Gabriele Salini transforms historic palazzo into G-Tough lodge in Rome

Mirrored tiles, patina partitions, up to date artwork and modernist Italian furnishings make up this lodge inside a 17th-century palazzo in Rome, which was previously the household dwelling of the proprietor.

Gabriele Salini has remodeled the historic property, which was his household’s dwelling for tons of of years, right into a boutique lodge referred to as G-Tough.

He designed the five-storey lodge within the coronary heart of Rome to mirror his ardour for artwork, historical past and modernist design.

Salini collaborated with Giorgia Cerulli, Benedetta Salini, Vittorio Mango and Emanuele Garosci to create G-Tough lodge with a rough-yet-refined aesthetic carried all through.

The constructing was initially constructed within the 1600s, and the conversion has been designed to showcase its 400-year-old historical past. Unique timber ceilings have been preserved and left uncovered, whereas partitions layered with tons of of years of paint are seen in lots of rooms.

These historic touches are offset with up to date artwork and mid-century furnishings.

Trendy particulars embrace an infinity mirror with crimson lights and industrial cupboards that function kitchenettes. The lodge suite loos, foyer and public breakfast are lined in mirrored tiles in silver and gold.

G-Tough contains ten lodge suites which are every individually adorned, however are specified by comparable trend with frequent furnishings. All of them goal to fuse 1600s class and Italian modernism.

A number of lodge rooms have an area for entertaining with a eating desk, chairs and an outsized couch that may function a spare mattress. A espresso desk, kitchenette, lamps and Smeg fridges spherical out the area.

Every of the suites has a personal bed room and a toilet. Clawfoot bathtubs, floor-to-ceiling home windows that peer out into the suite’s corridor, and two-tone cast-iron washbasins nod to the historic web site with a playful contact.

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The rooms furnishing are full with a wide range of reclaimed modernist and classic items from Sicilian design model Leftover.

On the highest ground of G-Tough are two penthouse suites that may be joined collectively.

The penthouses open out onto rooftop terraces that overlook the cobblestone streets and palazzo buildings of Rome’s Piazza Navona Sq..

A lot of the furnishings used all through the lodge impressed by modernist Italian designers from the 1930s and 1950s, similar to Ico Parisi, Giò Ponti, Paolo Venini, Seguso and Piero Fornasetti.

Items embrace spider-limbed Sputnik chandeliers, parchment beds and bar trolleys.

A handful of different boutique resorts have opened within the Italian metropolis in recent times, together with Condomonio Monti and Rooms of Rome by Jean Nouvel, which can be a renovated palazzo with weathered partitions and up to date furnishings.

Images is by Serena Eller.