Rome's luxury hotel scene continues to expand. After the long-awaited opening of a Bulgari hotel at the beginning of June, a few months after that of a Six Senses, the Italian capital recently welcomed the Edition brand. Jointly developed by Marriott and Ian Schrager, the pioneer of the boutique hotel industry, this luxury lifestyle brand has set up shop just off the prestigious Via Veneto, within the walls of a former Italian bank. The building was constructed in the 1940s, and its rationalist style is in keeping with the the sense of pure, contemporary design embodied today by Edition hotelsThe Roman adventure is the sixteenth in the world.
Tailor-made walnut beds, herringbone parquet flooring, works of art, Carrara marble washbasins in the bathrooms: the 91 rooms, including 17 suitesThe rooms are chic and sophisticated. But, as always in lifestyle hotels, it's outside that everything happens, with a host of attractive venues. Starting with the hotel's garden courtyard, which hosts a bar-restaurant in fine weather, and the tables at Anima, the hotel's signature restaurant where chef Paola Colucci revisits traditional Italian family dishes with a modern twist.
More than 400 plants, jasmine tumbling down the façade: this plant world is complemented at the very top of the hotel by another outdoor area, a rooftop with a view overlooking the Pantheon and the Basilica of Sant'Andrea della Valle. A large bar, Mediterranean dishes, a travertine swimming pool surrounded by solid teak beds: the place is perfect for chic lazing around after a hot Roman day. But the beating heart is also, and above all, the lobby, furnished with sofas and coffee tables and housed under spectacular high ceilings. Local and visiting guests will also find two trendy bars on the ground floor: the speakeasy-style Punch Room and the more intimate, mixology-oriented Jade Bar.
If, with its upmarket character, Edition Rome is on a par with its building's financial past, another lifestyle brand - the "Edition Rome" - is on a par with its financial past. Thompson Hotelshas just announced its forthcoming arrival in Rome. With a drop-off point more out of keeping with its top-of-the-range positioning: the historic headquarters of the Italian Communist Partybuilt in the 1930s.
Situated in via delle Botteghe Oscure, close to the Capitol and the Fori Imperiali, this historic site is currently being transformed into a 70-room luxury hotelThe hotel has all the features of a contemporary hotel, with four restaurants, including a rooftop restaurant with a terrace and cocktail bar, a fitness centre and two dedicated meeting rooms for business guests.
Affiliated with Hyatt's Thompson brand, the hotel will be the American group's seventh in Italy and the second in Rome, joining The Tribune Hotel, part of the JdV by Hyatt banner. Scheduled to open in mid-2024, it will also be the second Thompson in Europe, following the one opened last year in Madrid and before the one announced at Vienna in 2025.
As part of the complete renovation of the building, a number of details will be preserved, reminding visitors of the original function of the site, such as the five-pointed star inlaid in the floor of the entrance hall, designed by the sculptor Giò Pomodoro, or the "star of the future" in the floor of the entrance hall, designed by the sculptor Giò Pomodoro. a marble bust of Antonio Gramsci. Seeing all this lifestyle on offer in dialogue with these vestiges of the past, perhaps hotel guests will want to paraphrase the founder of the PCI: " The old world of the hotel industry is dying, but the new one has not taken long to emerge" .
