Wine labels framed like old masters. That curatorial instinct — applying the reverence usually reserved for fine art to the labels of Quintarelli Amarone and Biondi-Santi Brunello — tells you almost everything about Hotel De' Ricci before you've registered the cobblestones outside or the warm terracotta render of its sixteenth-century palazzo facade on Via Giulia, one of Rome's most architecturally coherent Renaissance streets. The property's organizing idea is Italian fine wine: each of its nineteen rooms takes its palette and character from a specific producer or varietal, the labels mounted above beds in oversized frames that give the spaces something of a private collector's study rather than a conventional hotel room. The interiors work a confident mid-century Italian register — velvet button-back armchairs in olive and gold that carry the easy authority of Gio Ponti's idiom, Eames-era occasional chairs, parquet laid in wide planks, and slim floor lamps with articulated brass arms. Tropical fresco-painted panels appear behind beds in several rooms, their sun-bleached palette of ochre and sage playing against dusty blue and pale yellow walls. The wine bar anchors the ground floor with a walnut display cabinet stocked like a serious enoteca, surrounding a low seating arrangement of tufted velvet and a geometric-tiled floor. Upstairs, the restaurant's smoked-mirror panelling and geometric-patterned barrel chairs in olive velvet give the dining room the atmosphere of a Roman club circa 1965.

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