Guests and locals alike are now flocking to the home’s Irene Forte Medical spa and 2 dining establishments, helmed by chef Fulvio Pierangelini. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea are served in the greenhouse-like, glass-domed Cafe Floretta. Later, relaxing into one the luxurious banquettes at Spiga, a cooking love letter to local ingredients, set in a cocoon of leather paneling. And after that there’s an aperitivo or nightcap waiting at the Carlton Bar, a flashing watering hole crowned by a constellation of ceiling lights. It will, thus much of the hotel, leave a twinkle in your eye. — Sam Cochran
Final Touch
A Designer’s Cocktail-Hour Idea Ends up being a Set of Joyful, Milk-Painted Tables Influenced by Shaker Restraint and Youth Building Blocks
It began with a mixed drink. “I ‘d been indicating to develop a martini table,” recalls the decorator turned shopkeeper Will Cooper, founder of the lifestyle brand William White. Then one recent night, after a check out to the Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts– home to easy furniture types slicked in primary colors– he had an epiphany. “I wished to minimize my designs to one of the most basic, childish shapes, like the wood obstructs I matured with.” Get in the ABCD tables, a lively quartet bearing different geometries. Each petite piece is crafted of milk-painted poplar (the exact same surface area used for the Mona Lisa, Cooper notes) and created to hold a drink, book, or treat. All function a stainless-steel tube for a candle light or flower stem. Cooper deems the series equivalent parts friendly and helpful, stating, “They’re light, movable, and rooted in restraint.” — H.M.
Photography by Fujio Emura. Styling by Gözde Eker. Produced by Madeline O’Malley.
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