Detailed Review
The Salvatore Ferragamo fashion group has launched an entirely new urban hotel experience. You are the protagonist. The scenery, a constantly alternating art exhibit. Contemporary, Ethnic, Photographic - art in all its forms.
Plop down on the pouf. Contemplate the artworks. Dislike them, adore them. That's the point.
Snuggle up in the Library to a book from our collection of over 400 volumes. Michelangelo to Mario Testino. Shakespeare to Danielle Steel.
Belly up to our sleek Lounge Bar and enjoy a cool grappa while rubbing shoulders with the Florentine elite.
Challenge the staff. Ask them everything, they know the answer. Ask them for anything, they will find a way.
Slip up to your room and chill. Leather headboards, wool bed shawls, 200 thread-count sheets, Bulgari Bath products. Michelangelo can wait.
Gallery Hotel Art, a new genre of art awaits you.
Press Quotes
“ a happy marriage between traditional Florentine elegance and the cutting-edge contemporary.” Rise Magazine 06
Independent Reviews
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"Another Ferragamo design hotel with a great location near the Ponte Veccuio, contemporary, muted interiors and original artwork."
Gallery Hotel Art
By Jamie Dunford Wood
Japanese minimalism may sound odd in the middle of medieval Florence, but in these cramped Florentine town palazzos it works extremely well. The idea in this hotel is to have a constantly changing art exhibition on the ground floor, a library of art books, and fusion cooking (thai/Japanese), with minimalist dcor in beige and cream colour tones, using grey stone and dark wood. The elevators and corridors are tiny, which helps the rooms themselves feel generous, cool havens from the heat of the street outside. Floors are of dark stained African wood, bedheads of Florentine leather, doors thick and chunky and painted in cream. The art theme continues, with monochrome prints of architectural detail on the walls. You feel that if Brunelleschi had been a hotel designer, and alive today, this is what he would have come up with, as the grey and cream remind you of the Pazzi Chapel. Bathrooms are cool and modern, with free standing sinks (two in the deluxe rooms). At the top of the hotel, the penthouse has a terrace where you can sleep out at night under the stars - now that is what we call romantic. There are also several duplexes and ten junior suites with little sitting areas. The hotel is perfectly positioned, a few steps from the Piazza Republica on one side and the Ponte Vecchio on the other, and just far enough off the main drag to make it relatively quiet at night. Open just two years, the Gallery Art is owned by Ferragamo.
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Client Reviews
Our favourite hotel on the trip - probably helped
Posted by Katie Langley on 2004-05-14.
Gallery Art in Florence which we absolutely loved
Posted by Katie Stirling on 2005-05-24.
We both enjoied this modern great location of a
Ratings
- Comfort:
(5/5) - Character:
(3/5) - Location: (5/5)
Posted by Mr. simon wood on 2006-03-29.
