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Oliviero Toscani, former Benetton ad guru, has convinced the Italian porta-potty company Sebach to hold an international “dream toilet” competition for architects, designers and engineers.
The winner will be selected on the basis of both aesthetics and feasibility for mass production. The prize is 5,000 euro (circa $6,600). Inspired? Better get busy: the deadline is August 4.
If Rome’s connection to all things eternal is what attracts you to the city, head straight for the Boscolo Aleph Hotel near Piazza Barberini and the Via Veneto. With interiors designed by Adam Tihany, the award-winning Aleph provides the sin-tillating (but luxurious) opportunity to retrace Dante’s fantastic voyage from hell to heaven.
Hell, the hotel lobby and bar, is an inferno of reds. The deluxe decor suggests that Dante has redecorated and that his designer has an eye for luxury and a startlingly good sense of humor.
But, heaven can’t wait. As a way of reuniting body and soul after a long flight you can choose spa in the lower level of the hotel and the 7th Heaven rooftop bar which showcases the cityscape of domes pointing toward the skies. The rooms are equally ethereal. They’re ultra-mod and sleek, decorated with huge black and white photos of Rome’s past and present.
Should you want to further indulge your vices (or virtues?) visit the lush restaurant, Maremoto, where the creative cuisine offers a distinctly Roman interpretation of “soul food,” or spend some quality time paying homage to the god of wine in the Dionysus Bar.
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