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The new home to Brera’s home
Brera is the über-Chic Village-in-A-City of Milan, loved by the charm of town smaller that houses in her galleries, boutiques and cobbled lanes. Recently it was inaugurated on the edge of the neighborhood, one block from the Alla Scala Theater, it is Casa Brera. The interior classics of the rationalist building of the 1950s have benefited from the multicolored attention of Patricia Urquiola’s high brightness; The 101 rooms and 15 suites enjoy the excesses of day and space light, with corner work food areas and bathrooms coated with rich pink and chestnut marble.
There are several bars and restaurants in their eight floors, including a Japanese buzzing with Italian inflection, Odachi and a roof bar adjacent to a jewel of a pool.
Front design under
Melbourne, the eminently habitable cultural capital of Australia, has some fabulous independent services accommodations (grateful to United Places, with its location of the Botanical Garden) and the large brand hotels (the new Ritz-Carlton wins its stripes with level 64 Spa -64 alone). However, there is a historical and disconcerting shortage of hotels that combine an excellent real service. This has changed with the arrival of Melbourne Place: the building of 191 rooms and 14 floors in the heart of the city’s central business district was designed by Kennedy Nolan, its facade of concrete and steel that made an outstanding statement.
The adjustment is read like Who’s Who of Contemporary Australian Design: Furniture is from Dowel Jones, Ross Didier and Homegrown Design Studio Jardan, among others; Custom lighting is courtesy of Volker Haug Studio. The service promises to be equally impressive, thanks to those who took advantage of Tracy Atherton, previously of the Jackalope hotels, the escape from the Victoria’s Wine Country and one of the General Rock Star Managers of Aman Resorts, to direct the show in the Rooms and on the floor (the hotel bar, Mr. Mills, is already crowded in hours after work). The 136 square meter penthouse is the room to reserve.
Southern Gothic Chic with a touch
The Bardo Hotel, the gleaming flagship of a new American hotel collection that aims to bring the style of the first city to the second cities of the United States, is changing all kinds of tropes of “southern hospitality” in its head. Its creators are called “Casas Clubs Urbano”, which in the case of Savannah’s property, the two acres, is necessary. The hotel is partly in a 1888 mansion in front of the Forsyth Park (the oldest in the city), and partly in an intelligent addition of low height whose suites overlook a long and sexy pool.
The rooms are pure chic of the third millennium, from the low sofas to the oak headers; There is a group of dining bars and rooms, both indoors and outside, as well as a fitness pavilion. The spa, Saltgrass, mitigates its modest dimensions with decadent treatments (the 90 -minute alchemist displays masks of thickness collagen butter and 20 minutes of LED light therapy).
Living the good life in Lapa
If you have found its way to Lapa, it is already on the right path: it is one of the most atmospheric neighborhoods in Lisbon, with a large number of panoramic views of the city and Tejo-River (its hill is one of the highest points of the city). Tarabraba de Nine Rooms is the result of the restoration of one of those handles, whose owner, the Interior designer of Swiss-Ferench, Rose Fournier, takes advantage of its wandering and garden design in terraces to create a luxury and warra atmosphere.
Marrakech Maison d’Hôtes de Fournier, Riad TarabelIt is already very loved among creators manufacturers; This advanced second place is a more feminine issue, with skirt beds, feast table clothes, floral and botanical prints framed. The gardens room has what has to be one of the best views to drink tea in the city. Come in spring, a late lunch next to the pool, with the jacarandas in full flowering, only the ticket sounds.