The Exedra Milan Hotel
The Exedra Milano is the newest member of the Boscolo hotel group. In transforming what was an 11-story bank into a canny hybrid of “Alice in Wonderland” fantasy and space-age chic. The hotel made its debut in October. There are Technicolor, multidirectional plush velvet divans and slinky armchairs, some of which are backlit, and a seafood restaurant with surfaces as black as the sea is blue. On the floors, butterflies flutter and virtual goldfish swim innocently off the edges of the Calacatta marble. Loopier still is the enormous white column encrusted with harlequin-patterned mirrors that plunges down a level to the Lambruscheria wine bar, where metal tubes encircle it.
The spa has sculptured, Ajax-white plastic curves from the swimming pool to the ceiling, and is studded with shiny silver bubbles like so many candy buttons. There are 154 rooms upstairs (starting at about $550 a night). No two of them are exactly alike, but all feature crisp white free-standing closets with irresistible self-closing cabinet drawers. They form nifty barriers to the bracingly spacious bathrooms, where the counters are decked out with a range of multicolored, Boscolo-branded shower gels in scents like orange blossom and myrrh. Located in the heart of Milan‘s fashion district, Italy, it is an inspired fusion of italian style, art and original design, combined with the renowned elegance.
