just Italians, not just Italophiles, but anyone who under-
stands—like Leonard Bernstein—how art "revives and
readapts time and space, and the measure of its success
is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that
world -- and the extent to which it invites you in and lets
you breathe its strange, special air."
Yes, of course this is a hotel. If you're in any doubt, you'll
certainly know when you get the bill. But the expense is not,
as so often, about glitz or status. It's about that third di-
mension: the life that sustains beauty, whether in art or land-
scape or architecture or even the place you go on holiday.
"The greatest joy in life is to create something people
are delighted with," says Cioffi. "Something that makes
their lives richer, deeper, happier."
