Just a stone’s throw from Stazione Centrale, the HD8 Hotel Milano features innovative elements that reflect the contemporary face of Milan’s urban landscape, including a panoramic breakfast room designed for both elegance and functionality. The result of a recent interior restyling by Milanese studio SA Architecture – Marco Guido Savorelli and Daniela Bernabei – the hotel is a perfect fusion of four-star luxury and functionality that responds to the needs of its business gusts.
Representing an area of some 3000 square meters, the interiors underwent a complete restyling. The biggest challenge facing the design team was to create a feeling of spaciousness in the guestrooms and bathrooms. For all 80 rooms on the HD8’s eleven floors, the architects chose Marazzi ceramic finishes, including the Crogiolo Lume and Grande Concrete Look collections.
A member of the Crogiolo product family, which reproduces the look and feel of handcrafted ceramics, Lume brings a contemporary edge to interiors with its irregular, highly polished surface. The design team used Lume in the bathrooms and for large sections of the guestroom walls. The product creates vibrant spaces with a sophisticated interplay of light,in this case accentuated by the selected palette of Black, Blue, and Greige. These shades complement the beige and bronze details of the rooms, as well as the colors of the other Marazzi finishes and flooring.
The Grande Concrete Look collection in the Mud shade, which reflects the expressive power of concrete but with an added touch of elegance, was used for the surface finishes, while the floor is tiled with a custom product. With its surface nuances combined with a metropolitan flavor, Grande Concrete Look in particular gives the rooms a character and versatility.
A distinctive feature of the HD8 is its top-floor breakfast room. With panoramic glazing, it offers unique views of the city, in particular of the striking entrance to Stazione Centrale. For this large room, SA Architecture chose Lumestoneware tiles in Black for the walls and load-bearing columns.
“The HD8 project involved a complete restyling of a Milanese hotel near Stazione Centrale – in other words, a key area for the hospitality industry,” said the architects. “For the project, we created an elegant and functional interior design with stylistic inputs from Italy’s rationalist architecture of the 1920s and ’30s.” This approach made the Marazzi collections ideal. “The extensive use of Marazzi ceramics made it possible to create surfaces with quality materials and colors that defined the design of the rooms,” concluded Marco Guido Savorelli. “The products were crucial in creating elegant interiors and, in particular, making it possible to diversify colors and materials in almost every room.”
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Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: SA Architecture
Supplier: Marazzi
Photography by Andrea Martiradonna, courtesy of Marazzi