The extreme industrial design of this boutique hotel contrasts nicely with its super-central location next to the Duomo. Popular with hip creatives, the unique rooms are filled with state of the art technology...
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Price: from EUR 246
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Your grandmother would probably dismiss the Straf as a building site. But the Straf is a four-star design hotel, no less, and a pioneer of the rather extreme ‘unfinished industrial’ look, with distressed cement walls, scratched mirrors, and burnished copper panels.
It opened in winter 2003 in a 19th-century neo-Renaissance building next to the Duomo, although no such historic influences are at play here – this is pure forward-looking minimalist design. Public spaces are certainly rather minimal – with an austere foyer, a breakfast room (a monochrome cube), and Straf bar (a concrete cube), which makes for mild claustrophobia since it’s right on the tourist zone’s frontline.
But the cachet of staying at the Straf more than makes up for that for its hip fan base of professional creatives, who fill out its 66 unique rooms, all with designer bathrooms, flat-screen TV and music systems, exposed concrete and builders’ scrawlings.
