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<\/p>\nPonti lovers, put this on your must-visit list. Designed in 1961 by iconic Italian architect Gio Ponti, the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, overlooking the Gulf of Naples, is an essential stop for architecture and design afficionados, who come to experience the all-encompassing Ponti aesthetic.<\/p>\n
Born in Milan and trained as an architect, the prolific Ponti designed buildings, interiors, furniture, and lighting, and founded the magazine Domus<\/i>. Ponti\u2019s sensibility is on full view at the Parco dei Principi where he designed every detail of the hotel, from the furniture to the lighting to the 30 different geometric-patterned blue and white tiles used in different combinations throughout the interior. Better still, the whole color scheme is in shades of blue and white.<\/p>\n
The hotel underwent a meticulous three-year renovation from 1999 to 2002, and is now a listed building that captures Ponti\u2019s original vision; for more information, go to Hotel Parco dei Principi.<\/p>\n
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Above: The walls of the bar. are covered with white and blue pebbles in a geometric pattern.<\/p>\n
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Above: Even the light bulbs are blue.<\/p>\n
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Above: The hotel\u2019s interior is in shades of blue and white, reflecting the elements of the sea and sky.<\/p>\n
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Above: The lobby walls are covered in tiles and blue ceramic pebbles.<\/p>\n
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Above: Ponti\u2019s designs draw on the rich history of the Renaissance but with a modern twist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Above: Each of the rooms feature majolica tiles, a type of Italian glazed pottery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Above: The angular pool with Ponti\u2019s elegant concrete diving board.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Above: The private jetty built for guests.<\/p>\n
N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on March 26, 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ponti-liefhebbers, zet dit op uw must-visit lijst. Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, dat in 1961 werd ontworpen door de iconische Italiaanse architect Gio Ponti en uitkijkt over de Golf van Napels, is een essenti\u00eble halte voor architectuur- en designliefhebbers die hier de alomvattende esthetiek van Ponti willen ervaren. Geboren in Milaan en opgeleid als architect, [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}