Keeping a grand nineteenth-century Milanese palazzo in genuine conversation with contemporary design without flattening either into the other was the central problem Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel faced when the Bulgari Hotel Milano commission arrived in 2004. Their solution was essentially urban: set the 58-room hotel within a neoclassical building on Via Privata Fratelli Gabba, back it against the walled botanical garden of the Brera Academy, and let the accumulated greenery do much of the atmospheric work. The exterior images confirm this — mature plane trees and dense shrub planting soften a courtyard facade where dark steel window frames give the new construction a precise, jeweller's-cabinet restraint against the older stucco volume. Inside, Citterio's material vocabulary is characteristically spare and deeply considered. The restaurant, lined in warm-toned timber panelling and hung with oxidised-bronze-finish ceilings, deploys cantilevered chrome-base chairs that carry a quiet debt to mid-century Italian rationalism. Guest rooms divide between two registers: in one, a tightly edited palette of charcoal linen curtains, lacquered black side tables, and pale oak floors gives the garden view its full weight; in another, a velvet chaise in deep sage and terracotta lounge chair signal a more gathered, residential warmth. Below ground, the spa pool — tiled in luminous emerald mosaic, flanked by travertine columns and a frosted-glass screen in the same jade tone — distils the whole project's ambition: Roman in its gravity, unmistakably Milanese in its finish.

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The Bulgari Hotel, Milano is an unexpected oasis of tranquillity secluded in the heart of Milan’s most prestigious shopping and cultural area. The hotel features 58 rooms & suites, a 4,000 sq m private garden, a spa with indoor pool, a sophisticated restaurant and bar with terrace lounge overlooking the garden. The bold style of the hotel restaurant and bar and informal approach to service create a pleasant atmosphere for lunches and dinners and for enjoying the original, dynamic Italian aperitivo that has made the Bulgari Hotel Milano lounge bar famous. Highly distinctive and contemporary, the Bulgari Hotel, Milano is giving new expression to the Italian flair for innovation and tradition.