Falkensteiner Hotel&Spa

Design: MATTEO THUN & PARTNERS Photo: WALTER LUTTENBERGER The Falkensteiner Hotel&Spa Jesolo, with its shapes emphasised by long horizontal lines and elements of nautical inspiration, features the Art Deco architectural style en vogue in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Designed in 2007 by American architect Richard Meier, this five-star hotel is situated in the splendid town of Jesolo, a holiday resort that soaks up the magical ambience of nearby Venice. The structure, with its elegant and contemporary lines, is part of a wider architectural complex that composes other buildings used predominately for residential purposes. Richard Meier, with a studio in New York since 1963, has received numerous prizes and acknowledgements, including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, and is one of the most celebrated architects of the modern era. The hotel interiors were designed by renowned interior design studio Matteo Thun & Partners. The project is characterised by particular attention being paid to the relationship between the construed ambient and the surrounding context and use of natural materials. Throughout the project, a simple style and sophisticated harmony created by audacious colour combinations, shades and colour effects prevails. The walls of the modern and luxurious bathrooms at the Falkensteiner Hotel&Spa (with 108 rooms and suites, a spa and 18 apartments) have been designed using Ceramica Vogue Italian tiles. Solid coloured tiles were used, chosen from the vast colour chart, in shades of Ghiaccio and Cedro with a matte satin finish from the Interni collection. The white and yellow glazed stoneware tiles are alternated in extravagant stripes that recall Pop Art style wallpaper.