Project Breakdown: The Manner from Standard International

Clad in bespoke green tiles, the building evokes Milan’s golden era of design. Set back from the street, “it stops you in your tracks,” says Verena Haller, Standard International’s chief design officer. “We moved the terraces higher up and created this beautiful canopy.”

As Hannes Peer’s first hotel project, the Manner reflects his graceful, residential sensibility. Two doors—one glass, the other tufted leather—open to the vestibule where “art is literally integrated into the architecture. The flooring is artwork itself. It’s so grand,” says Peer.

Among the works are Nicholas Shurey’s totems and a ceramic piece by Giovanni de Francesco, which takes inspiration from Lucio Fontana’s early biomorphic, phosphorescent clay and ceramic works from the 1930s and ’40s.