Maison Moschino

Class: Deluxe

Style: Cutting edge

Rooms: 65

In 1840, a railway station was built in the neoclassical style on Milan’s Viale Monte Grappa to feed the newly forming Milan-Monza route. In 2010, that railway station re-opens its doors as Maison Moschino. Creatively spearheaded by the Moschino design team in collaboration with its Creative Director Rossella Jardini, the building’s original façade was meticulously restored to remain faithful to the intended structure. But the team has taken every liberty with the interior, entirely restructuring it into an elegant and absolutely contemporary embodiment of the world in which our nocturnal fantasies dwell. The building is divided into four floors comprised of 63 guestrooms and 2 junior suites, as well as a bar, restaurant, spa and gym. Upon entering Maison Moschino, guests are immediately met by the Moschino staple lampshade dress, this time actually acting as a lamp. The interplay between architecture and fashion resonates deeply, and is visible throughout the exquisite hotel that offers guests the opportunity to experience an alternative life, one fabricated to offer a world built from the imagination delving into surrealism. “The common thread connecting the rooms is a fairy tale theme because to sleep is perchance to dream, and dreams are fairy tales that we are allowed to experience first hand, the fables of a fantasy world that we have created...” describes the hotel’s design team. It is in the guestrooms, the place where guests lay their heads to rest, and these fantasies are originally born, where the theme is most elaborately illustrated. In one room, rose petals fall lightly from the chandelier while others cover the bed. In another, a ballgown drapes down from the bedboard to cover the entire bed so it feels as though one really is sleeping inside the hem of a gown. And further on to the forest room, ‘the luxury storeroom’ and the junior suites are located in the second floor and are characterised by wide spaces and a spacious mezzanine. Those rooms are inspired by Alice in Wonderland; Maison Moschino continues to surprise guests, offering them soothing respite from the bustling streets of Milan, with the added element of an exciting unpredictability. The Clandestino Restaurant and the hotel’s bar are more directly inspired by the illustrious fashion house’s designs. With more lamps made of the beautiful and curvaceous silhouettes of their dresses, small lights peppering the ceilings to look like precious clouds and a bar light created from a stiletto boot, these sets are where the Moschino design team really flexes its style muscles.