When 4 Seasons hospitality firm assumed administration of the Gruppo Statuto property in 2020, San Domenico underwent a multimillion greenback makeover spearheaded by Italian ladies. Architect Valentina Pisani oversaw your complete renovation, including a contemporary take to interiors with smoked mirrors, bronze particulars, and impartial tones with splashes of shade within the public areas (like coral pink in the principle corridor), and basic up to date furnishings within the visitor rooms with marble baths. Historic artwork restoration specialist Rosaria Catania Cucchiara managed an all-female crew that rehabilitated museum-quality paintings—medieval work, frescos, and statues—in addition to interval architectural particulars, akin to columns, arcades, and vaulted ceilings. (Their work required the approval of the native council.) Up to date paintings can be on show, together with Georgian artist Sophie Koe’s set up produced from Mount Etna ash.
Italian panorama architect Marco Bay created lush palm tree crammed areas in gardens the place monks as soon as cultivated medicinal vegetation. He additionally added a citrus grove—with 40 tree varieties that produce lemons, mandarins, grapefruits, and mini oranges—and sculptural succulents in terracotta vases within the entrance courtyard and a stone flooring in certainly one of two historical cloistered courtyards the place a 14th-century stone effectively is the point of interest. For the lodge’s new elevated 69-foot infinity swimming pool, Bay selected tiles in shades of blue and inexperienced to match sea and sky.