In 1840, a railway station was built in the neoclassical style on Milan’s Viale Monte Grappa to feed the Milan-Monza route. In 2010, that railway station re-opened its doors as Maison Moschino. Creatively spearheaded by Rossella Jardini in collaboration with Jo Ann Tan and the Moschino Creative Team, the building’s original façade was meticulously restored to remain faithful to the intended structure. However, the team has taken every liberty with the interior, entirely restructuring it into an elegant and absolutely contemporary embodiment of the world in which our nocturnal fantasies dwell.
The building is divided into four floors comprised of 63 guestrooms and 2 junior suites, as well as a bar, the “Clandestino Milano” restaurant by Moreno Cedroni, the Culti SPA and gym. Upon entering Maison Moschino, guests are immediately met by the Moschino staple lampshade dress, this time actually acting as a lamp. The interplay between architecture and fashion resonates deeply, and is visible throughout the exquisite hotel that offers guests the opportunity to experience an alternative life, one that delves into surrealism. “When I enter, I feel as if I’m at home. Like all familiar places, its warm, welcoming atmosphere makes you feel protected. I’d love to preserve it just as it is, as if it were an installation, but I know that, by nature, it is destined to change. And yet I believe it will never betray its origins.
It is completely unlike other hotels, and it also has the courage to reveal the high-quality workmanship that built it. It’s a special place, which is why it’s called Maison Moschino.” With these words the Moschino Creative Director, Rossella Jardini, describes the hotel and, by applying the typical language of fashion to the interior design, transformed the hotel into a fanciful and surrealistic setting. It is in the guestrooms, the place where guests lay their heads to rest where the theme is most elaborately illustrated. In one room, rose petals fall lightly from the chandelier while others cover the bed. In another, a ballgown drapes down from the bedboard to cover the entire bed so it feels as though one really is sleeping inside the hem of a gown.
And further on to ‘The Forest’ room, the ‘Luxurious Attic’, the ‘Cloud’ or the ‘Alice’s Room’ junior suites, characterised by wide interiors and a spacious mezzanine. Maison Moschino continues to surprise guests, offering them a soothing respite from the bustling streets of Milan, with the added element of an exciting unpredictability. The Clandestino Milano Restaurant and the hotel’s bar are more directly inspired by the illustrious fashion house’s designs.
With more lamps made of the beautiful and curvaceous silhouettes of their dresses, small lights peppering the ceilings to look like precious clouds and a bar light created from a stiletto boot, these sets are where the Moschino design team really flexes its style muscles.
