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Room Mate Collection Giulia Milan
Milan, Italy · Room Mate · Accessible Luxury
Kike Sarasola handed Patricia Urquiola a former bank's offices a few steps off Piazza del Duomo and told her to do the whole thing: the layouts, the furniture, the art on the walls, right down to the cutlery. It opened in March 2016 as Giulia, 85 rooms pitched somewhere between a hotel and an Italian family apartment, with beds and sofas built to measure by Cassina Contract and prints hung along the corridors by photographers and illustrators who are all, by house rule, Milanese. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II begins at the end of the block.
- 85 rooms
- Opened 2016
- Neighborhood: Duomo
- Rooms from 194 sq ft (18 m²)
- Architect: Angus Fiori architects
- Interiors: Patricia Urquiola
About Room Mate Collection Giulia Milan
- Patricia Urquiola was given carte blanche over the entire hotel by founder Kike Sarasola: room layouts, furnishings, the prints on the walls, even the cutlery on the tables.
- The building spent its earlier life as the administrative offices of a bank, gutted across eight floors before reopening as an 85-room hotel in March 2016.
- Cassina Contract made the beds, tables, sofas, desks and bathroom furniture to measure for the conversion rather than buying anything off the shelf.
- Every photographer, artist and illustrator whose work hangs in the corridors and rooms has one thing in common: they are all Milanese.
- Entry-level rooms start at 194 sq ft (18 m²).
History
Room Mate's Milan house sits at Via Silvio Pellico 4, on the corner of the block that runs into Piazza del Duomo, in a building that had spent its working life as the administrative offices of a bank. Kike Sarasola, the Spanish entrepreneur behind Room Mate, spent years looking for a site in the historic centre before settling on this one, and Angus Fiori architects handled the change of use from offices to hotel across eight floors and roughly 6,000 square metres.
The interiors are entirely the work of Patricia Urquiola, who was given complete freedom over the project: she set the room divisions, chose the furniture, picked the prints and even the cutlery. Cassina Contract produced the beds, tables, sofas, desks, mirrors, curtains and bathroom furniture to measure. The 85 rooms run across five categories, from standard up to a penthouse with a terrace, and deliberately borrow the feel of an ordinary Italian home rather than a hotel. The house opened on 15 March 2016, timed for the Salone del Mobile, and later moved into the group's Room Mate Collection tier.
The setting
This is about as central as Milan gets. Via Silvio Pellico runs off Piazza del Duomo, so the cathedral and the glass-roofed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II are both a short walk from the door, with La Scala just beyond the Galleria's far arch and the Duomo metro interchange (M1 and M3) underneath the square. The surrounding grid is the city's shopping heart, and the Quadrilatero della Moda around Via Montenapoleone is roughly ten minutes on foot to the north.
Experiences
- Ticket sales for cultural plans — Ticket sales service to make cultural plans easier.
Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Bar
- Common areas to relax
- Luggage storage
- Ticket sales
- Room service
- Concierge
- Minibar
- Air conditioning
- Heating
- Digital TV
- Safe
- Valet parking (additional cost, Elogistique parking in Via Agnello, 13)
- Adapted services
- Pet-friendly
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