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Below, Cuna bath tub
by Antonio Lupi, design
by Carlo Colombo.
Right, Monolito series of
washbasins, Regia. Shower
Penisola, Antonio Lupi.
rial Rome. Also among today’s most prestigious establishments is
the Younique, designed by Matteo Nunziati, a 2,000 sq m luxury
wellbeing centre only a hundred metres from Milan Cathedral yet
with an almost private atmosphere.
While the architect Simone Micheli creates almost dreamlike environments,
bringing a strong charge of technological and creative
innovation to his projects, where perception of space is lost
among lighting displays and fl uctuating confi nes. Just a few examples
are the spa of Livigno (among the mountains of Sondrio)
and the Wellbeing-spas of the Exedra Hotel-Boscolo Group of Milan,
Nice and Budapest.
If it is true that Italian project makers are able to achieve a balance
between innovation and spa traditions, it is also true that this
design tradition has been kept alive in our country by companies’
and designers’ ongoing research and by the various dedicated
trade fair exhibitions. The salon of Host, in Milan, with 1,445 exhibitors
from 40 countries and 125,000 operators attending its
most recent edition, 33,000 of them foreigners from 141 countries,
dedicates an entire sector, Hotel&Spa Emotion, to wellbeing.
On display here were the most innovatory products for creating
prestigious wellbeing spaces. While high design sanitary fi xtures
in ceramics and complete shower-washbasin-fi tness area project
solutions create the new wellbeing-rooms of the most exclusive
hotels. Where wellbeing is a global concept.
The fantastic dimension
of the Spa
by Paola Leone
It could be described as the three-dimensional
manifesto of the marriage between
architecture, the sensory and wellbeing,
mingling within an ancestral atmosphere: it
is the wellbeing centre of the Exedra Nice
Hotel in Nice, belonging to Boscolo Hotels and
designed by the architect Simone Micheli. A
place in which to celebrate the relationship
between man, constructed space and
relaxation, it develops in a fantastic dimension.
Starting from the lounge zone, the vertical
spaces are covered fl uidly with moulded,
dynamic surfaces, fi nished with plaster and
glossy white resin. Emerging from them are
the round glass windows of the multimedia
monitors. Led lighting fl ows from the hollow
ceilings, transforming the simple boxlike room
into a scenic display rich in emotions. The
reception zone is furnished with a fl uidlyshaped
desk, varnished glossy white, and rear-
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