Milan, Italy

Casa Brivio

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR448.50), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

La vita Milanese

Setting

Quietly cool Carrobbio

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In the offbeat neighbourhood of Carrobbio in Milan, Casa Brivio is a boutique hotel borne out of the bombed wing of a centuries-old palazzo and still in the hands of the original family. Rational architecture from the 1970s provides the sleek shell for a showcase of all-Italian interiors. But deft concierge service is sure to tempt you out and about, too — whether that’s to dine locally or take a day trip to Lake Como. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

16, including six suites.

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates are room-only, but you can buy breakfast at the hotel’s partner bistro, Via Stampa. Or you can order a breakfast box from historic pasticceria, Marchesi 1824, for delivery to your door.

Also

If you have some mobility, there are lifts to all floors, but unfortunately Casa Brivio is not adapted for wheelchair access.

Please note

The hotel’s national identification codes (CIN) are IT015146B4BCLHDH2F; IT015146B48I8AXGTP; IT015146B48O2VQBY4; IT015146B4F7FAN5R4; IT015146B46R3WFWTC; IT015146B4I23MBOLB; IT015146B4O3WJAEMF; IT015146B4WWDETH3R.

At the hotel

Concierge, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, climate control, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Culti Milano bath products.

Our favourite rooms

When Matteo Thun collaborated on Casa Brivio’s interiors with Cassina, they created a custom Brivio Collection of furnishings. Every decorative element shows high-level attention to detail — from the bespoke beds and designer lighting to the Milanese photographic prints and Portaluppi-inspired bathrooms. As a result, there are no short straws: the Corner Suite tops our wishlist, and all except the Cosy Room are generously sized and include space to lounge.

Packing tips

A roomy tote for your shopping finds — and all the Prada and Versace your wardrobe can muster.

Also

The yellow building behind the casa is Palazzo Brivio, which has been in the hotel owners Filippo and Alberico Brivio Sforza’s family since the 15th century.

Children

Bambini are benvenuti, but very much ‘in tow’ rather than especially catered for. There are connecting room options in all categories, bookable through the Smith 24 travel team.

Sustainability efforts

Casa Brivio comes with a raft of Earth-kind measures — such as modern insulation, energy-efficient lighting and heating, glass over plastic and a stringent recycling programme — that help the hotel to tread lightly. Its sustainability, however, is mainly rooted in its community ties: a passion for its setting shines through in the concierge team’s curation of activities, dining and drinking spots; in the owners’ little black book of suppliers, the hotel’s Italian-sourced design, and its local feel. This is a polished crashpad that gives more to its neighbourhood than it takes.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

All rooms have bijou bistro-style tables with glossy lacquered tops that are the ideal setting for coffee and pastries first thing.

Dress Code

Your finest pyjamas for breakfast in bed; or city-ready threads at Via Stampa.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant at the hotel, but you have two options for breakfast: order a basket from storied patisserie, Marchesi 1824, or enjoy your fill of eggs and coffee at Via Stampa — a dining spot that’s a few minutes’ walk from Casa Brivio.

Hotel bar

With no minibar in your room and a courtyard bar in the works, for now, you’ll need to stick with drinks out and about or buy tipples to enjoy at leisure in your room or suite.

Room service

Beyond breakfast boxes, there’s no room service as such, but you’re in the right location to explore Carrobbio’s cafés and restaurants.

Location

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Address
Casa Brivio
Via Carlo Ottavio Cornaggia 12
Milan
20123
Italy

Casa Brivio is in the central neighbourhood of Carrobbio, south of Cinque Vie, in Milan — a 10-minute walk from the cathedral and Palazzo Reale.

Planes

International flights touch down at Milan’s Linate Airport, which is a 25-minute Metro journey from the hotel, or 30 minutes away by car. Milano Malpensa is a slightly further 50-minute drive. The hotel can arrange transfers from Linate for €130–€200 each way, depending on headcount and baggage.

Trains

Vetra, which is three minutes from the hotel on foot, is your nearest Metro station. Milano Centrale has direct routes around the country, as well as links to Zurich, Zermatt, Lugano and Monaco and is a 15- to 25-minute Metro journey from Casa Brivio.

Automobiles

You won’t need a car in Milan, but if you’re taking your own wheels to explore beyond the city, there’s covered parking on the same street as the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Casa Brivio’s concierge can point you to lesser-known stores away from the city’s spotlit Quadrilatero della Moda and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele arcade. For curated curios and irresistible objets, Clori Home and Flowers and Raw&Co are good launching points. And ask staff to arrange personal shopping for the inside track on your modish setting. 

Tickets to the opera at Teatro alla Scala, a browse of the galleries at Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, and a scout of the arty trove at Villa Necchi Campiglio (including an amble of its serene gardens) top our list of cultural sights. If you’re heading to the Duomo di Milano, allow time to climb to the terrazze, where rooftop vistas are framed by the cathedral’s ornate marble spires (all 135 of them). 

In the mix for longer stays, the wineries of Lombardy or day trips to Lake Como make for memorable changes of scenery and hotel staff can help with arrangements. 

Local restaurants

Just off Corso Genova, Sogni is a culinary highlight in Carrobbio: its low-lit series of salons are the setting for seasonally rotating, pan-Italian plates that are fish- or plant-focused. It’s only proper that you should sample its finessed cocktail list, too. Although it partners with Casa Brivio to serve you breakfast, Via Stampa is an all-day dining spot for refined rustic dishes. Milan embraces the art of pizza with aplomb at Confine, where the crusts are pillowy and char-marked, and surprising topping combos delight. 

Local cafés

Our tip for lunch, Zibo remains true to its food-truck roots, spinning Italian cuisine with street-food flair in dishes such as cauliflower croquettes and wonton-inspired ravioli. Dough is deified at Panificio Davide Longoni: dip into any of his bakeries around the city and see how the namesake baker’s devotion to all things bread results in brioche-fuelled breakfasts and focaccia to remember. 

Local bars

Bentoteca may not be strictly for drinks, but we’re confident that their notable Japanese dishes paired with natural wines from across the globe justify our rule-bending. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this modish modernist crashpad in Carrobbio and unpacked their Prada buys, a full account of their design-led city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Casa Brivio in Milan…

Casa Brivio is a hotel with pedigree. One of its owners, Filippo Brivio Sforza, gestures casually to the buttercup-yellow building over the wall: ‘Palazzo Brivio has been in my family since the 15th century.’ During the Second World War, he explains, the south wing was devastated by bombing, then rebuilt in the 1970s, resulting in the two rationalist-style blocks you see today. 

To mark their half century, both have been overhauled with a detailed celebration of Milanese design. Designer Matteo Thun was called on to curate interiors in collaboration with design house Cassina; cue silken wallpaper, designer lighting, custom carpentry and vivid splashes of colour.  

A Milanese sensibility may inform the hotel’s looks, but stays at Casa Brivio drill down on its neighbourhood. Carrobbio is off the tourist radar, meaning dining spots and shops are authentic, and concierge lists are your gateway to living like a local — a very stylish one, at that.

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