Seven centuries of Venetian Gothic stonework meet the present on the Riva degli Schiavoni, where Hotel Gabrielli Venezia — Starhotels Collezione opened in 2025 after a thorough restoration of a 14th-century palazzo spanning 6,500 square metres. Milanese designer Andrea Auletta treated the building's surviving fabric as the primary material: original Quadrifora windows with their pointed trefoil tracery were preserved in place, 16th-century dark-timbered beamed ceilings kept overhead, and approximately 700 Murano glass chandeliers and sconces restored across the 66 rooms and suites. The result is an interior that feels genuinely inhabited by its own history — the blown-glass fittings are not decorative additions but structural parts of the building's identity, Venetian craft deployed at a scale that few properties of any age can claim. Auletta's new work layers confidently over this inherited foundation. The restaurant shown in the images lines its walls in veined rose marble, sets deep forest-green velvet banquettes with gold-trimmed frames against the stone, and suspends amber-and-teal Murano chandeliers above the room in a colour argument that is lush without becoming overwrought. Guest rooms carry a quieter note: white-painted arched headboards, fringed grey velvet sofas on ivory rugs, gold bamboo side tables, and framed Murano chandelier drawings hung as art — a detail that ties the decorative programme back to the building's most distinctive craft tradition. Above everything, the new sixth-floor rooftop terrace frames the Bacino di San Marco at dusk, the Salute and the Campanile floating on the horizon across the water.