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June 4, 2014Michele Bönan takes a hands-on approach to his projects, creating the designs for most of the furniture and lighting he includes and personally sourcing the art and antiques (photo by Massimo Listri). Top: A classic-contemporary reception room at Florence’s Palazzo Tornabuoni, a members-only residence club (photo courtesy of Michele Bönan).

For celebrated Italian architect and interior designer Michele Bönan, designing a hotel, a restaurant or a house is a cinematic undertaking.

“I am the director of a movie,” Bönan explains. “The property, the location, the client: they all become parts of a film.”

And when you see the final cut of Bönan’s chic hotels or buzzy restaurants, his film-director analogy makes perfect sense. Using a dazzling combination of glorious color, historic elements, unique art, sexy lighting and custom furniture, Bönan creates spaces that transport you into another, more fabulous world.

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