PHOTO ESSAY
Multicolour backlighting gives the perfectly white, shiny reception desk a warm feel. The porthole is a design metaphor of a window providing a glimpse into a new world.
BUBBLING HOT J
ust like champagne bubbles rising to the top of a glass, the “melted metal drops” in the Atomic Spa Suisse in Milan, Italy, are attached to the walls
and ceilings sparsely at the entrance and get denser the further you venture. Tis is just one feature of the 600sq m (6,458sq ſt) spa that helped it to clinch Interior Design mag- azine’s 2010 Best of Year Beauty, Spa, Fitness title – ahead of stiff competition such as the spa at the W Hotel, Doha, the Four Seasons
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1,200 metallic, shimmering bubbles have helped to create the award-winning design of Simone Micheli’s Atomic Spa Suisse in Italy
Seychelles and Revel Spa in San Francisco. Only opened for just over a year, it has also claimed the Annual Club Space Award as part of the Modern Decoration International Media Prize in China. Te accolades are quite fitting for a spa that resides in Boscolo Exe- dra – an eclectic, ultra-modern hotel – in the very heart the fashion capital of Milan. Te man responsible for Atomic Spa Suisse
is Italian architect Simone Micheli, whose brief from Angelo Boscolo – owner of the
Boscolo Hotel chain – was to “create a work capable of touching emotions and involving people… and of stimulating mind and body perceptions”. Inspired by Belgian-Flemish Art Nouveau designer Henry Van de Velde and Walter Gropius, one of the masters of the modern architecture movement, Micheli has created a dream-like environment. Te sculpted white columns, walls and ceiling in the centre of the spa are reminiscent of big sin- uous trees. Here guests discover a relaxation
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