The Aficionados: Alchemists of Italy is a new Italian magazine focused on hotels, hotel design, travel and culture. If you like to travel in style, design hospitality spaces or you're attracted to fine design or perhaps just looking for ideas, this Italian survey is a page-turner.
Published by the hotel group and platform TheAficionados.com, the magazine features hotel interiors, restoration dens, modern mountain residences, new constructions of meticulous provenance and re-loved historical gems dance across the spectrum of hotel owners' autobiographical concepts.
The Aficionados: Alchemists of Italy showcases 21 hand-selected hotels over 148 pages, from a 13th-century Venetian-Byzantine palace, aged monasteries transformed for the hip pilgrims of today, gorgeously chilled reborn hotels that celebrate 'Cinematic Italian' to a once abandoned hilltop Tuscan village, salvaged by a man who fell in love with the views over Val d'Orcia. The magazine references the outposts of intricate Italian design, meticulously detailed hotel spaces using the icons of Italy in their unmistakable chemistry, sometimes in the guise of rich Medici reds, a minimalist sanctuary and others that hug a blaze of magical terrazzo.