Part blow-dryer and styling tool, the Dyson Airwrap sells for $600. It inspires almost pornographic lust among beauty-lovers of all persuasions. It’s the kind of thing that is found almost exclusively in the cupboards of the very rich. It is also found in every guest room—in a custom leather case—at Passalacqua, a new, 24-suite hotel that just opened in Moltrasio, on the shores of Lake Como.
There’s so much grandeur and beauty at Passalacqua that to even mention a personal-care device feels almost wrong, but the Dyson Airwrap is a metaphor of sorts for everything that 39-year-old proprietor Valentina De Santis has created at her first hospitality project. It’s so much more thoughtful and luxurious than even the fussiest guest could have envisioned.
