HOSPITALITY Armani
Armani Hotels & Resorts was estab- lished in 2005 under an agreement between Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani and property devel- oper Emaar Properties. The fi rst hotel, the Armani Hotel
Dubai, opened in the world’s tall- est building, the Burj Khalifa, in April 2010. The 160 room hotel occupies 10 levels of the 160 storey build- ing, and features seven restaurants and lounges including a Japanese, an Indian and an Italian restaurant, as well as an Armani spa. For those who want to live the
Armani lifestyle full time, 144 luxury residential apartments sit alongside the hotel, all designed by Giorgio Armani and all kitted out with furnish- ings and products from the Armani/ Casa home furnishings range. The second Armani hotel opened in the designer’s home town of Milan
For those who want to live the Armani lifestyle full time, luxury apartments sit next to the hotel
Bulgari
In 2001, Italian jeweller Bulgari teamed up with Luxury Group (the lux- ury division of Marriott International) to launch Bulgari Hotels & Resorts. The fi rst Bulgari Hotel opened in Milan in 2004, in a renovated 18th cen- tury Milanese palazzo. It has 58 rooms and suites, an Italian restaurant, a bar, a lounge and a private garden. It also features a fi tness centre and the Bulgari Hotel Milan Spa offering ESPA treatments, with fi ve treatment rooms, a gold-tiled pool and a hammam. This was followed in 2006 by the Bulgari Resort in Bali, which features 59 villas, two restaurants, a bar, a Bulgari Spa, a cliff edge pool, a fi tness centre and a Bulgari store. French luxury giant LVMH acquired Bulgari in 2011, making it the owner of Bulgari Hotels & Resorts. In 2012, the Bulgari Hotel opened in London, joining the ranks of London’s most
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Giorgio Armani chose his home town of Milan for the opening of the second Armani Hotel
in November 2011. The Armani Hotel Milano has 95 rooms and an Armani/ Ristorante on the seventh fl oor, offer- ing views across the city. It also features an Armani/Nobu restaurant, an Armani/Lounge and an Armani/Spa with six treatment rooms, a couples’ suite, a fi tness room and a pool. Back in 2010, Emaar announced that it was planning to build a third Armani Hotel, but when contacted, a spokesperson said they couldn’t com- ment on the expansion of the brand.
The Bulgari Resort in Bali has its own private beach
expensive fi ve star hotels. It features 85 rooms and suites, a bar, a restau- rant and a lounge, a private screening room, a ballroom and a business cen- tre. It also features the 2,000 sq m, two-storey Bulgari Spa with 11 treat- ment rooms, a private spa suite for two and a 25m mosaic tiled pool.
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A 120 room hotel is scheduled to open in Shanghai in 2015, on the top 12 fl oors of a 40 storey build- ing designed by Foster+Partners. It will feature a 2,000sq m spa with an indoor swimming pool and is part of an ageement between Bulgari and Chinese developer the OCT Group.
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