The Four Seasons Hotel is one of the many hospitality projects in the Russian capital, in which #fmg Shapes company has participated by creating spectacular marble finishes and products.
FMG Shapes is a company which has a long history with the tradition of marble present in the Italian valleys of Vicentino, with its headquarters in Chiampo, in Veneto. The company, now in its third generation and led by Simone and Daniele Farinon, operates internationally and is inspired by the values of tradition, innovation and culture orientated towards Beauty. The research and the selection of marble materials of great aesthetic value spans all continents to find the best raw materials to be used in a craftsmanship that combines more advanced industrial technologies with the extraordinary manual skill of qualified workers.
THE CITY AND ITS HOTEL
In this project, the commission has entrusted the restructuration and redesign of the interior of the hotel structure to the interior decoration studio Richmond International. The hotel’s exterior structures were listed as artistic heritage. The salient characteristic of the Four Seasons Moscow, in fact, is that it is located in a historic building, already operating as a hotel, which was built in the 1930s and which was part of a series of seven hotels with the same characteristics built in the same years, with rooms of different sizes.
Before becoming known as Four Seasons, this hotel was first called Moskva hotel, after the city’s hospitality emblem, whose hotel structure is strategically located closest to the Red Square. The characteristic of this building had to be monumental, something that would leave international visitors it addressed breathless, and that would recall the majesty of its location. Here, it was important to affirm the classic taste where the winks at the contemporary were mixed with the stylistic features of Tsarist architecture and the Russian culture was to be recalled with monumental inserts in all buildings. More generally, it was an architecture linked to geometric forms, in which traditional materials used for great European religious buildings were characterized by rigorous and stylistic cut. Rather than Greek or Roman style, the stylistic references were aimed to the Russian culture and its architectural orders.
For the materials, the reference to the Muscovite cathedrals was a natural choice, with colors related to gold, purple and green, all chromaticism which evoke solemnity, grandeur and richness, both in the mode of application “a macchia aperta” and types of materials chosen.
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