The commitment to a 20th-century vision is down to one of Borgo Santandrea’s ischitano co-owners (who prefers to remain anonymous), who regularly considered a life as an architect while at university before ascending the corporate ladder to a senior position at a global bank in London. There are chevrons and herringbones, lozenges and basket weaves, undulating ribbons and geometric labyrinths – but not a floral elaboration or baroque flourish in sight.

That elemental palette informs the backdrop throughout the interiors: whitewashed walls, white marble paving, and a full 31 unique majolica tile designs, almost entirely in the blue-to-white spectrum, which took artisans in nearby Salerno two years to produce. The gardens are lush: mature olive, lemon and pomegranate trees are skirted with stands of wildflowers and blue myrtle winter jasmine curls around the white columns along the wide terrace of Alici, one of the hotel’s three restaurants.Īt every other turn, tall arched windows or floor-to-ceiling glass doors frame the inimitable horizon – a soaring milky blue-white sky above the deeper, truer blue sea. Vintage furniture refurbished with Italian textiles © Adrian Gaut (2)įrom the entrance almost 100m above the sea, its seven floors spill prettily down a steep terraced incline.

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