JK Place Firenze

An elegant habitat that joins atmosphere with scents from the past while at the same time offering precise and decidedly contemporary comfort. The Florence's hotel JK Place follows a philosophy of hospitality that is truly different, tracing a microcosm, far from overused clichés and evening routes.

A real house, with fireplaces aglow, meaningful contemporary flavours and objects deposited over time, with its overlay of happy memories and a soft approach, refined, attentive but never invasive. A long corridor with black wooden flooring gives a sense of unity to the different common areas of the ground floor.
Exquisitely masculine, British hints, rarefied décor, an understated display, calm and luxurious. There are only 20 rooms. It is immediately clear that this place could never be ordinary, as the sounds of the city fade away and a slower, more thoughtful rhythm prevails.

The JK Place does not in fact seem to be a hotel. Reception is in a splendid library of geometrical black woodwork, again masculine in tone, engrossing, aristocratic British country residence. Breakfast may be eaten in what was once the internal courtyard of the original building, now covered with a glass structure that shows off the clear form and structure of the ancient works.

The ample, airy stairway in the neoclassical pietra serena, the classical bust, the neo-gothic handrail and the almost imperceptible Directoire style decorations used by Michele Bonan, run through another historic milieu: that of the Florence of Lorraine between the 1700's and the 1800's, while the original lapidary galleries lead to some of the rooms. Here the colours soften. Cream along with brilliant and light greys come on the scene, with defined, differentiated spaces. Michele Bonan wanted to underline a breathy, understated, yet very real, deep, unquestionable luxury.

Still on the top floor, there is a relaxing terrace hidden in the structural fabric, wide open and searching for the sky with its nautical teak planking and long benches modelled after Mediterranean and North African examples. JK Place is a small, precious hotel that protests its uniqueness. A new, impassioned, maxi-minimal frontier, a dedication to quality above all else, the recovery of ancestral cultural roots, unpredictable suggestions, new aesthetic channels, personalized comfort with the highest of standards.