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The Autograph Collection Goes Euro With Six New Hotels

Boscolo Budapest, which joins the Autograph Collection in September

Never mind the brouhaha over Edition--Marriott is forging ahead with other partnerships, adding a clutch of posh European properties to its Autograph Collection.

The six newbies, all Boscolo Hotels, join the four Spanish hotels that came on board with Autograph in May, giving them a stronger European presence and even more historic, high-end hotels for guests to choose from.

Four of the new Boscolos will join in September--Boscolo Palace Roma and Boscolo Venezia in Italy, Boscolo Prague and Boscolo Budapest. The remaining two--Boscolo Exedra Roma and Boscolo Milano--will follow in 2012.

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The Boscolo Exedra Nice Dared Remodel Their Riviera Beauty

Where: 12 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Nice, France

When it comes to French Riviera hotels, you generally don't mess with a winner, especially when it's a historical building in the Belle Epoque style. Nonetheless, all hotels need updating once in a while, and so the Boscolo Exedra in Nice chose only the best to renovate their right half.

Choosing Massino Iosa Ghini to re-conceptualize the common areas like the conference room and breakfast room, the Exedra Nice wanted to evoke Italian style in a warmer way and "create a contemporary version of the Belle Epoque lines of the lavish historic envelope."

The result is now open in Nice, and we recommend swinging by the sculptural white bar, with its freaky tree features and light-up ceiling. We suppose this is to re-orient the folk who have spent all day in the sun on the beach? In any case, we're happy they didn't touch the elaborate facade of the classic hotel, but instead updated the interior enough to keep the first-class guests interested.

{Photo: Design Milk]