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The Bedroom by Champalimaud
Based in New York City, Champalimaud Design is an award-winning, multidisciplinary design firm with a commitment to creating extraordinary spaces and unparalleled products with their clients and collaborators. Headed by three partners, including the company’s founder, Alexandra Champalimaud, the studio celebrates design excellence and the traditions of craftsmanship--a pairing that has allowed them to explore and redefine designing for impact. Over the last quarter century, Champalimaud Design has been recognized internationally for its visionary design concepts and keen ability to infuse spaces with modernity while maintaining integrity, character, and a sense of place.
Alexandra Champalimaud has established a worldwide reputation for creating bespoke interiors of the highest caliber. As founding principal of Champalimaud Design, she challenges her staff to bring out the soul of each project through careful observation and a keen understanding of the connection between spaces and those who use them. Drawing upon a wealth of personal experiences and professional commissions throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, her designs are renowned for their worldly, multifaceted vantage point.
The Bedroom Concept
Inspired by the glamour of 1960s Italian cinema, Champalimaud Design envisioned The Bedroom as a sensuous and playful retreat where friends gather before and after a night out—an intimate homage to La Dolce Vita within the opulent Palazzo Donizetti.
A striking cylindrical chandelier of hand-crafted ivory majolica illuminates twin rugs in deep terracotta and soft sunset hues. Venetian mirrors, gilded artworks, and cloudlike sofas set the scene, while a whimsical ostrich sculpture conceals a lacquered bar filled with silver wine glasses and engraved crystal bottles. The vanity room’s cinematic charm flows into the elegant bedroom, where a modernist bed contrasts against a hand-painted wallcovering of citrus trees. A sinuous orange velvet sofa, a silver-coated stool, and a marble-painted chair blend sculptural elements with effortless chic.
Adding a moment of quiet sophistication, the terrace transforms into a refined study with a green lacquer desk and ethereal three-dimensional artworks, capturing the essence of Italian allure.