.

HOTEL PALACE MADRID HDC Interior Architecture & Design SUITE 68, DECEMBER 1997 The Hotel Palace in Madrid gathers five hundred guestrooms, halls, and function rooms, shops and services all under the stunning glass dome located in the centre of the complex, which is visible from the street and acts as a reference point for the city. This dome becomes the symbol of the renovated interior design of the hotel, moulded onto the idea of a sophisticated, but not excessive, classical design, with light and elegant hues. This architectural detail also becomes the distinctive trait of this hotel—a hotel open towards the city and daily events.

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CARLTON HOTEL BAGLIONI Renato Livi SUITE 67, OCTOBER 1997 Located in the heart of the Milan fashion district, the Carlton Hotel Baglioni reopens with a new look, renewing its status of “Milanese social club”. The restyling creates a welcoming and elegant, yet rigorous, decor, free from any ostentation, rather an exquisite habitable space. This way, the renovated ambiance recreates that of the city, from which it borrows the quality and preciousness of materials, fittings, and furnishings, for a distinctive classical image recalling antique Patrician houses.

GRAND HOTEL ORPHENTUS Ricci & Spaini Architetti SUITE 64, APRIL 1997 Even just looking at the outside architecture of the Grand Hotel Orphentus of Caramanico Terme it is possible to imagine its extremely modern internal décor. The geometrical structure, with a façade that simulates the surrounding landscape, encloses an atmosphere flooded in natural light. White walls and wooden flooring function as the neutral background of design furnishings, partially custom-made and partially selected from among the trendiest options available on the market. Characterising the external and the internal décor, the simplicity becomes the leitmotif of this innovative structure.

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YEAR 1998 SHERATON DIANA MAJESTIC Michael Stelea SUITE 74, DECEMBER 1998 For Milan, it is almost a heritage place, a fine example of the early twentieth-century architecture and a location for social functions. This civic heritage of the Diana Hotel does not contrast with its hospitality purpose, though, and the late 1990s refurbishing only increases the value of this historical “monument”. The restructuring accurately preserves the image of the Milanese hotel par excellence, with its décor and atmosphere in the 1920s art deco style, maintaining the authentic spirit of the building.

SHERATON AMSTERDAM HOTEL Pierre Yves Rochon and Pantheon Partnership SUITE 72, AUGUST 1998 The Sheraton Amsterdam Schiphol Hotel has all the features of a modern European “airport hotel”, with customized innovative services to simplify the guests’ travel experience. The stunning hotel is housed by a structure with cutting-edge soundproofing. The traveller can book a room even for just a few hours, in order to rest and minimise jet-leg, enjoy well-equipped wellness centres, and take advantage of the ultra-prompt laundry services. Thus, the hotel becomes an unmissable stop for the business traveller.

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HOTEL DEI MELLINI Gregory Aeberhard SUITE 71, JUNE 1998 The strong appeal of Hotel dei Mellini in Rome derives from the major restructuring of two adjacent period buildings located in the Prati quarter. The modern dÊcor blends with traditional details, expressed through the extensive use of wrought iron furniture and art deco fittings. The hotel’s international yet cosy atmosphere demonstrates the successful concept of this hospitality structure.

COSMO HOTEL Paola Giambelli SUITE 71, JUNE 1998 Housed within a high-tech multifunctional leisure and conference centre, the Cosmo Hotel impresses its guests with a distinctive image and unique identity. Steering away from the standardized and stereotypical commercial hotel located along a busy highway, the project of Paola Giambelli focuses instead on creating rich atmospheres, with a strong residential appeal. Contemporary shapes blend with a wide range of cosmic symbols and images, inspiring thus the name of the hotel.

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YEAR 1999 VILLA LA CUPOLA – HOTEL EXCELSIOR Hirsch Bedner Associates SUITE 77, APRIL 1999

ONE ALDWYCH HOTEL Gordon Campbell Gray e Mary Fox Linton

Joining the national hospitality industry as “the largest suite in Italy”—sumptuous, luxurious, and unique—Villa La Cupola – Hotel Excelsior in Rome has indeed unusual dimensions, which seem amplified by the steep cupola, the distinguishing trait of this hotel against the city landscape. The interior features a rich blend of styles, characteristic of the splendour of the city throughout centuries, and meant to turn the hotel into the meeting point of the many elite travelling to Rome.

SUITE 76, APRIL 1999 The One Aldwych in London aims to become the ultimate luxury hotel, and it names itself “contemporary luxury hotel”. This motto encloses the key elements of the architectural project authored by Gordon Campbell Gray and Mary Fox Linton, a project that assigns equal weights to classical inspiration and contemporaneity. Through this choice, the hotel aims to gain personality and authentically distinctive traits, but not fashionable ones. By being “out of time”, the hotel gains the status of sophisticated destination, capable to distinguish itself among its international competitors.

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HILTON MILAN Intertecno SUITE 77, JUNE 1999 Hilton Milan revamps its image, to adhere to the guidelines of the international Hilton chain. An ambitious project aims at giving the hotel a new image, very different from its previous subdued one, through re-launching the hotel and updating its equipment. The project involves creating a dynamic interior design, with simple, modular spaces distributed around a spacious central area. Thus, contemporaneity with a touch of design is brought at the service of business travellers.

CORSOCOMO HOTEL Cibic & Partners SUITE 80, DECEMBER 1999 Located along one of the most famous streets in Milan, CorsoComo Hotel faithfully represents its atmosphere through a high level of customization.

This is Aldo Cibic’s first hotel project and one through which he chooses to expand the boutique hotel theme, enhancing the character, vividness, and sensory expressions of the spaces. The objective was to incorporate the Italian design into the hotel, creating an exciting experience capable of stimulating the imagination without neglecting efficiency and functionality.

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P U B B L I R E D A Z I O N A L E

THE MOBILSPAZIO RECEPTION IN GENOA

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oday, travelling with style is an affordable luxury for everybody: this is the Nologo Hotel philoso-

phy, the new hotel located in the centre of Genoa which combines innovative design and quality services. This hotel is a tribute to five different musical genres for five different room typologies. The building houses works created by the young artists coming from the “Liceo” specialized in art subjects of Genoa, a real art gallery where the novelties are combined with the vintage covers of the famous “Rolling Stones” magazine.

This collaboration focuses the attention

However, the real surprise is the first floor

on the design, functionality and creativity

terrace, among the palace of San Vin-

maintaining the qualitative standard which

cenzo road, a social area with swimming

characterizes the production. Thanks to

pool and several entertainment halls. The

the experience established in the Hotel and

well-established experience of the Mobil-

Residence furnishing field, the Mobilspazio

spazio group in accommodation products

proposed the best solutions in order to

furnishing expressed in the best way the

satisfy every furnishing exigencies. The

creativity of Project AB Studio achieving

numerous hotel room collections allowed

the aims of the designer Barbara Rossi.

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YEAR 2000 THE HOTEL Jean Nouvel SUITE 84, AUGUST 2000 In Lucerne, Jean Nouvel proposes his personal interpretation of the boutique hotel theme, going beyond tradition to offer guests an original hotel living experience. The distinctive traits of the project are the accurately painted spaces, with attention paid to all details. The Hotel is organised as 25 individually designed studios, whose ceilings depict film stills belonging to the collection of the French architect. Surprise, experience, art fusion—these are the traits of the hotel, which aims at offering highest-quality services.

HOTEL GREIF Boris Podrecca SUITE 83, JUNE 2000 A small hotel with 33 rooms, the Hotel Greif of Bolzano skilfully merges the local culture and character with Central-European elements and with contemporary art. The artworks, most of them by local young artists, dominate the dĂŠcor of the rooms, where a combination of traditional and modern materials creates a successful colour palette. The hi-tech equipment of the business areas, interspersed with dynamic elements, is guaranteed to meet the needs of business travellers.

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GRAND HYATT SHANGHAI Bilkey Llinas Consulting SUITE 81, FEBRUARY 2000 Hosted in the Jin Mao Tower designed by the American architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the new Grand Hyatt Shanghai becomes the tallest hotel in the world. The 420-metre tall hotel has 80 floors and is equipped with the latest systems of management, control, security, and communication. The structure soon becomes the newest and most luxurious hotel of the Chinese city, where all 555 rooms have stunning city views.

GALLERY ART HOTEL Michele Bonan SUITE 81, FEBRUARY 2000 As suggested by its name, the Gallery Art Hotel of Florence proposes a rich mixture of hospitality and art, which becomes the distinctive trait of the space. Michele Bonan challenges guests to live a unique, uninterrupted aesthetic experience, projecting them into a cultural universe characterised by different art experiences, exchanges, and fusions. But the Gallery is also an expression of a continuously evolving style, a place with a tranquil charm where the spaces recall a mix of East and West and the design of the 1940s and 1950s.

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YEAR 2001 ROSE GARDEN PALACE Lorenzo Bellini SUITE 92, NOVEMBER 2001 With its refined settings, the Rose Garden Palace in Rome is full of personality, and proudly displays its uniqueness among Rome’s hotels. The elegant and bright ambiance houses furnishings designed by Lorenzo Bellini as well as artworks selected to achieve a contemporary ambiance, somehow suspended in time. The result is a soft, comfortable atmosphere instilling well-being in guests arriving here from all parts of the world

HOTEL FERRARA Maurizio Sacco SUITE 87, FEBRUARY 2001 It is a small hotel that strongly expresses its commitment towards the city and its sense of belonging to a community. Located in the old town, Hotel Ferrara is a hospitable place that provides guests with numerous opportunities to catch various glimpses of the city from different angles, openings, and perspectives. Dominated by wood furnishings, the internal decor integrates elements reminiscent and representative of tradition with modern ones, to create an erudite hospitality, capable of evoking the location’s cultural heritage and offering guests a flavour of the city.

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GRAND HOTEL LEONE D’ORO Netti Architetti and Alfredo Vacca SUITE 90, AUGUST 2001 The major restructuring of the Grand Hotel Leone d’Oro of Bari is a sophisticated intervention to bring the hotel in line with the new industry standards. Thanks to the project of Netti Architetti and Alfredo Vacca, the hotel becomes one of the first in Italy to have the latest installations and equipment in terms of security and accessibility. But the project involves more than technological upgrade—new linear and simple furnishings elevate the décor to a new stylistic level, utterly modern and international, creating a model of hospitality for this Pugliese city.

HOTEL CORTE DEI BUTTERI Simone Micheli SUITE 89, JUNE 2001 By endowing the Hotel Corte dei Butteri on the Argentario gulf with a new and explosive look, Simone Micheli revamps the concept of the place.

Colours such as yellow, green, blue-violet, orange, and red are placed on a rebel chessboard recalling the atmosphere of Alice in the Wonderland. The designer complements the unconventional furnishings with the lighting; ceiling lights resembling chaotic sky snapshots project light beams on the columns and reflect on the iron, mirror, and plasterboard surfaces, creating an endless dynamism.

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YEAR 2002 THE HEMPEL Anouska Hempel SUITE 98, DECEMBER 2002 In the Notting Hill quarter of London, The Hempel’s Zen atmosphere is anticipated by its private garden, with white pebble paths, stone-delineated ponds, and scattered trees. The hotel distinguishes itself through the geometrical and precise lines of modern architecture, modern minimalism, and the serenity typical of Asian atmospheres. Similarly, the contrast of lights, the fabrics, and the material are inspired from the five traditional elements of Eastern philosophy—earth, wood, metal, fire, and water—, making The Hempel one of the most praised examples of design hotel in the world.

LAGUNA PALACE HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER Marco Piva SUITE 95, JUNE 2002 The Laguna Palace Hotel & Conference Center transforms a former cargo terminal in a visitors’ terminal. The structure aims at becoming a true representative of the hospitality industry by making use of the latest technologies and guaranteeing high quality standards. Marco Piva uses three elements—water, glass, and the gondola—in synergy with one another, to express himself through this project. He uses water to suggest new chromatic combinations, glass to shape the building, and the gondola as a reception desk in the lobby. Blending harmoniously with the décor, the materials of the structure provide comfort and a touch of magic.

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HOTEL MERCURE PRADO Jacques Lefévre and Jean-Pierre Belot SUITE 94, APRIL 2002 This is a business hotel with a technological spirit, where high-tech equipment combines with modern design to create a double personality, immediately distinguishable in the lobby. Colour becomes a poem, used to define the atmosphere, and comprises shades of cobalt blue, red, yellow, and lilac. The result is a unique hotel that wants to become a hub for both business travellers and interior design connoisseurs by offering exquisite spaces and “Made in Italy” furnishings.

HOTEL AL PORTO Piero Lissoni SUITE 93, FEBRUARY 2002 A hotel is “no man’s land” and, thus, needs to possess a friendly atmosphere. This was the idea that Piero Lissoni used as a starting point to transform the former anonymous 70s hotel in Lachen, near Zurich, into a luxury design hotel. Here, luxury is not tangible, but is expressed through a blend of time, space, and light that creates a subdued elegance, discreet by entirely harmonious. Facing the lake, the Hotel Al Porto is a synthesis of Eastern and Western style, blending the Zen minimalism with warm and precious materials such as marble and walnut wood.

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YEAR 2003 UNA HOTEL VITTORIA Fabio Novembre SUITE 103, OCTOBER 2003 Unconventional and explosive, in contrast with the prevailing “international style”, the UNA Hotel Vittoria debuted in the hospitality industry as an époque hotel, a surprising and divergent trend. Nevertheless, Fabio Novembre strongly connects the project with the place by choosing to include style elements inspired by Florentine tradition. The hotel becomes a “theatre of life”, a place where to lodge but also to socialise and work in an energetic atmosphere.

And the decor seems to project guests to the future, the shower fittings being displayed in a novel way, open towards the room.

THE GRAY Guido Ciompi SUITE 101, GIUGNO 2003 The Gray si distingue per il carattere fortemente internazionale e contemporaneo, per l’animo sognante e viaggiatore, perfetto per il cosmopolita che qui trova tracce ed elementi di diverse culture. L’anima multipla della struttura si divide tra storia e tradizione e ricerca di una contemporaneità emotiva.

Gli ambienti hanno una forte personalizzazione e l’atmosfera di insieme è accogliente ed eccitante, mentre la cura del dettaglio è spinta all’estremo.

Introducendo così un concetto veramente innovativo di ospitalità, legato il più possibile al mondo dell’immagine e della moda.

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HOTEL ALEPH Adam Tihany Design SUITE 104, DECEMBER 2003 The Hotel Aleph in Rome is the creation of the eclectic genius of Adam Tihany. Chic and stylish, the hotel plays around the contrast between paradise and inferno, the base concept for the inception and ending of everything. The lower ground floor houses the “paradise”, with a surprising spa, while the top floor houses the “inferno”, with a lively and seductive atmosphere. The hotel thus becomes more than just lodging; it becomes a place fostering the idea of good contrasting evil, a place dedicated to those who live between present and future and know the value of originality and style..

ES HOTEL ROMA King&Roselli SUITE 99, FEBRUARY 2003 The Es Hotel in Rome is synonymous with ultimate design, a pleasure oasis connected with history. Designed by King&Roselli, it is the first hotel in the world to include an archaeological area, which unravelled necklaces, silver coins, and a lachrymatory from Imperial Rome. But it is precisely these artefacts that introduce the future of the structure, balanced between innovative solutions and respect for the historical context. Here, the luxury is well defined, but never opulent, intelligent and erudite, meeting guests’ expectations and anticipating their needs. The Es Hotel is one that encourages and facilitates knowledge, protecting and displaying it.

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YEAR 2004 VIGILIUS MOUNTAIN RESORT Matteo Thun SUITE 106, APRIL 2004 Sitting on a mountaintop, resembling a gigantic tree trunk, Vigilius Mountain Resort symbolises the dialogue with nature. Besides glass, the only materials used are larch panels, a sustainable choice to complement the innovative energy-saving installations. The interior of the hotel features the same materials, but not with the purpose of creating a minimalist décor. The style is rather sensorial, tactile, and inviting if not promoting the search for one’s identity. In fact, the goal of Matteo Thun and of the owner was to allow the guest to emerge in the tranquillity of the mountain and leave behind the obsolete.

UNA HOTEL BOLOGNA Marco Piva SUITE 110, DECEMBER 2004 Strategically located nearby Bologna’s central railway station, the UNA Hotel is conceived by Marco Piva as an emotional travel story among design and technology, strong colours, bright effects, and transparencies. The hotel is characterised by a precise décor that prompts guests to seek out the dynamic landscape outside the large windows that occupy the entire façade.

Thus, the windows open towards the street and the railway as if to perceive the city movement like large eyes observing the city landscape, welcoming a dialogue with the city.

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PARK HYATT MILANO Ed Tuttle SUITE 105, FEBRUARY 2004 In the heart of Milan, the Park Hyatt debuts adorned with a well-studied image of sober elegance, already evident from the entrance. The hotel exhibits a classical style, free from shiny embellishments, reflected through the use of materials: travertine slabs create precious surfaces, which contrast with black resin, Venetian stucco, and Baverno red granite. These alternating elements lend a particular sense of harmony and continuity to all spaces of this typically Milanese hotel.

BULGARI HOTEL MILANO Antonio Citterio SUITE 107, JUNE 2004 Encased in the green oasis of the Botanical Garden, in the city centre, the Bulgari Hotel Milano adopts a sober elegance, without excessive décor, without eye-catching elements. Antonio Citterio chooses to express luxury through high-quality materials, creating two universes—a public, worldly, and grandiose universe for the bar, the restaurant, and the lounge, and a private and intimate universe for the guestrooms. Despite their contrasting functions, the collective and private spaces share the distinguishing features of the project and a highly modern décor where the emphasis is placed on the highest quality of the services.

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YEAR 2005 IL CONVENTO DEI FIORI DI SETA Fabrizio Frassinetti SUITE 113, APRIL 2005 The outcome of accurate restoration of a fifteenth-century church belonging to Bologna’s old town, Il Convento dei Fiori di Seta (literally “The Silk Flowers Convent”) is reborn as a design hotel, faithfully restored and furnished with a mix of antique and contemporary elements. The four rooms of the small hotel are attentively decorated, and can be each accessed with a key bearing a symbol of the silk flower. The entry hall is the entry to the former church, the dining area faces the former altar, the rooms are in the apses and bell tower, the sitting area is next to the crucifix fresco, and the lounge is in the vaulted-ceiling basement. Thus, the structure effuses a monastic, yet fresh and light ambiance.

HOTEL LA COLUCCIA Alvin Grassi SUITE 115, JULY 2005 Endowed with an urban appeal and glamour borrowed from the fashion world, the Hotel La Coluccia in Punta Verde is an innovative structure, created with the objective to represent the newest hotel architecture and design. Light colours—absolute white, dove white, and ivory—, as well as the use of local Rosei marble and of red clay recall the Sardinian tradition without replicating it. Inside the guestrooms, the bathrooms occupy the central position, while original mirrors with neo-baroque frames give an eclectic and suggestive touch, creating a city-like décor that contrasts with the coastal landscape in the north of the island.

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HOTEL AURORA Simone Micheli SUITE 116, SEPTEMBER 2005 Simone Micheli’s project for Hotel Aurora is a hymn to creativity, senses, and emotions, which not only changes dramatically the image of the hotel, but also represents the first avant-garde project for the city of Merano, the first expression of the world of super design. He eliminates the superfluous and rejects the standard décor in order to leave space for functional rooms that interact with the guest. Lively colours, quality materials, the innovative use of lighting and reflective surfaces represent a multisensory habitat able to capture users’ attention and interacting with them.

BLACK HOTEL Raniero Botti and Gianfranco Mangiarotti SUITE 118, DECEMBER 2005 Nonconformist for the unusual choice of “all black” decor, the project of the Black Hotel is an original interpretation of the monochromatic theme.

It turns the single colour tone into the perfect background for emphasising the artworks, the furnishings in colours such as apple green, bright red, and purple, and the zebrawood furniture of the lobby. The only diversion from the black theme is the completely white painting of the rooms’ walls. The contrast between white and black is eloquent and suggests the difference in function of the two environments dedicated to guests.

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YEAR 2006 NH SANTO STEFANO Isolarchitetti and Serapioni Progetti SUITE 120, MARCH 2006 In the heart of Roman Turin, the NH Santo Stefano is a project born out of respect for the architecture of the past. The austere shapes of the dĂŠcor are inspired by antique materials and fittings, and the essential yet hi-tech interior design bears classical accents. But the key feature of the hotel is its spectacular hall resembling a bell tower, with its long, spiral wooden staircase set against the background painted in a firebrick colour. This unforgettable entrance to the hotel is studded with LED spotlights, which emphasize the uniqueness of the structure.

GOLDEN PALACE HOTEL Studio Simonetti SUITE 121, MARCH 2006 A hymn to luxury, the Golden Palace Hotel in Turin displays an elegant and magnificent interior design inspired by the gold and other metals of the Olympic medals. With colours and symbols inspired by the Olympic Games, which in 2006 were hosted in Turin, the hotel preserves a few art deco details that perfectly complement the new furnishings, the interactive plasma monitors, and the custom-made artworks. The atmosphere is soft and enveloping thanks to mother-of-pearl inserts, velvets, coffee-coloured redwood boiseries, aubergine hues, and crocodile-effect leather.

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BYBLOS ART HOTEL VILLA AMISTA’ Atelier Mendini SUITE 123, AUGUST 2006 Located in the heart of Valpolicella, the Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà is an antique Venetian villa dedicated to contemporary art and design, hosting a collection of artworks by world-renowned artists. The frescos, stuccos, fixtures, Venetian flooring, and decorated wooden ceilings of the antique villa are complemented by contemporary fabrics and decorations, for a contrasting and suggestive décor. Two styles, the eighteenth-century baroque and the design, characterise common areas and the 60 guestrooms, some with a design inspired by the eighteenth-century Wunderkammern.

BOSCOLO NEW YORK PALACE Massimo Iosa Ghini, Maurizio Papiri, Simone Micheli SUITE 123, AUGUST 2006 On the outside, it is a monumental nineteenth-century building with Renaissance-inspired features. On the inside, however, the classical theme blends with contemporary details and eclectic elements. The Boscolo New York Palace of Budapest is born as a “Made in Italy” hotel: the property is Italian, the designers and architects are Italian, and so are the furnishings and equipment used. The result is a hotel with a strong, precise, and seductive design of its space—which, through its elegance, evokes the splendour and atmosphere of times gone by.

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YEAR 2006 MITSUI GARDEN HOTEL Piero Lissoni SUITE 123, AUGUST 2006 Hosted by a steel and glass tower located in the busy metropolitan area of Tokyo, the Mitsui Garden Hotel is an oasis of peace and tranquillity. Minimalist, luxurious, and essential, the hotel is a discreet refuge with an Italian design.

The unmistakable style of the architect and designer Piero Lissoni blends with the harmony of the common and private spaces of the hotel, entirely decorated with Italian furnishings. The target is a refined business clientele, attentive to details and to the tactile properties of materials, seeking refuge in timeless design areas.

SIXTY HOTEL Studio 63 Architecture + Design SUITE 124, OCTOBER 2006 With an interior design that eliminates boundaries and inhibitions, with funky colours, ultra-modern design, and contemporary art, the Sixty Hotel in Riccione exposes itself to the public as an eccentric blend of art and design.

The design is a fusion of styles: vintage, fashion, film- and music-inspired elements, graffiti, optical art, street-style and design are the ingredients of a concept similar to a music video. The emphasis is not as much on the architecture as it is on the cohabitation of different elements, of contemporary style and historical touches, creating a unique superposition in the most sensual hotel of Riccione.

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NHOW HOTEL MILANO Matteo Thun SUITE 125, DECEMBER 2006 The Nhow Hotel in Milan is a dream come true and elevates the concept of hospitality to a new level. Characterised by unprejudiced originality and refined creativity, the hotel boosts the stimuli and sensations connected to art, design, fashion, and taste. It suggests a new way of living the contemporary, overcoming the international luxury standards and offering an alternative to design hotel. The concept of fluid design is omnipresent in this hotel, once the General Electrics factory in via Tortona of Milan, allowing everyone a moment of fame.

HOTEL MARQUÉS DE RISCAL Frank O. Gehry SUITE 125, DECEMBER 2006 Among the vineyards of the Rioja Valley in Spain, Frank Gehry creates the futuristic Hotel Marqués de Riscal. It recalls the Guggenheim of Bilbao, with the contrast between sandstone, glass, and especially titanium, the material that covers the fluid, wavy façade of the hotel. This architectonic project fuses and harmonises winemaking tradition with avant-garde architecture: the wavy elements of the façade and the asymmetric walls sit next to the historical wine cellar dating from 1858. And the windows of the rooms offer sights of the vineyards and the nearby medieval town.

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It is not necessary to have an excuse to go to Madrid: the Silken Puerta America Hotel is the occasion. It summarizes the previous episodes, the best of the contemporary Archistars best.

It is a cake with levels of delicacies, where each architect put his favourite cream, each level is a different work and the final result is a creature which contains a whole of sublime tastes, a 360° experience for our senses.

It doesn’t matter the weather or which exhibition occurs in Madrid, here there is everything you want: the art is here, the architecture is here, the supreme food is here; here you can practice sports, enjoy yourself, embellish yourself, take picture of everything, astonish at everything, perform a guided visit to each floor and repeat to yourself “before or after, I’ll try them all”. Here you go upstairs and downstairs just to listen to the external elevators speak and to people opinions, to see their enchanted and incredulous smiles: here you can feel yourself as a protagonist of the history of architecture, costumer and creator at the same time. Here you live a work of art. You live it and you eat it and regenerate with it: after have danced until the daybreak, you’ll dip your hands in the red laky water of the

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swimming pool located on the last floor and you’ll regenerate yourself with a Turkish bath where everyone could watch you and in this way you’ll become a living work of art. Otherwise, you can go to have a bath in the Zaha Hadid suite which is transformed in a primordial cavern, soft and dazzling. Thirteen floors of ideas, thirteen breathtaking halls where a fauna of experts in aesthetics, design, fashion and culture goes around.

Architects respect a rigorous silence, devoted to the procession or vivid curiosity cults. The poetry titled “Liberty” composed by the surrealist Paul Éluard is tattooed on the polyglot façade and it is also repeated in the amazing car park, which is worthy of a street art interpreter.

In the night everything inflames of light. You are free and you feel it: you spread the joy of living. You stretch yourself in the round bed and you don’t care about anything. In this buen retiro, the refined and jocose luxury doesn’t allow you to exit the hotel and it holds you like a magnet: outside the sirens are uselessly singing from the Reina Sophia Museum, from the Caixa Forum of Herzog & de Meuron and from every corner of the city. Like Odysseus you remain anchored to your Silken… asking the Marmo bar to deliver in your room some tapas which seem auteur sculptures. “Do not disturb” brightly stands out on the door. Por favor.

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PORTRAIT SUITES Michele Bonan SUITE 127, FEBRUARY 2007 At number 23 of via Bocca di Leone in Rome, an unpretentious gate sits next to a nameplate bearing the inscription “Portrait Suites”. Inside, eight studios, five suites, and a penthouse pay homage to the golden times of the fashion world of the capital and to the great stylist Salvatore Ferragamo, founder of the famous fashion house that expanded its activity to enter the hospitality industry with the Lungarno Collections. This is how it is established, next to the Piazza di Spagna, the idea of “pleasing” hospitality with a new residential concept, especially created by Michele Bonan, which allows each guest to feel at home.

UNA HOTEL NAPOLI Luca Scacchetti SUITE 132, OCTOBER 2007 In the heart of Naples, Luca Scacchetti signs the architectural restoration and interior design project of the UNA Hotel Napoli. The work is a successful blend of local traditional elements and contemporary décor. The hotel suggests an elegant hospitality, but not a magnificent one, where the bright central lobby becomes the confluence of all hotel functions. The style is Mediterranean, from which it borrows the shades of white, the use of tuff stone, the choice of warm and enveloping lighting, creating decorative elements particularly captivating and strongly connected to the Neapolitan culture.

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THE FIVE HOTEL Vincent Bastie SUITE 132, OCTOBER 2007 Sensuality and colour characterise this small boutique hotel in Paris, composed of only 24 rooms. The Five Hotel is built around an original and captivating concept that arouses all senses, through the use of colours— matching and contrasting—, materials—shiny and opaque, uneven and smooth—, scents, and music. All details are carefully studied and each room is different from the others, offering different atmospheres and design elements, unmistakable colours and shapes. The restyling of the hotel includes Italian design and tends to create an iconic and unique look.

DUOMO HOTEL Ron Arad SUITE 126, FEBRUARY 2007 It was a small hotel of the Romagna Riviera where the time seemed to have stopped in the 60s. A smart investor turned it into the duoMo Hotel, designed by the Israeli Ron Arad. Completely redesigned and reorganised, the common spaces and the guestrooms have all been brought in line with the project’s design concept, according to which a hotel should not mimic a home, but should be a space where the guest lives an exciting experience, entirely different from the domestic one.

Furnishings and decorations, all designed by Ron Arad, are mixed with artworks, sculptures, and unique pieces such as the bar, the reception desk, and the private bathrooms, creating an astounding atmosphere.

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YEAR 2008 HOTEL LES FLEURS Francesco Lucchese SUITE 135, APRIL 2008 The first boutique hotel in Sofia, Les Fleures adopts a fresh and colourful concept, developed around the floral theme that acts as the project’s common thread. The cold lustrous appearance of the structure was softened by Francesco Lucchese with an interior design that experiments with the expressive power of symbols and colours. Stylised or natural looking, the flowers are depicted on mosaics, parquet, tapestries, and fabrics, and permeate the common areas and the rooms, which are flowing spaces where the protagonist is the bed, set against a soft and welcoming background. The hotel thus emphasizes a fresh, flowery, and modern “Made in Italy” ambiance, with a spring flavour.

SEEKO’S HOTEL Atelier d’Architecture King Kong SUITE 134, FEBRUARY 2008 The first hotel in the world covered in Corian DuPont, Seeko’s is an unusual structure, whose name in Inuit—a language spoken in the Arctic, Greenland, and Alaska—means iceberg or glacial. The name of the hotel suggests the originality of this candid and monolithic building facing the Garonne River in Bordeaux. The interior atmosphere recalls the refined elegance of certain luxury hotels from the art deco period, perfectly blending retro traits with the widely used modern materials and contemporary furnishings. The black slate pavement contrasts all other décor elements, which are entirely white.

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DEVERO HOTEL SUITE 137, AUGUST 2008 Halfway between Milan and Bergamo, along the motorway, stands the Davero Hotel, the new four-star dedicated to business travellers. The hotel bases its entire philosophy on the expectations of business travellers looking for a welcoming ambiance, a comfortable room and bed, the opportunity to relax in the sauna or check e-mails from the room, and not less important, enjoy a delicious meal. Innovative and standing up to the highest European standards, the hotel pampers its business clientele that also wants to relax in a pleasant and refined ambiance.

CITIZENM HOTEL AMSTERDAM Concrete Architectural Associates SUITE 139, DECEMBER 2008 The first hotel of the Dutch chain CitizenM, the CitizenM Hotel Amsterdam is an innovative and ironical hospitality facility whose spaces combine mixed uses and whose lobby is designed as a home’s living room. The project by Concrete Architectural Associates brings together luxury, high technology, and low-cost to attract a new clientele composed of avantgarde travellers, business people, explorers, culture and shopping lovers.

Guests can customize their rooms via web before arriving to the hotel: atmospheres, temperature, and music can be selected online in a way that is completely innovative.

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YEAR 2008 ASTORIA HOTEL Herzog & de Meuron SUITE 137, AUGUST 2008 It was defined a “coffer with a minimalist heart”, the Astoria Hotel in Lucerne, extended and redesigned by the famous Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Lustrous surfaces in glass and steel, which reflect the colours and silhouettes of the surrounding urban landscape, enclose a candid and essential interior that contributes to expressing the hotel’s belonging to modernity. And so does the lobby, an amplified space by the entirely white pavement, walls, ceilings, and even structural elements. The only coloured touches of the interior are given by the cherry wood parquet and the red upholstered sofas.

ALEXANDER MUSEUM PALACE Conte Nani Marcucci Pinoli SUITE 138, DECEMBER 2008 A starless hotel, but with an emphasized cultural vocation, the Alexander Museum Palace Hotel of Pesaro celebrates art in all of its expressions, welcoming the creativity of Italian and international emerging artists. The design of its 63 rooms was entrusted to a group of selected artists, who turned the ambient into a “permanent exhibition”, where different details are created by different artists. The hotel is thus composed of nine floors of contemporary art, making the Alexander Museum Palace an experimental laboratory of new expressions of painting, sculpture, and video art.

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THE DOLDER GRAND United Designer SUITE 138, DECEMBER 2008 This Zurich luxury hotel is hosted by a building bearing the signature of the world-renowned architecture firm Foster + Partners. The interior, enclosed by the façade’s grilles characterized by plant-inspired textures, is a sophisticated mix of antique and modern that brings to life new living spaces. The elegant furnishings blend with the care for the environment, and the use of geothermal solutions results in a significant decrease of energy use. The result is an environmentally friendly and chic hospitality temple where all elements are harmoniously integrated.

NET HOTEL PADOVA Marco Piva and Franzina + Partners Architettura SUITE 138, OCTOBER 2008 With its 84 metres of steel, iron, and glass, the North East Tower, designed by the LVL Architettura in Padua, is an expression of avant-garde architecture protected by bright red brise-soleil. The building hosts shops, offices, and the Net Hotel, which occupies the first nine floors and exhibits an elegant and minimalist design. The dialogue between the internal and external spaces becomes the common thread of the concept created by Marco Piva, who tried to maximise brightness and transparency through the design of an optimal atmosphere in terms of function, yet essential in terms of physical presence and impact.

In doing so, he contributed to defining new future design standards

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YEAR 2009 EME FUSION HOTEL Studio Terruella & Lopez Interioristas SUITE 140, FEBRUARY 2009 In the heart of Seville, opposite the Cathedral and the Giralda Tower, the Eme Fusion Hotel effuses innovation and urban elegance in a space rich of history and culture. As the term “fusion” indicates, the interior décor of the hotel is a mix of modern design with elements sourced from Andalusian popular tradition through the choice of materials, finishings, and furnishings. But fusion also represents the new concept of the hotel, capable of mixing, and offering guests, different experiences, even in terms of entertainment and relax. The hotel thus becomes an expression of “unconventional luxury” that blends culture, tradition, and innovation.

MONDIAL RESORT & SPA Andrea Fogli SUITE 140, FEBRUARY 2009 Total white, pastel furnishings, zebra-print fabrics, and tropical-style details.

The Mondial Resort & Spa in Marina di Pietrasanta evokes the famous Art Deco District in Miami and lends a bit of Florida style to Versilia. All of this to pleasantly surprise the guest, to contrast the general interpretation of “bon gout”, and to create a different experience, previously inexistent in the area. This way, the Mondial is a design hotel where the design is not expressed through the furnishings, chandeliers, and iconic chairs, but through the uniqueness and originality of the setting, where every detail has been taken care of.

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NH FIERA MILANO Dominique Perrault, DE8 Architetti SUITE 142, JUNE 2009 Drawing inspiration from the Bologna Towers and the San Giminiano medieval town in Tuscany, the world-famous French architect Dominique Perrault designed the two leaning black monolith towers of the new NH Hotel, located in the convention area of Milan. The glossy and homogenous surface of the façade is only interrupted by the thousand windows arranged in an irregular manner.

The two buildings host two hotels, both managed by the Spanish hotel chain: a three-star in the highest tower and a four-star in the other, totalling 398 rooms.

The interior design is targeted to business travellers, who are offered flexible and dynamic spaces

25 HOURS HOTEL FRANKFURT BY LEVI’S Karl Dudler with Delphine Buhro and Michael Dreher SUITE 141, APRIL 2009 In the heart of Frankfurt, the new and innovative chain 25Hours Hotel Company opens its first hotel that follows a new trend: attention to detail, originality, and design at competitive prices. The project aims at creating a design with a strong hand-made character, in a patchwork style, utilising and mixing unique elements of the fashion, design, and music of the 30s through the 90s. The hotel thus achieves a vintage yet ultra-modern look, which repurposes objects and their combinations—all for a custom-made hospitality.

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YEAR 2009 HOTEL PISANA PALACE CaberlonCaroppi Hotel & Design SUITE 144, OCTOBER 2009 The Hotel Pisana Palace in Rome is a wonderful example of partial restructuration of a hotel, a sort of episodic or “work in progress” design project expanded through time. The restyling project undertook by CaberlonCaroppi Hotel & Design focused on the choice of a white background and of a single dominating colour, on fluid shapes, and on lighting, emphasised by the large round mirrors of various sizes. From the lobby, the guest is ushered in an essential and elegant lounge, with numerous relax isles, while the setting is made exciting by spotlights and genuine design icons.

STARHOTEL ROSA GRAND Arassociati SUITE 142, JUNE 2009 In the heart of Milan, a few steps away from the Piazza Duomo and the Piermarini Fountain, the Starhotel Rosa Grand has been enlarged and restyled in a modern style but with a typically Milanese sobriety characteristic of the city. The goal was to create a true city element, not a historical one, defined through materials and décor typical of the urban landscape. Here, internal and external décor elements evoke on the one hand, the public architecture, and on the other hand, the comfort of more private hospitality.

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MONDRIAN SOUTH BEACH HOTEL Marcel Wanders SUITE 145, DECEMBER 2009 The interior design of the Mondrian South Beach Hotel of Miami bears the trademark of the visionary touch of Marcel Wanders. The designer employs his most famous elements: neo-baroque settings created through the use of oversized furnishings, wallpaper, damask fabrics, gigantic wall art, and abundant symbols of luxury, such as dream-like chandeliers and textures with intricate motifs. The ethereal interior is forecast by a garden resembling a labyrinth of lush flowerbeds aimed to protect and adorn the building, recalling Grimm’s fairy-tales and the fantastic setting of The Sleeping Beauty.

ANDEL’S HOTEL Jestico + Whiles SUITE 144, OCTOBER 2009 Design and technological innovation merge inside of a former factory in the centre of Lódz, in Poland, to create a four-star hotel that lays on the perimeter of the former Manufaktura, an old nineteenth-century textile factory. The interior, a blend of past and present, preserves and displays some of the industrial elements from the past, such as pillars, wrought-iron parapets, and beams. These elements become the original background for the new functions and furnishings, characterised by bright colours such as green, yellow, red, and orange, which stand out from the rough walls of the antique building.

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YEAR 2010 THE SCARLET HOTEL Harrison Sutton Partnership and Rebecca Whittington SUITE 148, JUNE 2010 On the Cornwall cliffs, The Scarlet Hotel is a luxury hospitality facility that respects the environment. Here the sustainability is ever-present, from the architectural elements to the everyday management of the hotel. The result is astounding: a hotel where spaces, lines, and stupendous views have the power to amaze and brighten. To achieve this effect, the architecture firm Harrison Sutton Partnership working with Bauwerk took advantage of the local topography: the hotel integrates in the landscape with its round shapes and organically shaped faรงade.

KAMEHA GRAND Marcel Wanders SUITE 151, DECEMBER 2010 With its sparkling glass facade, the Kameha Grand in Bonn resembles an illuminated sphere suspended on the banks of the Rhine River. This kind of magic could only have been created by a visionary like Marcel Wanders, using his unique combinations of rationality and fantasy, essentiality and baroque. Exciting, stimulating, and inspiring, the hotel is a place full of surprises, beauty, and energy. To achieve this, Marcel Wanders used coups de theatre and his famous stratagems, comprising oversized furnishings, throne-like chairs, oversized chandeliers, neo-baroque design, floral fabrics, damask, and irreverent pieces that ignore functionality to adopt a playful purpose.

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HOTEL MILANO SCALA Luigi Marchetti with Cibic&Partners and Francois Confino SUITE 150, OCTOBER 2010 The first entirely eco-friendly building of the centre of Milan, the Hotel Milano Scala features highly innovative technologies, obtaining a Class A energy rating. The energy supply system reduces emissions of polluting gases and allows for 45 per cent energy savings per year, while installations optimise the energy use and increase efficiency, all while respecting the comfort of guests. The interior dĂŠcor develops around the concept of theatre and music, drawing inspiration from the Milanese history and the performances taking place in the nearby Scala Theatre.

C-HOTEL Andrea Colzani, Emilio Trabella SUITE 147, APRIL 2010 The C-Hotel is an expression of contemporary hospitality that valorises the natural environment, starting with the garden and ending with the views of the landscape of the Brianza hills. Everything else is urban, simplified, functional: stone, wood, white colours, and natural light are utilised in a knowledgeable, rational way to define the ambiances through perspective and spatiality. Paying attention to the international context and sustainability, the hotel bases its unique hospitality on the themes of wellness, art, and

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YEAR 2011 HI MATIC HOTEL Matali Crasset SUITE 154, JUNE 2011 In Paris, this hotel becomes a new eco-urban and automatized hospitality concept through the use of new technologies. In fact, the HI MATIC revolutionises the traditional concept of hospitality with an agile and innovative formula: it is entirely an internet hotel that accepts booking only online, through its official website. The check-in is done via touchscreen devices and the food service is via vending machines. Targeted at a young and dynamic clientele, the hotel is designed by the visionary Matali Crasset who here experiments a futuristic and alternative version of the hotel, halfway between the Japanese ryokan and the European hostels.

JHD HOTEL Ermanno Preti SUITE 156, OCTOBER 2011 In Castiglione delle Stiviere, the JHD Hotel, acronym for Jean Henry Dunant, is an imaginary voyage in 78 amazing rooms, entirely dedicated to the Genevese peace activist. The hotel is an artwork that needs to be lived and interacted with: the guests are invited to use the spaces, touch, sit, open, experiment, and write on walls. Thus, Ermanno Preti creates a “zerostar hotel� where guests are free to pay attention to and experiment the quality of spaces without preconceived ideas, without expectations. JHD is a hotel strictly because of its function, as its innovative concept makes it unconventional.

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LE ROYAL MONCEAU Philippe Starck SUITE 152, FEBRUARY 2011 Le Royal Monceau is a voyage through a dream that Philippe Starck defined “a place where the French spirit lives and a place nourished by culture, dedicated to the true elegance, that of the heart”. In the heart of Paris, the hotel nurtures on the history and the energy of the place, creating a hotel of emotions where encounters, sensations, and feelings are interweaved. The intention was to remodel the classical boundaries of the luxury hotel and transport them into a new dimension, marked by the ambition to break standards, welcome the unusual, the fantasy, and the excess, contrasting rigour and perfection with bold creativity.

NHOW HOTEL BERLIN Karim Rashid SUITE 153, APRIL 2011 Entrusted to the creativity of Karim Rashid, the interior of the new Nhow Hotel Berlin mixes soft shapes, bright colours, and musical references.

The poetic, coloured, and almost surreal universe of the famous designer can be perceived from the lobby, which becomes the prelude of the 360-degree sensorial experience of the spaces of the hotel, defined as “The only hotel where music lives”. An essence of design and technology, Nhow Berlin is the only hotel in Europe with two professional music recording and mixing studios: here the notes of iPod and guitar in each room and of the music sound floor oor suggest that organic design perfectly defined by Rashid.

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YEAR 2012 TRAMPOLINES SUITE HOTEL Conceptual Devices – Antonio Scarponi SUITE 161, OCTOBER 2012 The Trampolines Suite Hotel in Riccione has an architectural design strongly characterised by the nautical theme, with wooden decks that run from bow to stern, wide open common spaces, and fantastic terraces with hydromassage baths and sundecks.

The façade covered in Corian—used for the first time in Italy for a façade—recalls a cruise ship and encloses a bright, clean, and essential décor, where a sense of eco-friendliness prevails. The project, inspired from the “Km 0” philosophy—uses materials, furnishings, and equipment not just made in Italy, but produced locally, in Romagna, according the LEED green building certification standard.

DESIGN HOTEL MIURA Studio Labor 13 SUITE 159, APRIL 2012 Surrounded by a “family” of cuboids, huge anthropomorphic and reflective sculptures made by the Czech artist David Cerny, the Design Hotel Miura, entirely made of glass, Corten steel, and Cembonit, emerges as a spaceship in a fairy-tale valley. In fact, the building is on purpose out of scale and acts as the dominant element of the landscape, while its minimalist interior uses the same materials as for the exterior for a coherent effect. The entire hotel is literally invaded by art, which filters through both common areas and guestrooms, characterised by a rarefied and futuristic atmosphere.

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HOTEL BOSCOLO BARI Italo Rota SUITE 162, DECEMBER 2012 An important restructuration transformed the historical Albergo Delle Nazioni along the Bari coast in a modern urban hotel, the only five-star of the city. The building that locals call “the transatlantic” became the new Boscolo delle Nazioni Bari, an expression of the visionary project of the Boscolo hotel chain and of the creativity of the architect Italo Rota. He creates a visual story of great impact, where Mediterranean colours transmit the message that the sea is the eternal link between past and future. This is how the architect recovers the original identity of the place and the close connection of the hotel with the landscape and the city.

ALOFT LONDON EXCEL Jestico + Whiles and Rockwell Group SUITE 160, JULY 2012 The Aloft London Excel combines striking architecture with innovative engineering through the use of high-performance materials and equipment. Certified “BREEAM Excellence”, the building breaks the design hotel standards through the integration of show and technology, blending exterior and interior design in a holistic system. The common areas and the guestrooms thus borrow the ornamental details of the façade—the iridescent, multi-coloured surfaces with a surprising visual impact.

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YEAR 2013 THE YARD SUITE 167, DECEMBER 2013 The Yard, a refined Milanese concept-house with an international flavour, proposes in its 800 square metres a suggestive and warm atmosphere, a world of surprises and emotions. For this place, the words that usually describe a hotel seem inadequate, starting with the reception that welcomes guests with a long table that functions as a computer desk. The design concept expresses a love for collecting that is not an end in itself and of a permanent connection with the past that all of us host inside. The hotel thus becomes a scene for every individual, and a universe of collective memories.

ROMAN PENTHOUSE AL REGINA HOTEL BAGLIONI Rebosio + Spagnulo SUITE 165, JULY 2013 The Roman Penthouse at the Regina Hotel Baglioni has a unique design, which rises above the traditional contrast between old and new to propose itself as an experimental model of an unusual luxury concept. In the largest hotel suite in Rome are references to every époque, to every century that marked Rome’s three millennia of history: the 560 square metres of the suite designed by the Rebosio + Spagnulo firm are designed as an epic story of “The Eternal City”. The spaces are calibrated, neither endless nor oversized, and seem dominated by eurhythmics and symmetry, concept much appreciated by the Vitruvian architecture.

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RADISSON BLU NANTES Jean-Philippe Nuel SUITE 166, OCTOBER 2013 A unique hospitality facility, open in March 2013 within a former courthouse—this is the Radisson Blu Nantes, which preserves the status of monument, yet opens its gates to become a meeting point not only for visitors, but also for the locals.

The hotel is, in fact, conceived to attract city dwellers by offering them services and a place where to meet, talk, do business, or unwind, while the internal décor eliminated anything that could be considered too solemn.

DAS STUE HOTEL Patricia Urquiola and GCA Arquitectos Asociados SUITE 163, FEBRUARY 2013 Opened to the public in December on the premises of the former Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin, the Das Stue Hotel preserves the austere 1930s architecture of the building designed by J.E. Schmidt and seeks out in the internal design, created by Patricia Urquiola, a synthesis between the young and informal spirit of the artist quarters and the old-fashioned elegance of Pan-European Berlin. It becomes, thus, a boutique hotel composed of 80 rooms and suites, whose social vocation is suggested by its Danish name—“das Stue” or “living room”. A place where behind the luxury there is something more intimate and profound.

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PORTRAIT FIRENZE Michele Bonan Opening: May 2014 A space out of time, where harmony defines the design. This is the concept of the interior design of the Portrait Firenze project, the new address for the Lugarno Collection which will open on May 2014.

The exclusive hotel facility designed by Michele Bonan wants to be a celebration of Florence proposing a portrait of the city starting from the 50’s, when the Italian high fashion was born. Portrait Firenze becomes aristocratic thanks to the simple lines which characterize its furniture and to the combination of different colours and materials with the contrast of the opaque gray with shiny gray and dark brown, of the iron with golden metal and wood. For this work, Michele Bonan has looked for textiles which were warm and relaxing to the touch, pleasant to graze. “This project could be seen as a puzzle with many pieces which must perfectly embed one another. Colours, materials, shapes: everything contribute to create the correct atmosphere”, says the architect.

“And on antithesis –continues Bonan – modernity means recovering the “old style” service classicism. Apart from the technology which must be present in each new facility, I believe that the future could express itself through the service more than through the design lines or the objects which enrich the ambient”.

The 34 suite will differ for size, from 40 up to 130 square meters and on the last floor they could join in an unique space of 273 square meters. Inside the suite there will be golden details and furniture made with smooth and velvety wood, textiles of the finest quality, large wardrobes, bathrooms made with Carrara marble and courtesy kit designed by “Salvatore Ferragamo”. Great attention will be reserved for technology thanks to the introduction of ultra flat mega screens , Bluetooth systems for music spreading and films showing, iPad, docking station, music libraries and DVDs, stereo, temperature advanced control system and Wifi.

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Michele Bonan Michele Bonan was born in Pistoia in 1958 and he works in Florence where he has opened his professional study becoming a specialist in the interior design for luxury hotels. Imaginative and eclectic he designed some of the hotels which have left their mark on the trend in this sector, and among them also the ones projected for Salvatore Ferragamo’s griffe. Bonan has grown up with a classical background, and he progressively extended this field thanks to his dedication to materials, their tactile values and their expressive properties.

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ALMAR JESOLO RESORT & SPA Sergio Bizzarro Opening: May 2014 Almar Jesolo Resort & Spa will open at the end of May 2014 and it will be the first five stars hotel on the shores of Jesolo destined to become the most exclusive receptive pole of the North Adriatic coast. This facility, which interior was designed by Sergio Bizzarro, counts 197 rooms, from the Executive Suite to the Family, a restaurant with 300 places, an auditorium with 650 seats, two swimming pools and a Spa of about 2000 square meters. The project has followed two fundamental principles: on the one hand the affirmation of Almar Jesolo as a new exclusive and recognizable brand, on the other hand the guarantee of the maximum comfort for the costumer understood as the capability of the receptive spaces of transferring to the costumer the sensation to feel at his own ease in time. Thus, it was necessary to find a leading wire clearly readable in each ambient – from the main hall to the Spa, to the restaurant, to the rooms, which could be take back to the interiors theatricality obtained by an efficient use of the illumination systems and by the use of architectural elements which mark the line among different areas located inside large unique spaces.

In particular, it is the ceiling theme to carry out this function, characterizing the most representative areas of the hotel (hall, restaurant, living), through the recurring use of elements ad hoc created which animate a space characterized by clear shapes and essential design. In every room colours and materials used in the common areas are in detail repeated in order to be directly recognizable as parts of a unique and well defined organism. Great importance is attributed to the bathroom, and in some cases this latter is characterized by a folding view to enjoy the panorama from the shower box too. In the suite the ambient is rendered more luxurious and refined through colours choices and valuable elements with large wardrobes, two large bathrooms and an airy living. Finally, each of the two Executive Suite comes from the unification of three rooms and they represent the maximum comfort level. These suite are located on the last floor and they enjoy of the best location; in the bed the fulcrum of the space resides and this latter is conceived as a dreaming ambient which totally overlooks the sea.

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Sergio Bizzarro Sergio Bizzarro is the founder architect of the Studio Bizzarro & Partners and he has accumulated a deep and specific experience in the field of the prestigious hotel facilities design for which he takes care of architecture and interior design with attention and elegance. He boasts deep knowledge in the field of the design of thermal facilities, Spa, and wellness centres and he is internationally considered as one of the major reference in this field.The image of his projects is always covered with the charm of an unmistakable elegance and style which joins emotional impact, set designing and dream.

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HOTEL EXCELSIOR GALLIA Marco Piva

Opening: September 2014 The renovation and the enlargement of the historical Hotel Excelsior Gallia, in the centre of Milan, are part of the more wide redevelopment process of Piazza Duca D’Aosta after the recent conclusion of the modernization works of the Stazione Centrale. The restyling work, entrusted to the architect Marco Piva, is aimed to bring this hotel facility, which now is extended inside the parcel, back to the splendor of the past, combining both property and designers wills searching for an equilibrium between ancient and new in a dynamic relation among shapes, spaces and materials.

So, the new project depicts a facility where close to an in style building, a totally restored and renovated bell’Epoque structure, a new generation building will be put beside and it will stand on Piazza Duca D’Aosta, Galvani street and Filzi street creating a light curtain of iron and glass, a counterpoint to the full and monumental shapes of the “historical” Gallia. The new volume, thanks to its façade made by serigraphed glass with irregular successions of clearness and dark colours, proposes itself as a junction element among the textures characterizing the Pirelli skyscraper façade and the more distant ones of the Galfa Tower and of the new Porta Nuova buildings.

Inside the hotel several new functions are housed: meeting, congress and exhibitions centre on the ground floor, a wide Spa on the sixth floor, a swimming pool, gym, saunas, hammam, wellness centre and a bar with panoramic terrace on the seventh floor. Along Filzi street the second wide entrance of the hotel was made allowing the restoration of the historical frontage inside the building: the entrance gives the access to a wide foyer, an “interior square” covered by a glass roof located between the mezzanine and first floor. Interiors are designed with a great care to material, textures and details and they combine elements of design and Milanese Life Style with the Decò everlasting elegance.

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Marco Piva Graduated at Politecnico of Milan, where today he is the Post Degree Masters coordinator, Marco Piva actually works on architectonical, interior and industrial design projects both in Italy and in foreign countries, designing hotels, holiday villages, congress centres, meeting halls, exposition galleries, thematic exhibitions and urban scenographies.

The uninterrupted research on hotel facilities, on formal and functional features of spaces, on technologies and materials is one of the fundamental element of the planning and projecting philosophy of his Study which designs for famous companies such as Ege, Gervasoni, Kvadrat, Guzzini Illuminazione, Moroso, Oikos, Poliform, Rapsel, Sicis, Tisettanta, Zonca.

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home, suite home a suite decorated by domus market means your guests will feel welcomed in the most sophisticated and cosiest of ways.

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JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA Matteo Thun Opening: September 2014 Located on an artificial Island which overlooks Piazza San Marco, the JW Marriott Venice Resort & SPA will be officially inaugurated in occasion of the Mostra del Cinema on September 2014, when it will open under the direction of the famous American chain. On the Sacca Sessola surface, scattered by twenty buildings in different state of conservation which long ago have housed the hospital of the city, the new hotel facility has imposed a delicate renovation work destined to involve at the same time the landscape and architectonical dimensions and the interior design.

A total and impressive intervention, magnificent and ambitious, and its singular entity has imposed the sustain of an integrated projecting study. Thus, the direction of the ample building yard was entrusted to Matteo Thun and nowadays this yard is in progress on a surface of 16 hectares and it is studied in detail: through paths, spontaneous gardens, flowering flowerbeds, vegetable gardens, small canals the project will have to solve the full coexistence of the preexistences, constituted by rural buildings and warehouses, a church and the ample medical building dated back to the 1900.

Following the “box in the box” logic, restaurants, meeting and conference halls, under cover swimming pools, wellness services as well as the 266 between rooms and suite equipped with a light look which resulted from an able fusion of details in 50’s style with contemporary furniture, will be located inside the structure. Even the chosen tones explicit the sophisticated topicality of the ambient, wrapped in snow-white, pearl grey of the precious iridescent tones of the wall coverings, of the dark wood furniture grains, of the textile details of azure tones. The chosen materials are as more as possible of local origin and they respect the Km 0 rule which is really loved by Thun who aspires to transform the JW Marriott Venice Resort & SPA into a homogenous and highly sustainable system.

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Matteo Thun Born in Bolzano in 1952, Matteo Thun has studied with Oskar Kokoschka at the Salzburg Academy. In 1975 he has gotten the Ph.D. at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence with Adolfo Natalini. In 1978 he has moved to Milan where he has started to work in the study of Ettore Sottsass. In 1981 he was one of the Membership Group founders. In 1984 he opened in Milan his own study which develops, among the other subjects, prototypes of energetically efficient houses. He is a member of the RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects.

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PRIZEOTEL HAMBURG Karim Rashid Opening: June 2014 Optical fitted carpets of bright tones, fluid furniture of pastel tones, transparent or satin glass alcoves. Moreover, prints on the walls and an architectural illumination which renders plastic even the ceiling surface, wrinkling it in order to allow it to reach the sculptural status such as any other designed element.

The Prizeotel in Hamburg will open on June 2014 housing inside the highly imaginative universe of Karim Rashid, his love for the flou colours and for lacquered finishing, his pop heritage and the refusal to square shapes, his idea of democratic design and his famous attraction for the decorative graphics. Close to the central railway station of this German city, the dreamy world of the designer will conquer the common spaces of the hotel facility, invading them all in each available centimeter, both horizontally and vertically; but it will also crowd the 216 rooms where the mark of the designer will be impressed with indelible letters on the mirrors which will quote the slogan so dear to Rashid, “Globalove”.

So, the Hamburg hotel puts forward an explicit declaration of reception directed to every costumer who will chose it as destination for his stay: unconventional and so strongly contemporary it is ideal for business travelers, for young pairs, and for everyone who is looking for the maximum level of comfort and design with a very competitive price. King-size beds, flat screen TVs, music spreading systems, ample showers with directional water pipes, internet corners are just some of the services guaranteed inside this facility which with only two stars provides totally exclusive equipping, aspiring to hold a crucial role in the Hamburg touristic market. To demonstrate that the possibility of creating a sustainable receptive development is not just a mirage which will lead to a not necessarily short-term profit and to a constant comfort for the costumers.

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Karim Rashid Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designer of this generation.

With more than 3000 designs under production, 300 awards and with job orders in more than 35 countries, Karim Rashid has become a legend in the Design. His works are housed in 20 permanent exhibitions, besides in the art galleries all over the world.

He has won the Red Dot Award, the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, the I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review e the IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Award and he has become famous even thanks to dreamlike hospitality projects such as the Semiramis Hotel in Athens , the Myhotel Brighton and the Nhow Hotel in Berlin.

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TRUMP TOWER PUNE Matteo Nunziati Opening: July 2014 Integrated in a context of ample urban development in the South-East of Mumbai, the imposing project of the Trump Tower in Pune comprehends two skyscrapers with 25 floors for a total of 46 flats for each building, developed by the Trump Organization investment society in collaboration with the Panchshil Reality which was responsible for the architectonical bond. The design of all the interiors of the whole facility, the selection and coordination of furniture supplying firms were entrusted to Matteo Nunziati Study.

Besides the luxurious habitations the intervention also concerns the public areas destined to offer several services such as the 24h surveillance, the entrance with reception and waiting area on the ground floor and the podium floor – where the outdoors swimming pools, a yoga and fitness area, two massage halls, a reading area, a business centre and an hall dedicated to the poker are located. These spaces were fancied by the architect in the name of a strongly contemporary style, both sophisticated and essential. The Lobby is characterized by the 5 meters high columns interrupted in several dimensions and covered with precious Silk Georgette marble and the same is for the entrance. The same kind of marble was also used for the walls where a particular manufacturing of engraving the traditional Indians themes is referred to the decorative culture of the place.

At the end of the hall, close to the two waiting areas, illuminated bronze niches pleasantly interrupt the marble covers rigour. The ceiling is outlined by light cuts of various lengths. The Silk Georgette marble gives continuity and harmony in the flats in a particular strip format which underlines its veins with a magical and suggesting effect. Between the entrance and the living, high decorated glass panels define the spaces creating a sensation of intimacy and privacy and maintaining a sensation of levity, transparency and spaciousness at the same time.

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Matteo Nunziati During 2000, Matteo Nunziati opened his own study in Milan working on interior architectures and industrial product, and in this latter field he was decorated with the prestigious reviews of the Good Design Award 2011 and of the Wallpaper Design Award 2011. Specialized in the luxury hotels, wellness centres and SPA design he have projected and he is still projecting in Italy, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Maldive and China.

Moreover, he designs shows, exhibitions, events and fair exhibitions preparations. His projects are published in the major Italian and international design magazines.

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In the hearth of one of the most suggestive bays of the city and in particular in Worli, a 33 floors building is under construction and 19 of these floors will house one of the most eagerly awaited five stars hotel in Mumbai. On the ground floor, the tower will allow the entrance in the hotel through an entry Lounge and it is completely covered by glass and water and here, through a group of six lifters the costumer could directly reach the 14th floor which constitutes the real office of the Lobby and the Hotel. Here the space is dilated in an staggering way: on one hand the double height of the ceilings develops the volume up to nine meters of height, on the other hand an uninterrupted glass wall which overlooks the wide Worli bay opening the view both to the city and to the Ocean from the 14th floor height. The so strong and intrusive nature of the place defines the prevailing features of the Interior project of the Rebosio+Spagnulo study: a bright ceiling which freely winds in space simulating the sinuous passage of the ocean breeze through the glass wall and the ample terrace on the opposite side of the building. The decorations of some walls realized by metal moulds are referred to shells and sand sediments and so the coverings of some walls which were made with a vertical section of local stones referring to the sandstones on the coast. On the fifteenth floor there is the SPA which is literally excavated in the stones and, like a cave, it is filled with the Jacuzzi water and overlooks the bay through a glass wall at the surface of the water level. The project for the Fine Dining restaurant is as well characterized by distinctive features.

Bright surfaces of marbles and ceilings and of matter textures on the walls “contain” a central wine cellar considered as an independent segmented volume characterized by a strong sculptural impact. The expected number of the rooms is 96, divided in Deluxe Room, Junior Suites, One bedroom Suites and a Presidential Suite. The very high level of expected finishing and materials, necessary for the high range Boutique Hotels standards, expects an Indian origin prevalence.

Rebosio+Spagnulo R+S Design has its office in Milan and it was born from the professional experiences of the architects Igor Rebosio and Federico Spagnulo. With a training in the fields of architecture and design, the study has developed a particular attention to the interior design projects for residences and luxury Hotel both in Italy and in foreign countries.The attention to details and the constant tension between modernity and tradition always characterize the projects of the two proprietors who continuously decline the concept of style transforming it in an unique and made to measure thought experience.

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GRAND HOTEL COURMAYEUR MONT BLANC Simonetti&Associati Opening: December 2014 The Grand Hotel Courmayeur Mont Blanc comes from a clear design idea: the insertion of a contemporary architecture in a place characterized by an high landscape charm, respecting both traditions and the typical materials of the place. The exterior architecture created by a concept of the Studio Citterio in collaboration with Anna Giorgi & Partners, is inspired by the genius loci of the Val D’Aosta and it is composed by 4 chalet placed following the natural slope of the ground. Each building presents a covering made with layers of “losa” stones and others covering materials typical of the Val D’Aosta such as stones and wood for the façades which are combined with the ample glass walls of the body of the building. These glass walls, peculiar to the contemporary architecture, underline the relation between the hotel interiors and the context. In fact, the north side of the hotel facility overlooks the Mont Blanc massif and the Brevna glacier while the south one overlooks the woods and the Courmayeur city. The architectonical design of the interiors starts from the same project purpose adopted for the exteriors that is the relation between tradition and contemporariness declined following the most innovative standard of the five stars hotels. The 72 rooms express comfort and refinement through the constituent simplicity of the spaces and the interiors rationalization warmed through the use of local materials such as stone and wood. The warmth and the clam transmitted by the natural elements and the attention to the details without virtuosity perfectly harmonize with the mountain landscape which requires sobriety and respect projecting the visitor to the listening of the nature.The Club House, which is the body of the building, is developed on three floors and it represents the main common space.

On his arrival the costumer could perceive the building volume having a glance thanks to the triple height space located in the entrance of the Hall. Restaurant, American bar and reception dialogue through an unique vertical space which is put in communication thanks to a spectacular wooden stair which gives value to the work of local carpenters.

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Simonetti&Associati Forty years of activity permits a careful selection of professional men equipped with creativity and competence who collaborating with Massimo Simonetti have created an efficient project team establishing the “Studio Simonetti&Associati”.

The collaboration of these young architects, with an optimal qualification and growing experience, allowed to carry out the project of some of the most elegant and prestigious Italian hotels besides other important projects.The use of the best technologies in the computerized design is supported by the creation of clear and detailed artistic illustrations.

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GREEN MOTEL VERGIATE Simone Micheli Opening: July 2014 The architect Simone Micheli has taken care of the interior design project for the Green Hotel in Vergiate – Varese, transforming every room of the structure from a traditional meeting space to an of passion and energetic space where exchange strong and involving emotions and fleeting erotic touches and where the interaction and the reciprocity of the movements can be lived in an alternative and provocative area out of the usual space and time. Each room, place of pleasure and burning sensations, permits to the client to completely feel at his own ease and, following his senses, to enter in that playful and lustful dimension which each furniture element encourages.

The lights variability allows games of personal and seducing vivacity and the LED, which change colours and intensity, permits to increase the privacy of the actions and the warmth of the acts in order to spend unforgettable romantic moments. A piece of furniture for the TV is equipped with a mirror on which private acts and movements images are reflected and it is located in front of the bed which is characterized by intriguing and essential shapes. A pouf, vigorous touch of warmth and tool for exalting the free and alternative sexuality completes the preparation of the place increasing the possibility of attracting games and unconventional meetings. The night area converges in the bathroom one thanks to an uninterrupted synthetic flooring. A transparent surface contains the shower-ambient and continues the game of lights and images making the atmosphere sensual, dynamic and exciting.

Finally, every room is equipped with a private car-park and a direct access from the outside of the structure and so nothing could break the privacy. The amazing and refined ambient leads the costumer to a dimension far from the usual everyday reality giving him the freedom of enjoying his own instants of pleasure. The sensual variable images of a woman are taken by Francesca Mandelli D’Agostini.

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Simone Micheli His professional activity is subdivided in several directions: from the architecture to the interiors, from the design to the visual design passing through the communication; his creations, sustainable and always attentive to the environment, are characterized by strong identity and uniqueness.The numerous works for public administrations and for important private purchasers connected to the residential and community world appointed him one of the main actors in the European design dimension.There are several monographs, publications on Italian and international magazines and TV interviews dedicated to his work.

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PULLMAN DOHA WEST BAY Lorenzo Bellini Opening: 2015 At the end of the 2011 Lorenzo Bellini Associates was entrusted to create the interior architecture for the Pullman West Bay of Doha, a five stars hotel which is developed on one of the two sister towers which are under construction in the most cool part of the city. This hotel will be constituted by 470 unites divided in 373 rooms and suites and 97 apartments and it is conceived in order to become a real attractive pole for the city. The hotel entrance is allowed by two ramps which lead to the hall, that is common for both the towers and which is developed together with the common spaces on the second floor of the building: the principal architectonical element is represented by the slightly inclined stone wall which underlined by the grazing light and running along all the interior perimeter creates a suggestive fountain in line with the hotel principal entrance.

Other distinguishing elements are the false ceiling which defines and virtually separates the transit zone from the other various functions, the two wide apertures which with a relevant alteration of materials and heights visibly mark the accesses to the zone dedicated to restoration and to the congress centre, and this latter is the largest one in Doha with an important Ball Room covering a surface of more than 1300 square meters. In the hall the interior design plays on a very delicate combination of modern furniture and reinterpretations of elements coming from the Arabian tradition and it is rendered fluid by the chromatic choices which betting on the contrast among the snow-white and the grey tones and on strong fuchsia tones; this is an unusual choice for Bellini who is more inclined to that contemporary warm style which we can find in the rooms and in the numerous suites which play on neutral tones revived by turquoise and rust-coloured brush-strokes. In the wellness centre and in the SPA, located together with the swimming pools on the third floor, Bellini bets again to the contrasts between the bright surfaces of the marbles (black and white, alternating with contrast) and the opaque surfaces of the furniture covered with orange coloured hide: in the relax zone durmast whitened brush-strokes and plaited hide seats enriched by colour changing effects in the name of the colour therapy.

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Lorenzo Bellini Lorenzo Bellini starts his professional activity following the crowd of the building development of Rome during the 70’s, leaving the mark with some residential typologies. During the 80’s he started the international activity with projects and creations in Cameroon, Middle East, North Africa, and Caribbean. In the last 20 years Lorenzo Bellini principally worked on the design of high level hotel facilities gaining a prestigious position in the survey of international hotels.Typical trait of the hotels designed by Bellini is the fact that these structures are characterized by their own distinguishing soul, conceived as sum of personality, atmosphere and hospitality destined to leave the mark.

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HOTEL INDIGO ST GEORGE CaberlonCaroppi Hotel & Design Opening: Aprile 2014

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In the historical centre of Rome, not far from the most famous monuments and urban areas such as Campo dei Fiori and Piazza Navona, the Hotel St. George revives under a new guise after the acquisition of the hotel facility by the Indigo brand which is part of the InterContinental Hotels Group chain. The passing of property necessarily implies a reorganization of the building spaces and a total redraw developed on the need of interpreting and reproducing the brand of this hotels chain which bets on a fresh and vivacious atmosphere. CaberlonCaroppi Hotel & Design was entrusted to translate these new exigencies and its project maintains the artistic and cultural charm of the historical Via Giulia – on which the structure overlooks – ably combining contemporary furniture and details with pastel coloured textiles, vintage prints and geometric textures.

The hotel entrance is destined to welcome the costumers in a baroque atmosphere sealed by an huge mirror leant on the ground which reflects and amplifies the surrounding space: it has historical roots and it is one of the numerous preserved elements and among them all, stone walls, pavement portions, arches and ancient pillars stand out.

All these components are showed up by the smooth and relaxing illumination and on them the more recent elements stand out: monochrome carpets, circular pouf and modular libraries on the walls. Finally, in the intervention designed by Chiara Caberlon and Ermanno Caroppi, windows are deprived of the heavy draperies in order to open the view on the surrounding panorama: the interior becomes so bright and light and in a tight relation with the surrounding city. Pavements are made in light wood, furniture are white and the walls interrupted only by the insertions of giant posters of paintings or vintage prints of the 60’s. Everything plays on the contraposition of old and new, of décor and ornament absence, of essentiality and customization.

Caberloncaroppi Hotel & Design In 2002 Chiara Caberlon and Ermanno Caroppi have founded the CaberlonCaroppi Hotel&Design study with the aim of combining and sharing the various matured experiences to elaborate and experiment new hospitality concepts.The study carries out consulting activity for hotel management societies, services societies for the touristic immovable development and private clients. Moreover, the study works on the design for famous international brands (hotel and resorts chains). Starting from 2007 the two architects acquired the teaching of the Interior Design course focused on the hotel design at the Poliarte of Ancona

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HOTEL AMBASSADORI Studio D73 Opening: January 2016 In the centre of Tbilisi, the Georgia capital city, the Hotel Ambassadori is on the point of opening and it is conceived in order to become one of the most important hotels of the city. In fact, the facility will house a five stars hotel of refined elegance where the Made in Italy will be the absolute protagonist: both for the interior design definition, which was entrusted to Studio D73, and for the furniture supplying and finishing materials. Thus, precious marble, refined textiles, important ornaments and wrought iron details characterize both the common spaces and the rooms where the classic style is declined into an absolutely measured dimension without any excess. Everything is played on the delicate chromatic combination among white, beige, and the black: the first two tones describe rooms and the spacious suites, illuminated by suspended pendant lamps, wall appliqué and silk and crystal abat-jour placed on the sides of the King size beds. Here the white colour identifies the furniture, the ceiling, the lampshades, and it is in contrast with the hazelnut colour tone used for the moquette, for the seats padding and the bedhead. In the common areas the snowwhite ludic marble pavement is enriched by black coloured insertions which square and define the places from a functional point of view.

Wide mirrors placed on the ceiling project a 30’s atmosphere where aristocracy is the absolute protagonist: in fact the structure will be the meeting point for local and foreign entrepreneurs, for politic and institutional representatives. The intervention performed by the architects Marco Vismara and Andrea Viganò is based on a conception of luxury which evokes the classic but which considers in a priority way the craft and tailoring value of piece of furniture, surface and detail.

Scheduled for 2016 the Hotel Ambassadori will open in the name of the uniqueness and Made in Italy.

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STUDIO D73 Marco Vismara and Andrea Viganò have taken a degree in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan in 1999 and their thesis has won the Premio Camerini for the Building Prefabrication. After several experiences both in Italy and in foreign countries, they opened the Studio D73 in Brescia, which is dedicated to the design of commercial activities (Metra international Award 2007), fitness and wellness centres, hotel and residential facilities.The aim of D73 is the will to use the design not only as a cold practice of style but as a tool for restoring the concept of the individual as the main protagonist of spaces, of the sharing among people and of the environment as social box.

Up today, in addition to the main office in Brescia, new ones were added in Moscow and Tunis in order to directly follow the foreign markets.

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