Il Bottaccio by Sossio
A Living Gallery in Tuscany
Sossio Art Collection at Il Bottaccio, a Relais & Châteaux in the hills of Versilia — where art runs through every room.
At Il Bottaccio, the art does not wait in a single room for visitors to find it. It runs through the building. Paintings line the corridors and fill the suites. An oil painting is set within a wooden door. Even a handrail carries a work by the artist.
Between nature and beauty
Il Bottaccio is a former olive oil mill in the foothills of the Apuan Alps, a short drive from the beaches of Forte dei Marmi. Hotels often treat art as decoration. Here, one painter’s work shapes how the whole property is lived in.
From the common areas to each of the eight suites, the works are placed in conversation with the architecture. Old stone sits beside fields of colour. Period furniture meets modern lines. The light of the Versilia hills moves across the canvases and changes what they show.
Paintings meant to be lived with, not visited.
A different idea of luxury
The collaboration offers a quieter definition of luxury. It is less about display than about attention: care for detail, time to look, and the chance that a painting might change how a guest sees and how fast they move.
Seen every day, in the rooms where guests sleep, read and talk, the canvases work slowly. Tuscany has always been a place where old buildings and new art share a roof. At Il Bottaccio, that conversation continues — in the corridors, in the suites, and in anyone who stops long enough to look.
Towards cultural welfare in hospitality
We invite hotels that see hospitality as a form of care to talk with us about original art in the places where guests stay: a daily presence that accompanies rest, quiet and contemplation, for guests and hosts alike.
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