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The Regency, Rome, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel
Rome, Italy · Tribute Portfolio · Accessible Luxury
Before it was a hotel this was the Greek embassy, built off Via Veneto in the boom years when the Dolce Vita was happening a block away. Marriott chose it for the Italian debut of Tribute Portfolio in 2021, and the rebuild leaned hard into the period: sharp geometric pattern, soft neutral shapes, and a bar called Atmosfera at the centre of the ground floor, its curved counter running into a marble-edged communal table. Villa Borghese is a few minutes uphill.
- 41 rooms
- Opened 2021
- Neighborhood: Ludovisi/Via Veneto
- Interiors: Eclettico Design
About The Regency, Rome, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel
- Forty-one rooms over five floors, small enough that the Regency reads more like a private apartment building on a quiet corner than a hotel belonging to the world's largest chain.
- Wire sculptures by Alessandro Di Cola stand in the foyer and the dining room, figures drawn in steel line rather than modelled in mass.
- The Regency was the first hotel Eclettico Design ever built, the hospitality arm of Milan's Lombardini22, which reworked the six-thousand-square-metre property between 2017 and 2020.
History
The building dates from the economic boom of the 1950s and early 1960s and served as the Greek embassy in Rome before it was converted to a hotel. Between 2017 and 2020 Eclettico Design, the hospitality brand of the Milanese practice Lombardini22, rebuilt all six thousand square metres of it: structure, interiors and services, with Marina Ranieri as senior architect on the job and L22 Engineering & Sustainability on the plant. The concept borrowed from the decade the building was born in, with hard graphic lines and geometric furniture patterns set against softer shapes and neutral colour.
The work caught Marriott's attention, and in June 2021 the Regency opened as the first Tribute Portfolio hotel in Italy, with 41 rooms across five floors. The ground floor is organised around the Atmosfera bar, whose lit bottle display and curved counter meet a long marble-edged communal table; wire sculptures by Alessandro Di Cola stand in the foyer and dining room.
The setting
The Regency sits at the corner of Via Romagna and Via Sardegna in the Rione Ludovisi, the grid of late-nineteenth-century blocks laid out on the old Ludovisi estate. Via Veneto is a few minutes on foot, the gardens of Villa Borghese a few minutes more, and the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain are both walkable. It is a residential stretch, so the street goes quiet well before the bars around the corner do.
Amenities
- 82 inch HD TV in meeting room
- Large window with natural light in meeting room
- Staff assistance for meeting and aperitif needs
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