Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin As much as I love traveling for art, sometimes the best art experience just happens to be where I am staying. Enter a trio of Italian hotels that feel like private galleries and immersive contemporary art experiences. Welcome to the ultimate art lover’s escape perfect for an art escape and where you’ll want to wind down after the Biennale and Salone del Mobile craze.
Casa Maria Luigia Casa Maria Luigia If you follow my Instagram, you know that every year I make a pilgrimage to Casa Maria Luigia, the exquisite 12-room bed and breakfast created by chef Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore in the Modena countryside. You could call it a habit, but there’s a reason I keep coming back, and it’s not just what you’d expect. Casa Maria Luigia is, hands down, a gastronomic paradise and foodie destination.
Bottura’s visionary culinary mastery is on full display, from Francescana at Casa Maria Luigia’s “greatest hits” of his three-Michelin-star Osteria Francescana to the innovative Al Gatto Verde, where Michelin-starred cuisine merges with green-star sustainability, under the guidance of Jess Rosval. Her breakfast is probably the most delicious in Italy- both a tribute and flair on the very best that Modena offers. But what truly keeps me returning year after year is the art.
Ai Wei Wei in the living room at Casa Maria Luigia. For more than three decades, Gilmore and Bottura have been collecting works by artists from all .