The elegance of a dream hotel with all the charm of a timeless city: U-Visionary Venice is the perfect example of how a artwork can fit into the concept of a prestigious interior design.
The dreamlike figures of Giulio Rigoni, the expressive geometries of Luca Brandi and the mysterious friezes of Icaro complete the interiors of the new luxury hotel opened in January 2025 in the Serenissima.
After U-Visionary Rome, designed to offer guests ‘a glimpse of eternity’, U-Visionary Venice is born, which instead opens its view to distant places. Visions of time and space, then, born at the behest of the entrepreneur Fabrizo Pacini: the intention is to take the visitor on a journey within the journey, in which the hotel stay is not just a stopover but an experience in itself.
Above all, the concept of U-Visionary Venice, designed by architect Daniele Chiocchio, revolves around the city’s role as a bridge between East and West. In the rooms we find a skilful fusion of the sober elegance of avant-garde design. Exotic suggestions that recall the voyages of sailing ships laden with spices, the tales of Marco Polo, and that crossroads of peoples and cultures that Venice has always been.
In fact, we find Icaro with his ‘Botales’: photographs of ancient batacchi representing creatures somewhere between the human and the animal world. Borderline figures like Venice itself. With their disturbing blacks and whites, Icaro’s images echo the mysteries and fascination of this city.
Giulio Rigoni also presents figures halfway between two worlds, but in his case we move into the territory between dream and reality. With arabesque architecture on elephant backs, and faces with indecipherable expressions, between Byzantine iconography and Renaissance portraiture.
In a project with such attention to detail, the choice of artwork was a key step: it was necessary to include artworks with their own character, which could be distinctive without being invasive.
In perfect harmony with the interior concept. Hence the choice of artists whose different styles and sensibilities take the observer on an ideal walk from the Venetian calli to the Far East.
Finally, Luca Brandi’s artworks, with their intersecting and interpenetrating lines, evoke the environments of the rising Sun. From the delicate forms of Zen gardens to the geometric shapes of Japanese home interiors. Each work, therefore, is a ‘Touch of Infinity’, to use the words with which U-Visionary Venezia presents itself.
