"Jean Nouvel architecture and Philippe Starck design. Art by influential Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. Twenty-four kinds of marble and 4,000 artisans represented. The Rosewood São Paulo is superlative in many ways, and visitors and residents alike have swooned over the city’s newest five-star hotel since it opened in January 2022. Within the Bela Vista neighborhood in the heart of the city, the Rosewood isn’t just a hotel—it’s a mixed-use complex. A former maternity hospital has been converted into 160 guest rooms, three restaurants (one staffed 24 hours a day), two pools (a rooftop infinity pool and a ground-level pool with Gaudi-like mosaic tiles), and a jazz/cocktail bar. An ultra-modern, vertical-garden tower will house Rosewood’s biggest suites and 100 residences. Also on site: the 1922 Chapel of Santa Luzia to be used for weddings and a forthcoming cultural center." - Laura Dannen Redman
