JW Marriott to Open Unique Luxury Private Island Resort in Venice. The new private island resort in Venice to boast largest spa in the city. JW Marriott luxury hospitality chain announced plans to open its first Italian hotel in Venice and first resort in Europe in March 2015. The new luxury property aims to bring … Read more
For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the world’s most reputable museums for 20th Century European and American art, extends its collection by offering “For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism“. This summer exhibition housed in its founder’s former home on … Read more
In the early 18th century, Venice, a city of some 160,000 inhabitants, boasted seven full-time opera houses. John Julius Norwich looks at the Italian city’s great cultural history
Teatrino at Palazzo Grassi by Tadao Ando. A contemporary arts centre inside an eighteenth-century palace in Venice. After the restoration of Palazzo Grassi in 2006, followed by that of Punta della Dogana in 2009, the rehabilitation of the Teatrino in 2013 marks the third step of French luxury goods magnate François Pinault’s cultural project … Read more
The Luxury Collection unveiled House of Waris RARE at The Gritti Palace, Venice – a collection of handcrafted treasures from around the world curated by a modern day Marco Polo, Waris Ahluwalia. The exclusive collection will be brought to life in the Explorer’s Library at The Gritti Palace, which reopened its legendary doors in … Read more
“Ducale” or the Palazzo Ducale, the famed Doge’s Palace, is one of the symbols of Venice and a masterpiece of the Venetian Gothic design. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the Republic of Venice, opening as a museum in 1923. Located in Piazza San Marco, … Read more