Bauer Hotel (Venice)

The main hotel building, facing the Grand Canal, was rebuilt from 1900 to 1902,[2] to designs by architect Giovanni Sardi in an eclectic neo-Gothic style,[3][4] which has been described as "perhaps the most significant representative of late-nineteenth century Venetian medieval mannerism".

[10][11][12] The adjacent San Moisè church, with "the busiest façade in town", contrasts with the travertine cladding and light-colored marble columns of the Bauer extension,[10] which has been called "brutally modernist in its plainness";[13] Joseph Brodsky described the juxtaposition as "Albert Speer having a pizza capricciosa".

[9] Elliott Management and Blue Skye investments acquired the hotel through a series of debt restructuring deals between 2017 and 2019.

In April 2024, Signa (by that point insolvent) arranged a sale of the shuttered hotel for an undisclosed amount to German industrialist family business Schoeller Group.

[17] However, the deal was stopped by Signa's primary financier, US-based King Street Capital Management, which instead assumed direct ownership of the hotel[18] and sold it in November 2024 to Mohari Hospitality and Omnam Investment Group for €300 million,[19] as work continued on renovations, with Rosewood still on board to operate the hotel once it reopens.

To the left of the hotel, across the Rio San Moisè, is the Palazzo Treves-Barozzi, and to its right, separated by the Calle Tredici Martiri, is the Ca' Giustinian.

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