Featured story / The House
Why Eighteen Rooms
On the particular pleasure of a hotel that still feels like a house.
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Notes from the palazzo
Stories, slowly told.
The Aurelia journal
A closer kind of travel.
Ideas behind the house, mornings in the kitchen, and small discoveries beyond the water door. Six original stories from an imagined Venetian residence.
What the Restoration Preserved
Stone, plaster and the traces that make a room feel lived in.
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Before Dawn at the Rialto Market
An imagined morning with Riva’s kitchen, before the first coffee is poured.
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The Unhurried Bath
Water, warmth and the small luxury of leaving a little time around everything.
Read storySeven Venetian Discoveries
A small collection of ways to look more closely at an imagined Venetian day.
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Winter on the Water
The quieter season, imagined through fog, warm rooms and long evenings.
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