by Alissa Ponchione | Jul 10, 2019 | Projects
Tasked with refreshing the Monkey Island Estate, which sits on an island in the middle of the Thames River not too far from London, New York-based design firm Champalimaud created a look that “speaks to the romantic and lively past” of the property, says partner Jon...
by Alissa Ponchione | May 29, 2019 | Projects
On Singapore’s historic Coleman Street, Grand Park City Hall is a landmarked building firmly rooted in its past with an eye toward the future, much like the cosmopolitan region itself. For Singapore-based Park Hotel Group’s CEO Allen Law, it was the perfect...
by Alissa Ponchione | May 8, 2019 | Projects
Found just outside the city’s Old Town, Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik, built in the late 1890s as the Imperial, attracted personalities like Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, who danced on the hotel’s lawns. Meant “to serve the great and the good on their Riviera tours,...
by Alissa Ponchione | May 7, 2019 | Projects
The immense Lake Garda, in northern Italy, has long been a pull for holiday-makers and the Gardone Riviera, on its western shore, is a particularly storied pocket. Historically attracting artists and poets, it was here that fascist leader Benito Mussolini spent his...
by Alissa Ponchione | May 1, 2019 | Projects
Design is in the details at the recently opened Condominio Monti in Rome. Spread across two neighboring buildings in the city’s historic Monti district, the 33-room boutique property—just steps from the Colosseum —merges color, patterns, and prints with a concept that...
