Along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the elevated boulevard that cuts through Naples' Vomero hill above the gulf, a terracotta-pink palazzo dating to the late nineteenth century carries the confident cornice lines and arched window surrounds of Neapolitan Liberty architecture — and at its centre, inserted without apology, a six-storey curtain of blue-tinted glass that announces the building's conversion into De Bonart Naples, part of Hilton's Curio Collection. The intervention is deliberately legible, refusing to pretend the old and new are the same thing, while the roofline addition — a fully glazed pavilion visible from the images above, topped by a pitched steel-and-glass structure — turns what might have been an awkward attic floor into the property's most commanding space. Inside, the 128 rooms navigate between two registers: some deploy sage-green panelling, dark-framed four-poster beds over herringbone parquet, and wrought-iron balcony railings that frame views across the city toward Vesuvius; others shift to an all-ivory palette of moulded boiserie, quilted velvet seating, and floor-to-ceiling steel-framed windows that dissolve the wall between room and roofscape. The rooftop restaurant, framed by its pitched glass canopy, hangs a woven-reed chandelier above polished dark stone floors — a piece of craft against an otherwise spare interior. The terrace beyond, furnished with rope-woven chairs in cream and teak alongside potted olive trees, gives the hotel its most characteristically Neapolitan moment: a city of extraordinary density, held at arm's length by the view.

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