Roman Holiday
Last March I took a trip to Italy to visit the sites along with visting my sister while she was studying abroad. Our trip started to Italy started in Rome with a long stop in Florence and a jaunt to Venice.
Everyone knows the Italy is the birth place of many of the designers that we know and love. I personally adore many of the handbags designed by Fendi,Ferragamo and Bottega Veneta little did I know that had added interior designer to their resumes.
I recently found out that the designers mentioned above all had a hand in decorating some Roman hotels.
Owned by the Fendi family and carefully restored by Anna Fendi Venturini this beautifully decorated villa along the Tiber river offers 15 thoughtfully designed rooms. The perfect get-away for the fashionista in your life. Each room has a unique theme such as the Karl Lagerfeld suite. The design aesthetic or a balance between traditional Roman culture and 20th century modernism.
Here is a sneak pic at some of the suites:
FERRAGAMO PORTRAIT SUITES HOTEL
Leonardo Ferragamo launched his own lifestyle and hospitality brand, Lungarno Hotels, in 1995, and it’s most recent project is Portrait Suites hotel in Rome on Via Condotti. Right outside the Spanish Steps you can help yourself to luxury shopping at Ferragamo’s flag ship store and then go upstairs to the townhouse in which the hotel resides. Designed by Michele Bonan, each room incorporates luxurius materials like wood, marble and even ultra luxe boar skin.
BOTTEGA VENETA SUITE at the St. Regis Grand Hotel
This amazing suite consists of a foyer, three bedrooms, three baths, and a living room with a fireplace and three large windows overlooking Rome. They used very light colors like uniform khaki, linen, parchment and taupe that make the room chic and sophisicated. Alcantara, leather, linen and all signature elements in Bottega Veneta interiors are used as upholstery and window treatments. The room is also furnished with pieces from the Bottega Veneta furniture collection.
Ciao Bella! I’m in the mood to plan my next vacation!
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My living room is one of the rooms that evolved drastically from when we first moved one. Originally I painted the walls chocolate brown and did accents of white, blue and orange. That lasted maybe 2 years.
Our dining room sat empty for months. Okay maybe it was empty for just a handful of weeks and then we couldn’t take it anymore and put in a folding table and plastic outdoor chairs, but in my mind that was still empty.
On the main floor of our house we have a Florida room. Being that it’s a Florida room it is a considered a 3 season room, because there is no heat in the room. The previous owners used it as an indoor patio with outdoor furniture and it looked like this when we moved in.
The greek key pattern in the floor at the Fendi hotel is fabulous! My favorite is the Bottega Veneta suite. It looks like the perfect place to come back to after a long day of sightseeing. Beautiful!
Oooh we are going to Rome for Christmas this year! The Italians definitely know style.
Does the Bottega Shopper come with the suite! (hope so) Lovely, lovely rooms.
How chic are these room? I so want to go now. Shopping and this? Yes, please.
Oh I so wish the BV suite came with a free bag that would be great.
I drooled all over their store in Florence. But I left empty handed!
Lucky for me I found a BV bag in awesome shape at a thrift shop for pennies! I love it. The leather is so soft.
love this – oh I really want to go!!!!
thanks for your comment!
Joni
when were you there? I was there mid march