Destination Milano. Contributed by Ben Harris.
Beautiful rest in “Bella Italia”. Luxury time, spa in style, art and design.
Bellissimo.
The Bulgari hotel is all of this. The 18th Century Palazzo is still the hottest address in town. The location sits between Via Montenapoleone and the Accademia di Brera, floating in a dreamy garden of rolling of almost neon-green lawn and elevated outdoor lounge arranged in sexy décor and fichus trees as manicured as the model-looking patrons.
Interiors live up to even the loftiest of architectural expectations with Zimbabwe black marble and Zen-undertones compliments of Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel.
An in-house Italian eatery offers refined cuisine in a fashionable setting. Three separate bar areas include the lobby lounge, a main bar defined by floor-to-ceiling windows facing an outdoor garden with oval-shaped bar cast in black resin in addition to Il Giardino garden lounge. Both the spa and fitness center with indoor pool are amazingly nice.
The rooms are small and more intimate than you expect on first site.
11 suites include Zen design spaces with monochromatic furnishings and wood-paneled walls that have maintained the test of time in the most fashionable of circumstances.
Wood floors with dark woven rugs illuminate further details of teak and oak even in entry-level Superior Rooms with corner windows facing a 1930s street scene or elegant garden.
Bathrooms are stocked in Bulgari Green Tea bath products between black granite bathtub and a separate shower lined in Navona travertine.
Larger specialty suites offer more entertaining and living space with singular option including a teak-lined terrace.
As soon as the doors close you feel like at home, it is a green dream amidst the vibrant metropolis.
Livin in style in Italia / Milano, beautiful pool, its worth it to be here.
For foodies: Carlo e Camilla
The kitchen is entrusted to the Chef Luca Pedata and a team of young chefs under the direction of Chef Carlo Cracco. The culinary offer is a concert of clear and unexpected details flavors. The origin of everything is very high quality raw materials, selected in full compliance with the seasons and favoring the production of the territory.
Art:
Sounds easy, but only works with a special sense of intuition: “It always starts from a blank sheet of paper, from a silence, by an empty box. This time the empty box of Tanja Solci, art director, curator of exhibitions, designer of installations, is the historic sawmill grandparents, a factory in 1929 with the aesthetic and creative culture, that box is now the unexpected and magical container that hosts the gastro-bistro Charles and Camilla in Sawmill, born from the encounter between Tanja Solci, Carlo Cracco and Nicola Fanti. The set includes two long wooden tables, noble crystal chandeliers, sessions AG Fronzoni and produced by Jasper Morrison Cappellini. Solci dress the table with an unusual mise en place: an expanse of 100 and white porcelain dishes with different designs, selected out of production of Richard Ginori. A stage set where conviviality and sharing together the history of design.
The author was invited by the Bulgari hotel.
