hospitality. Recently opened in Rome’s Piazza di San Marcello, just a stone’s throw from the Trevi fountain, the latest Six Senses hotel is a feast for the eyes. Designed by Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola, the luxurious five-star property has taken up residence in the historic fresco-laden Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini, built in the 18th century in the Rococo style. In designing the hotel, Urquiola drew from Rome’s landmark architecture, lining the walls with creamy travertine stone and white marble, similar to the ancient monuments that pepper the eternal city.
In the rooms, Urquiola mixed playful contemporary furnishings with rich natural materials in colours drawn from the city’s vernacular architecture: warm tones like muted red, burnt orange and dusty brown, which recall the terracotta-roofed stuccoed buildings that line its millennia-old cobblestone streets. She brought in touches of black to add a sense of weight to the bathroom’s otherwise softly neutral palette. For instance, as a border around the fluted glass shower stall and the bathroom mirror, which both match the Agape Memory taps installed above the sink and in the shower. Urquiola also sought Agape products for the fixtures, specifically the Spoon XL bathtub, designed by Benedini associati, and the Lariana washbasins, which she designed in collaboration with the brand for the Il Sereno Hotel in Lake Como.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1961. Lives and works in Milan. She attended the School of Architecture of Madrid Polytechnic and Milan Polytechnic, where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni. From 1990 to 1992 she was assistant lecturer to both Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli in Milan and Paris.
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