Detailed Review
A dramatically reborn 15th-century convent with a mere 118 rooms and suites, the intimate Four Seasons is steps from Milan’s couture houses and financial district on the exclusive Via Gesù between Via Montenapoleone and Via della Spiga.
La Veranda, The Hotel’s all-day-dining restaurant, La Veranda seats 68 guests in an elegant and tranquil atmosphere. The restaurant faces the beautiful cloistered courtyard and is a very popular venue among fashionable locals. Celebrity Executive Chef Sergio Mei and his brigade of 28 white hats serve innovative Mediterranean cuisine with an accent on seasonal fresh ingredients. Vegetarians may choose their favourite recipes from a strictly vegetarian menu. A colourful menu, specially designed for children, is available.
Press Quotes
"Housed in a 15th-century Renasissance convent, in the midst of ...all the great names in Fashion". Hip Hotels
"...the Brioni Suite is truly bespoke with linen courtesy of Bellora, toiletries custom-made by Oikos Fragrances and a giant walnut and oak crossword puzzle, with 35 fashion-related clues, covering the study walls." Wallpaper 05
Independent Reviews
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"Four Seasons fabulous - the ultimate in understated luxury, with attentive staff, ultra-chic amenities and a great location."
Usual Four Seasons cocktail of top service, super comfortable beds and understated luxury is here mixed with historic detail and swanky Milanese boutiques to create an unbeatable offering for those who want a classy but fashionable place to stay in the capital of couture.
Four Seasons
By Jamie Dunford Wood
The Four Seasons Milan regularly wins awards, and you can see why. As an architectural conversion, it is a triumph - a sensitive and clever refashioning of a 15thC monastery. The location is surprising - down a quiet side street off the fashionable Monte Napoleone, ideal for fashionistas, many of whom mill about the low lobby with clustes of Prada bags. The tone, in typical Four Seasons style, is beige and marble, with the usual extravagant flower arrangements. The architect has retained the cloisters, but glassed them in, with a/c units disguised in wall mounted walnut veneered consoles. In the centre is a lovely, small, sunken garden area, around which are arranged a number of underground restaurants, cleverly lit with natural light from a central light well. Upstairs, via a mosaic-floored elevator, most of the 118 rooms are large and very light, most with two windows, and the deluxes face the central garden. Colourways are cream and pale yellow, with pale wood and Fortuny fabrics, and darker ’pear and sycamore’ headboards and furniture. The standard shape is long and rectangular, sofas at one end, the bed at the other, a desk in the middle between the two windows. Superiors are as large, though not always quite as light. There is no pool, but a gym and fitness centre, and extensive business and meeting facilities. The overall tone is discreet - not as heavenly perhaps, despite the cloisters, as the George V in Paris, with none of the same excitement, but cool, restrained and sophisticated.
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