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Philippe Starck

In the epicentre of Venice, the city that has held the title as Europe’s most mysterious and exhilarating for over half a millennium, PalazzinaG gracefully sits on the edge of the Grand Canal. Its classical 16th century frame, sometime home of generations of nobility and haute-bourgeois families, is at the site of what was, several centuries earlier, a Roman bath. Venice, a city throbbing with the echoes of passionately melancholy grandeur, calls for new structures to pay apt homage to its historical aesthetic roots but implores designers and architects to breathe into it new life. This impressive specimen, the first hotel in Italy designed by multifarious originator Philippe Starck, performs exactly these tasks, and does so to perfection.

The commitment to maintaining the classical skeleton extends to a restored central colonnade and modernized columns throughout the building, which is otherwise taken to extremes in abstraction and geometry, contrasting rigid contemporary standards with those similarly rigid classical elements. Its 22 rooms including seven suites/apartments boast canal views and “tailor made” luxury – most elements in the hotel are made to measure by the French designer extraordinaire. Each guest is invited to experience his or her ideal of luxury with 24hour service aimed to fulfill desires and bring the fantasy of Venetian life to fruition. The decorative elements and materials generally used around the PalazzinaG, made from the most exquisite of Venetian traditions of craftsmanship such as deep mahogany, rich bricks and “terrazzo”, melt into the elegance and fluidity of the contemporary design into which they are entrenched and smoothly integrated.