Positioned on the upper floors of a tower rising from the Huangpu district, with the Pudong skyline — Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Tower, the full Lujiazui constellation — arrayed across the Huangjiang in unobstructed panorama, the Bulgari Hotel Shanghai opened in 2021 with a brief that few luxury brands could have executed with equal confidence: make a high-rise hotel feel intimate. Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, the Milan-based practice that has designed every Bulgari hotel since the brand's Rome debut in 2004, brought their established vocabulary to the forty-eight rooms here — dark-stained oak floors, textured wall panels in warm gold and ivory, Carrara marble desk surfaces, and furniture with the walnut-and-linen restraint that has become the house signature. The wraparound floor-to-ceiling glazing, visible throughout the guest rooms, turns the Pudong view into a kind of living artwork that shifts from haze to blaze across a single day. The restaurant interior, by contrast, draws on an earlier Shanghai — coffered plaster ceilings with foliate detailing, dark-framed multipane windows, slate-blue walls — a room that carries the atmosphere of a well-restored Republican-era dining hall rather than a contemporary hotel venue. On the rooftop terrace, teak decking and planted greenery soften the perimeter while the illuminated skyline performs nightly across the river. The Bulgari branded throw folded across the beds and the Murano glass objects placed throughout are the small, consistent gestures that hold the collection together globally while this particular property remains insistently, specifically Shanghai.

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New for 2018, Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai is destined to be a big player on the Shanghai five-star hospitality scene. With the timeless glamour associated with the Bvlgari and a commanding bird's-eye view from the upper eight floors of a 48-storey building.