Rome has a way of making newcomers prove themselves, which makes the particular confidence of The Hoxton, Rome all the more striking. Rather than chasing the city's ancient grain, the hotel leans fully into its 1970s concrete host in the residential Salario district — a seven-floor building that carries none of the centro storico's grandeur and is better for it. Ennismore Design Studio and London-based Fettle Design channelled mid-century Italian modernism into the 192 rooms, layering salvaged Murano glass chandeliers, local marble, terrazzo, and herringbone parquet with a collector's ease rather than a decorator's anxiety. The rooms show two distinct moods: darker configurations with deep walnut grid-panelled walls, scallop-topped upholstered headboards, and Murano-style swirl lamps that pull from the Seventies without parody; lighter rooms swap in sage green panelling and burnt-terracotta bouclé chairs alongside warm timber windowsills that frame Rome's ochre rooftops like a postcard you'd actually keep. The restaurant carries the whole thing together — a curved banquette anchoring the room, kentia palms spilling around a dark marble bar set beneath arched wood-framed mirrors, the atmosphere closer to a Milanese brasserie of 1968 than any Roman trattoria. The ivy-draped outdoor terrace, wicker chairs catching the afternoon light against a backdrop of Liberty-era apartment facades, is where the building's unfashionable neighbourhood quietly reveals itself as the point.

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