Mio Lab bar at Park Hyatt Milan

FTfoto - Filippo e Andrea Tagliabue

• Architectes

A decade after its first opening, Italian architect Flaviano Capriotti transforms the look and comfort of Mio Lab bar at Park Hyatt Milan. Originally designed in 2015 as one of the city's most exclusive and sophisticated bars, Capriotti revisits the space with a refreshed palette of colours and materials. The updated textile furnishings enhance the perception of comfort and enrich the visual spectrum, emphasising the guests' sensory experience.

To create a new language of hospitality, Capriotti has selected fine fabrics produced by Dedar. These textiles have a transformative effect throughout the space—luxurious materials adding depth, movement, and light reflections that define and elevate MIO’s character.

Fabrics provide a tactile and visual element - they welcome guests, offer a surface to rest upon, and reinforce the space’s identity through colours and patterns. The careful selection of materials allows for the expression of Italian style and uniqueness—an experience that engages touch and sight, leaving a lasting impression.

photo_credit FTfoto - Filippo e Andrea Tagliabue — FTfoto - Filippo e Andrea Tagliabue

Architect Capriotti said: "This project was an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between tactile and visual experience, and its role in shaping a sense of comfort. We aimed to create a space for connection and shared moments, where design is more than aesthetics -it becomes a lived experience, and textile textures narrate stories of elegance and hospitality. The chosen fabrics are not just decorative elements; the materials, craftsmanship, and colour palette have been carefully designed to enhance the interiors’ brightness and depth. Each texture has been thoughtfully selected to evoke a sense of well-being, fostering an immediate connection between the space and its guests."

The project uses fabrics with soft textures and warm, luminous tones, which are designed to enhance the environment’s harmony. The seating has been enriched with chenille and jacquard fabrics in golden, amber, and bluish hues, which reflect light and amplify the sense of comfort and hospitality.

Capriotti selected Dilmun by Dedar, a tailored jacquard fabric in a delicate shade of light blue. This fabric illuminates an intricate interplay of textures, enriched with metallic accents that evoke the glow of distant cities and imaginary starry skies. With its golden tone, Sansone enhances softness and luminosity through a weaving technique traditionally used for silk velvets. Available in Night and Canyon shades, Marabou is a chenille fabric that embodies the comfort of loungewear and plush feel of velvet. It combines the softness of chenille yarn in warp and weft with exceptional practicality.

MIO Lab design - contemporary style in a touch

Conceived as the social heart of Park Hyatt Milan, the bar is the centrepiece of the hotel's public areas and a secondary entrance from the street. It links the Cupola Lobby Lounge and Pellico 3 restaurant.

MIO style is glamorous and informal. Located few steps away from Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, in the heart of Milan, MIO is the ideal destination for a business lunch in the city's financial district or an aperitif in an elegant yet welcoming setting. It offers tourists a contemporary experience while providing Milanese locals with a space infused with familiar traditions—an ambience that resonates with the fashion and design communities, capturing the city's dynamic and innovative spirit.

The textile theme permeates the project’s details, evident in the upholstered seating, bronze and steel metal fabric panels, and the grand herringbone-patterned wooden flooring.

At the ceiling, a light installation of hand-cast amber polycarbonate is contained by a dark oak frame, while materials such as Light Emperador brushed marble for the floor and bronze and steel fabric on the walls have tones that warm the room.
The room reflects the idea of layering of memories and materials proper to the experience of travel, expressed through the superimposition of marbles, metals, woods and fabrics. The light inside changes at different times of the day, clear and cooler in the morning, warm and soft in the evening.
The bar counter room overlooks the more private and softer area of the Wood Room, lined with elm wood paneling with large sofas, tall and enveloping. The tables are made of Light Emperador marble. The room is a natural continuation of the bar, where the pace slows and conviviality becomes more private.

The textile theme permeates several details of the entire project: from the seat covers, to the bronze and steel metal fabric panels, to the wooden floors with giant herringbone laying.
The design of the Mio is meant to be a tribute to Milan's great textile and craft tradition. The textile textures, as well as all the furnishings and accessories, were made to the architect's design exclusively for Park Hyatt Milan. The materials used are typical of Italian architectural culture, where marble is reminiscent of those used in Milan in the 1930s and brushed brass stands as the leitmotif of this tale between past and present.

A new drink list, and a tribute to design: Italian Touch
To complete the sensory experience at Mio Lab, a new cocktail created exclusively by Bar and Lobby Manager Alessandro Iacobucci Vitoni: Italian Touch. A pre-dinner that tells the story of constant research in the world of mixology, proposed in two flavors and inspired by the color palettes of the environment.

The first version is made with saffron-flavored gin, white vermouth and white bitters. The result is a drink with a delicate, enveloping flavor, colored yellow to echo the hues of the new fabric seating. The second version is a modern interpretation of the classic Americano, combining Campari Bitter, Punt e Mes and homemade juniper-orange soda. A dry, deep burgundy-colored drink pays homage to the armchairs.