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"Le Meridien Lingotto Art + Tech\nTurin's Fiat Plant Reemerges as a Showcase of Modern Design\nTowering walls of polished cherry panels frame the Art + Caf\u00E9, the main restaurant and bar, where the chef creates Asian fusion and traditional Italian cuisine.\nAn Eero Saarinen marble table stands on a kilim before the eye-catching transparent glass elevators\nOne of the latest additions to the former Fiat plant complex in Turin, Italy, is Le Meridien Lingotto Art + Tech, a modular concrete-and-glass hotel designed by architect Renzo Piano. The site's redevelopment was the realized dream of company head Giovanni Agnelli.\nThe Executive Suite's arrangement of minimalist furniture includes a Gio Ponti floor lamp. All of the 142 guest rooms offer the latest technological innovations, such as plasma televisions. Allergen-free materials were used throughout for carpets and bedding.\nAdjacent to the Art + Tech is Lo Scrigno, with its \"flying carpet\" roof. Piano erected the annex to the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, a gallery that showcases part of the family's private art collection. On exhibit are works by Canaletto, Matisse and Picasso, among others.\n\"Every perspective in the hotel ends in natural light,\" says architect Mauro Parravicini, who collaborated with Piano on the project. An Antonio Citterio sofa sits before the Executive Suite windows, which look to Lo Scrigno, the old test track and the Alps beyond."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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