Top 8 Design Hotels in Milan, where to stay the next time you come to the city to immediately enter the creative mood meneghino. In addition to fashion, Milan is also the Italian design capital. And not only in the days of the Salone del Mobile. In the rest of the year you can find abundant traces of coolness everywhere, but especially in hotels.
It is certainly not a surprise, in fact, that there is an exaggerated concentration of design hotels in Milan, where there is a continuous avenue of models, celebs and beautiful people more or less incognito.
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8 design hotels in Milan
1. Chateau Monfort
An almost dreamy design that draws on the world of fairy tales and work, Chateau Monfort is a lovely place where dream and reality meet thanks to the retro-chic style that reigns within this Relais & Châteaux. The rooms are inspired by ancient fairy tales (from Cinderella to the Bird of Fire), or they tell the classic work (such as La Traviata, Turandot and Madama Butterfly).
A romantic and fairytale atmosphere can also be found in the Lounge Bar Mezzanotte by Venissa or in the SPA Amore & Psiche; while the Cella di Bacco is not a simple winery but a scenario where you can experience a unique tasting experience with a careful selection of the best Italian wines.
2. Mandarin Oriental Milan
The Mandarin Oriental Milan develops within four elegant 18th century buildings completely renovated located in Andegari street, the heart of Milan fashion district. This 5-star design hotel is the right mix of oriental style and contemporary design.
Design lovers will not miss the opportunity to stay in one of the special suites dedicated to two famous Lombard artists: the Milan Suite, a tribute to Piero Fornasetti, furnished with original items; and the Premier Suite, tribute to Milanese rationalism and architect Gio Ponti whose minimalist style based on the "reduction of the sign", inspired a generation of artists from the 1950s to today.
The hotel offers a total of 104 rooms including 34 suites and junior suites and an eclectic choice of contemporary cuisine and cocktails, thanks to Mandarin Bar & Bistrot and fine-dining restaurant Seta, awarded with 2** Michelin, which welcomes guests outside the hotel in its elegant outdoor space in the heart of Milan, on which it overlooks through large windows the kitchen exposed to the restaurant, thus making it possible an experience in the experience.
Both restaurants are supervised byExecutive Chef Antonio Guide and have access to two beautiful outdoor courtyards, offering the possibility to consume meals outdoors. The 900-square-metre spa includes six treatment cabins, a state-of-the-art beauty salon, a hair salon, a fitness center and an indoor pool.
3. Armani Hotel Milan
Born after the success of the Armani Hotel Dubai, located in Burj Khalifa, the highest building in the world, the Armani Hotel Milano is located in the heart of the city, inside the extraordinary Palazzo in Via Manzoni 31, originally designed by Enrico A . Griffini and completed in 1937 in the rationalist style of the time.
Here. Giorgio Armani has created a world of harmony and privacy, with uncompromising attention to the needs of guests. Luxury, calm and beauty are encouraged in Armani style, giving a new aesthetic excellence to the concept of comfort.
On the seventh floor of the Armani/Hotel Milano, at the Armani/Ristorante you can enjoy the cuisine ofExecutive Chef Francesco Mascheroni. Menu based on simple and complex dishes at the same time, which respect the seasonality of the raw material and give life to a recognizable and contemporary style of cuisine in the great classics, such as Gambero Rosso di Mazara, passion fruit, carrots, ginger, warm butter and the Spaghetto di Gragnano, cauliflower, green apple, sea urchins, curry oil.
For Sunday lunch, the chef offers a menu dedicated to Italian tradition, with an eye on Lombard cuisine, which consists of dishes of land, sea and vegetables, to be shared at the table.
4. Aethos Milan
Vintage atmosphere lovers? TheAethos Milan It's the perfect place. This boutique design hotel in Milan located in the heart of the Navigli fascinates with its lure style enriched by period details such as trunks and hats, sports trophies, ancient objects of daily use reverted with garb to furnishing accessories.
The 28 suites of the hotel are characterized by a different theme and careful attention to detail.
5. Nyx Hotel
Near the Central Station, crossroads of commuters and travelers, the Nyx Hotel with its 12 floors of street art and design within the rationalist building of Piazza IV Novembre, known as the "former Philips Palace", is a sophisticated cell of decompression thanks to an offer of unusual urban experiences.
The Nyx Hotel, whose name is inspired by the Greek goddess of the night, is in fact the first hotel-museum that houses inside it works of street art made by 13 artists, or writers, Italians of international fame. The interior, studied in detail, creates a stimulating atmosphere in which art, music and design blend.
Definitely eclectic also the gastronomic proposal of restaurant Clash inspired by street food, yes, but with a lot of attention to subjects, originality of the proposal, fulfillment of the view... as well as the increasingly urban veg style: all packaged, on request, in picnic baskets with which to go to the discovery of the city in the beautiful season.
6. Enterprise Hotel
Efficiency, innovation and minimal furnishings. Although it is not in a very central position, the Enterprise Hotel represents the creative and innovative spirit of Milan, a symbol of the best combination of modern design and tradition.
The hotel maintains the character and charm of the past, being the fruit of a wise and sought-after industrial recovery, combined with contemporary design elements with orientating echoes.
From its opening Enterprise Hotel carries out an ambitious project of interior design and enhancement of Made in Italy, declined at the beginning of 2022 with the opening of 8 new Nesting Rooms realized in collaboration with Moroso.
Designed to envelop guests in a warm embrace and equipped with all the comforts of an apartment, they are a new accommodation solution that meets the increasing demands of staycation or those who travel for pleasure putting in the first place comfort, safety and privacy.
The Nesting are located inside two houses of railing, overlooking a classic Milan court. The color is the absolute protagonist of the interior design project, as fundamental as the choice of materials, fabrics and upholstered to amplify the feeling of being inside an enveloping, safe and quiet nest in the heart of the metropolis.
The guests of the suites have access to all the services of the hotel, designed to allow guests to combine work effortlessly remotely and free time: an innovative Congress Centre equipped with the only Immersive Room® in hotel in Italy, the panoramic spa The Baths of Kyoto, a fitness center and temptations for the palate of Sophia’s Restaurant, the Garden Bar and the Wine Shop.
7. Room Mate Giulia
A jewel just a stone's throw from Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and the Fashion Quadrilatero, Room Mate Giulia is a designer boutique hotel with 85 rooms with a vintage touch and strong contrasting elements to offer guests a familiar atmosphere.
Moreover, what can be expected from a hotel that carries the signature of the architect-star Patricia Urquiola? No doubt, pure design and innovation. Room Mate Giulia combines history (the building that houses it dates back to the 19th century) and contemporaneity (of the furnishings).
Traditional materials, soft colors in shades of pink, green and blue and design furniture are the main features of a unique space. Stilosis environments in which mix minimal influences and elements of the meneghina tradition, walls with "poor" tones and pop details, geometric patterns and unexpected artsy contaminations. The place to be for architecture and furniture lovers.
8. Hotel Viu Milan
Among the latest arrivals of design hotels in Milan, the Hotel Viu Milan is making itself wide in the panorama of design hotels in Milan.
A stone's throw from Isola, the new district of Fuorisalone, the hotel is an elegant and metropolitan building with a glass facade framed by rich vegetation, destined to become a real vertical garden.
Inside, custom furniture made characterized by a palette of delicate colors and completed by an accurate selection of works of art. 
