/ LIBRARY

/ Ibiza

Mediterranean Canvas: How CAN Ibiza Paints a New Identity for the Island

As the 2025 edition closes, the fair’s founding curator Saša Bogojev reflects on four years of building a boutique art platform that resists aesthetic clichés and champions global relevance

/ taormina

The Cloister and the Kitchen: Structuring Sustainability at San Domenico Palace, a Four Seasons Hotel

At the edge of the Ionian Sea, the Four Seasons' Taormina outpost combines ecclesiastical geometry, zero-waste kitchens, and a purpose-driven governance model

/ Capri

Il Capri doesn’t scream: design, raw materials and the absence of interfaces

No televisions, no digital clocks blinking in the dark, no refrigerator whirring at night. Il Capri Reclaims the island’s soul through a sustainable way of being that refuses performance

/ paestum

A Chronicle of Land, Ethics, and Hospitality on the Cilento Coast

From vineyard to buffalo dairy, from off-grid energy to Michelin-starred cuisine and holistic wellness, San Salvatore 1988 is a living model of Cilento’s heritage revitalised for the future

Cala Nova, view from one of the rooms. Bless Hotel Ibiza

East Coast Makeover: BLESS’s Quiet Shift in Ibiza’s Hospitality Grammar

Matteo Mammoli

/ piedmont

Building with the Land: Casa di Langa as a Circular-Economy Prototype

Everything recalls nature: the materials, the rough and imperfect textures, the pervasive presence of living greenery. From architecture to gastronomy, Casa di Langa is conceived as a unified, place-based system

/ Capri

Craft, culture, and conservation: inside Jumeirah Capri Palace

A conversation with Ermanno Zanini, about reviving Jumeirah Capri Palace through the lens of design, contemporary art, and local craft

/ Positano

Villa Treville: architecture, materials and memory on the cliffs of Positano

Villa Treville, once Franco Zeffirelli’s home, preserves its spatial identity through local materials, craft manufacturing techniques, and a structure adapted to the Amalfi cliffside

/ Ibiza

Island Hospitality Moves Within Ibiza’s Layered Identity

Mediterranean roots and contemporary experimentation: a journey through Ibiza with Island Hospitality, exploring three places where hospitality engages with the land and local community

/ Capri

Built to Endure: Capri’s Hidden Hotel and Its Organic Architecture

Neither a landmark nor a brand, Punta Tragara resists uniformity and green storytelling alike – favoring instead an architecture of adaptation, built to endure quietly in the folds of Capri

/ Rome

Pietro Ruffo’s Celestial Rome: Re-mapping the Eternal City Through an Urban Sanctuary

From the hand-engraved zodiac constellations in the lobby to the twenty-metre expanse of azulejos on the roof, Pietro Ruffo transforms art’otel Rome Piazza Sallustio into a narrative that weaves together antiquity, the Anthropocene, and today’s cosmopolitan pulse

/ Paris

Le Meurice: balancing discipline and playfulness—the spirit of french culture

Le Meurice proves that tradition isn’t a museum but an open worksite in perpetual revision—powered by contemporary art, refreshed design, and its backyard jewel, the Tuileries Garden.

/ Fashion

Anna Fendi and the F which stands for Family

99 years of Fendi: from the power of the family as an image, the changes in company management, some words from Anna Fendi and the new opening in via Montenapoleone

/ Perfumery

Amouage, Purpose: Quentin Bisch enhancing the freshness of Omani frankincense

The tree is a visual metaphor for what the perfume expresses on an olfactory level, playing on the contrast and duality between smoky, resinous, warm, and woody notes and other fresher ones

/ Florence

Lorenzo Villoresi: raw materials and inspirations, it all starts with a Pot Pourri

The Blue Lotus discovered in Sri Lanka propels Lorenzo Villoresi into new experiments. A conversation about the Maison, the changing perfume industry, and the value of raw materials

/ Perfumery

Les Exclusifs de Chanel: celebrating the disruption of conventional norms in perfumery

Henri Robert, Jacques Polge, and Olivier Polge, inherited Beaux’s duty to maintain N°5’s production, preserving raw materials while reinventing it. In 2007 Chanel Les Exclusifs was born

Restoring stone and silence: San Corrado di Noto and the rural Sicilian landscape

Nestled in citrus groves and olive trees, the resort maintains historic architecture and landscape, integrating energy-efficient design and local materials in its restoration

/ Tuscany

Torre & Friends: Circularity and Daring Spirit Atop Fondazione Prada

On the ground floor of Palazzo Arnolfini stands Michelin-starred Giglio Restaurant. Lampoon in conversation with the three chefs Benedetto Rullo, Lorenzo Stefanini, Stefano Terigi

/ Switzerland

Krone Säumerei am Inn, Engadin: Craft, Raw Materials and Upcycling

A Sixteenth-century building in Engadin, restored with traditional techniques and raw materials, aims at setting a model for sustainable travel and contemporary environmental awareness

/ Switzerland

Cervo Mountain Resort and the weight of sustainability in a closed alpine system

Between Swiss mountain silence and technical infrastructure, Cervo Mountain Resort explores the limits of sustainability when it becomes architecture, routine, and material language

/ Paris

Brach Paris casts future heritage through circular design in the capital’s greening west

From industrial bones to Bauhaus-meets-Surrealist alchemy, Philippe Starck turns the concrete shell at 1–7 rue Jean-Richepin into a political statement of circular design, complete with rooftop vegetables

/ naturally sourced

Diptyque Re-lights the Neon of the Orphéon

More than half a century later, Diptyque has returned to that ember-lit cradle of its creativity, transforming memories of sax riffs and swirling cigarette ribbons into a limited-edition collection that puts the club’s name, Orphéon, in lights once again

When the Gong Rings: Floraïku Turns Afternoon Tea into Perfume

Matteo Mammoli

/ Switzerland

At 1,650 Metres, LeCrans Sets a High Bar for Low-Impact Hospitality

Renovated by Belgian designer Decarpentrie, LeCrans Hotel applies sustainable practices to energy use, material sourcing, and waste management to reduce environmental footprint

/ naturally sourced

Byredo’s Blanche Absolu: scent as structure

Byredo expands its olfactory language with Blanche Absolu, a fragrance that explores the tension between softness and structure through intensified florals, musk, and texture

/ Florence

From Residence to Riverside Hotel: The Architectural Evolution of Hotel Lungarno

From Picasso and Cocteau to Tuscan gastronomy, Hotel Lungarno integrates cultural heritage and local craftsmanship into the contemporary experience of hospitality

/ Paris

On Paris’s Cité Bergère, Les Suites Cinabre Champions Craft over Flash

By turning a private passage into a living archive of upcycled design, Les Suites Cinabre rewrites Parisian decadence into a narrative of longevity, traceability, and shared memory. Interview with founder Alexandre Chapellier

/ Tuscany

Terme di Saturnia: a natural legacy between wellness and sustainability in Tuscany

Within a landscape shaped by nature and Tuscan historical practices, Saturnia’s sulfur spring offers health benefits while supporting local economies and sustainable tourism