The restoration & renovation of Palazzo Capponi in Rome is defined by the vaulting of city’s Roman, Renaissance and Baroque architecture. While its core dates from the 16th century, the palazzo was extensively altered in the 1950s; used as government administrative offices for over 60 years. With little original interiors remaining and regulations preventing wall alterations, a second skin was meticulously crafted by local artisans to house the M&E services for each room; defining the hotel’s interiors for the 21st century and continuing the palazzo’s 500 years of reinvention.