This New Ferragamo-Owned Milan Hotel Is Set to Be a Fashion Week Favorite

Below the rubric of their resort group, the Lungarno Assortment, the Ferragamo household has spent practically three a long time increasing their providing to seven properties—however the five-star Portrait accommodations function the jewels of their crown. (The primary, Portrait Roma, opened in 2006, and was adopted by the Portrait Firenze, which sits in an unparalleled location adjoining to the Ponte Vecchio, in 2014.) With the Portrait Milano, nonetheless, the group is unveiling their most formidable challenge but—and never solely due to its sprawl of 73 rooms and suites, which dwarf the extra bijou proportions of their earlier properties. 

Conveniently located between the grand boulevard of the Corso Venezia and town’s buying mecca, the piazza on the middle was lately christened a public sq. by the mayor of town, and can function a thoroughfare of types. And for anybody who does discover themselves wandering via, they’ll have loads to maintain them occupied: the bottom ground of the property now hosts an offshoot of Antonia, the cult Milan style boutique, which shares manufacturers together with Loewe and Sacai; an outpost of the glitzy restaurant chain Beefbar; and the flagship retailer for SO-LE Studio, the jewellery model launched by Ferragamo scion Maria Sole Ferragamo in 2019. 

Then, there’s the culinary program from the resort itself, which facilities across the restaurant 10_11, led by the 32-year-old chef Alberto Quadrio and overlooking the resort’s lush (and surprisingly massive, for central Milan at the least) gardens. Providing elevated riffs on Piedmontese staples—assume a carefully organized vitello tonnato, or baked pumpkin with a taleggio cheese fondue served contained in the gourd—the house balances plush, Italian modernist-inflected interiors with a livelier ambiance after darkish.