Casa Howard Press & Guidebook Reviews of our Rome Guesthouse

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Guidebook: 1000 x European Hotels
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Three ingredients are required to successfully create wonderful lodgings: an apartment on the second floor of a historical palazzo in Rome, a wonderful location in the vicinity of the Spanish Steps and the unique ideas of the famous Italian interior designer Tommaso Ziffer, who used his exuberant imagination and love of details to create an unusual yet private ambiance. Each of the five rooms of the guesthouse is governed by a different color scheme and features noble wooden floors, high ceilings and period furniture – as a result, guests feels like they are staying with a friend who has exceptionally good taste."

Magazine: Ahlani
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Endorsement for this less-is-more school of travel comes from the most surprising places. Elite guidebook Nota Bene, for example, positively raves about Casa Howard's pair of flamboyant five-bedroom guesthouses in Rome, even though some rooms are not ensuite."

Guidebook: Allt om Resor
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "DET HÄR ÄR TVÅ guest-houses på olika adresser, båda ett stenkast från Spanska trappan. De är små, intima och rummen har olika designteman. Ägarinnan Jennifer Leonardi har omsorgsfullt valt ut varje tyg, och många detaljer är släktklenoder eller föremål från resor runt om i världen. De fem rummen på Via Capo delle Case är vart och ett möblerat i blått, grönt, vitt, rosa och kinesiskt. På Via Sistina har inredningsarkitekten Tommaso Ziffer blandat antikt, tal och modern design. Resultatet varierar från zebramönstrat, via lack och krom till romantiskt blommigt. Båda adresserna har ett litet hammam guest-houses på olika adresser, båda ett stenkast från Spanska trappan. De är små, intima och rummen har olika designteman. Ägarinnan Jennifer Leonardi har omsorgsfullt valt ut varje tyg, och många detaljer är släktklenoder eller föremål från resor runt om i världen. De fem rummen på Via Capo delle Case är vart och ett möblerat i blått, grönt, vitt, rosa och kinesiskt. På Via Sistina har inredningsarkitekten Tommaso Ziffer blandat antikt, tal och modern design. Resultatet varierar från zebramönstrat, via lack och krom till romantiskt blommigt."

Website: AnotherTravelGuide.com
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Casa Howard Guest House is situated in the very centre of Rome, a stone's throw from Spanish Steps and luxury designer shops (Gucci, Prada etc.) 10 beautifuly designed, cosy rooms in two locations. When you are booking a room, the owners always make a point of explaining that this is not a hotel, it's an elegant residence set up in a beautiful historical building. Everything is just the way it should be: antique furniture, parquet floor and wonderful windows. Zebra room (at via Sistina 149) has a little balcony, too. Three rooms (at via Capo le Case 18) don't have en suite bathrooms. But it is quite simple, actually: whenever the need calls, grab the specially provided kimono and slippers and rush some eight metres or so down the passage to the lavatory reserved specially for your room. The staff are very obliging; all speaks English, sometimes, however there is an older Italian lady, doesn't understand a word but that won't prevent you from arranging everything you need. Perfect value for your money. However, you have to book a room well in advance: excellent word of mouth about Casa Howard spreads fast, so don't put off making a reservation too long. "

Magazine: Architectural Digest (edizione Italiana)
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Tra le più vibranti e poliedriche personalità dell' ultima generazione dei progettisti d' interni in Italia, Tommaso Ziffer, lungo il corso del suo lavoro, ha saputo rimanere fedele a sé stesso e alla sua linea espressiva affrontando sempre il nuovo, sfidandosi su territori inediti e appassionanti, talvolta confrontandosi con linguaggi e textures imprevidibile, le più versatile e diverse, Ironico e affiscinante, l'architetto in un continuo andirivieni tra Roma e Parigi, possiede un grande talento nel sentire e interpretare in anticipo i segni, le traiettorie, le infinite, cangianti suggestioni della creatività. Per Massimiliano e Jenifer Leonardi di Casalino, Tommaso Ziffer ha realizzato il progetto d'interior design de Casa Howard, a Roma, une guest house aperta di recente, nel cuore antico della città. [... read more here ... ] "

Magazine: Avantoure
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Capo le Case Guesthouse
Review: "Where to stay in Europe - Rome. Casa Howard is Rome’s secret pied a terre, hidden exactly where you want to be – down a side street near the Spanish Steps, not far from Prada and Gucci. There are five bedrooms, each uniquely decorated with a combination of comfort and flair. The Chinese Room is swathed in glamorous silks and the White Room a fresh mix of toile de jouy and antique furnishings. Okay, so you have to walk down a corridor to get to the bathroom, but kimonos and slippers are provided to ease the way. There are fresh flowers, a hairdresser and massage service are available, and even a Turkish bath to ease weary limbs after sightseeing. It all makes for an intimate affair, refreshingly different from the pompous swank of most Roman hotels. Breakfast is a feast of buttery pastries, fresh juices, and homemade jam from the owners’ Tuscan farm. "

Magazine: A&W Architektur & Wohnen
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Die Zimmer des Boutique-Hotels CH sistina bei der Spanischen Treppe hat der Interiordesigner Tommaso Ziffer gestaltet, der auch das Roemische Grandhotel de Russie ausgestattet hat. Seine fünf Suiten in der Villa Sistina im Flower-Power-, Zebra- und Indien-Look gehoeren zu den begehrtesten der Stadt."

Magazine: Bazaar - Escape Weekends – Luxe for less
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "This small pensione has two Rome locations, five rooms in each, all within paces of the best boutiques and the Spanish Steps. Staying at Casa Howard is like staying at a friend’s flat – if your friend happens to be a well-travelled interior designer and charming hostess. Jennifer Howard Forneris opened the first of the two properties in 2000, determined to recreate the stylish atmosphere of a Roman home. The rooms are small but perfect, individually decorated with the kind of beautiful fabrics you might expect from the daughter of Luciano Forneris, one of Italy’s most famous textile designers. Not all are en suite, but each has a private bathroom down the hall; you are provided with a kimono and slippers. The housekeeper is always on standby with a hot iron for your shirt or advice about a good place for afternoon tea. The miniature Turkish Hammam is a treat. Oh, and breakfast is brought to your room, complete with pastries and honey from Jennifer’s house in Tuscany."

Magazine: Cash (Switzerland)
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Privatlogis für Hotelhasser
Casa Howard Guesthouses - Ambiance: Elegantes Under-statement in zwei historischen Stadthäusern - Lage: Wenige Schritte von der Spanischen Treppe entfernt - Service: persõnlich und individuell - Zimmer: Zweimal fünf komfortable Zimmer mit wohnlichem Flair.

  "Es ist einfach wichtig, unterwegs von etwas Persõnlichem umgeben zu sein", meint Massimiliano Leonardi, Schõpfer der beiden "Casa Howard Guesthouses" in Rom. Die stillvollen Mini-Domizile beherbergen je fünf reizende Gästezimmer und liegen nur gerade 100 respektive 120 Meter von der Spanischen Treppe entfernt - genau dort also, wo man in Rom am liebsten sein, mittendrin. Dazu kommen das Ambiente eines privaten Hauses, frische Blumen und gediegene Wohn-Accessoires, antike Mõbel und auf Wunsch ein Computer mit kosten-losem Highspeed-Internetzugang im Zimmer. Ein echter Geheimtipp für alle, die dem Gefühl, welches standardisierte Hotels vermitteln, entkommen mõchten."

Website: Concierge.com
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "If you want to experience what it would be like to stay at the home of an elegant Roman with fantastic taste, you should get a room at Casa Howard. They have two locations, both near the Spanish Steps, and each room has a theme - everything from Chinese to flowers - with the wallpaper and furniture to match. At the Via Capo le Case, choose the pink room for its en suite bathroom and larger size, and at Via Sistina, the mod Zebra suite (all of Sistina's rooms have WiFi and en suite bathrooms). Most rooms are tiny but we love the breakfasts of fresh cornetti and honey from Tuscany, and the hamman bathrooms. Book early though, the secret's out."

Website: Concierge.com
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "f you don't happen to have stylish Roman friends who can put you up in their apartment, Casa Howard is the next best thing. This tasteful, upmarket B&B has two locations, both near the Spanish Steps, and each room has a theme—everything from Chinese to flowers—with wallpaper and furniture to match. The Via Capo le Case location is more feminine; go for the Pink Room here, for its en suite bathroom and larger size. The more design-y Via Sistina branch (opt for the Zebra suite) was designed by Tommaso Ziffer, the architect behind the far pricier Hotel de Russie. All of Via Sistina's rooms have Wi-Fi and en suite bathrooms. Most rooms are tiny, but we love the breakfasts of fresh cornetti and honey from Tuscany, and the hammam bathrooms (there's one for your steaming pleasure at each property). Book early, though: The secret's out (149 Via Sistina)."

Guidebook: Crew Guide by SAS
Year: 2006
Guest House: Casa Howard Guesthouses
Review: "Scandinavian Airlines’ insider tips to global happiness. - Casa Howard, with intimate guesthouses in Rome and Florence, doesn’t have to spend money on advertising to attract guests. Beautiful rooms, personal service and attractive room rates are reasons why it is so difficult to get a room. The first Casa Howard opened in 2000 on Via Capo le Case in Rome, just by the Spanish Steps. The second guesthouse appeared a couple of years later on Via Sistina, designed by Tommaso Ziffer, the man behind the interiors of Hotel de Russie, the most famous luxurious hotel in Rome. Try to get a room at Via Sistina. It’s the nicer of the two establishments. The rooms (only five) are themed. The elegant American room, with its flat-screen television and simple furnishings, is the nicer of the five. When the buste of Rome gets too much, you can sweat it out in the fantastic, mosaic-lined Turkish Hammam, or steam room, available to guests at a small surcharge."

Website: Daily Candy
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome
Review: "[...]The best-kept hotel secret is Casa Howard (Via Sistina, 149 and Via Capo Le Case, 18; +39-06-69-924-555) for price, location, and design (book the zebra room).[...]"

Magazine: Dove Case
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation& Florence
Review: "[...]Anche a Firenze e a Roma sono nate iniziative analoghe. Nella città Toscana Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino ha inaugurato da poco un elegante guest apartment in via della Scala 18, sistemato con la collaborazione degli architetti Fabrizio Cuniberto e Patrizio Ruffo e arredato dalla moglie Jenifer Howard. Spiega il titolare: "Provengo da una famiglia napoletana numerosa, e con il passare degli anni ho ereditato alcune case in Europa. All'inizio mi sembravano poco gestibili, poi ho trovato la formula della guest house per le proprietà piu grandi e del guest apartment per quelle piu piccole e ho trasformato tutto in una fonte di redddito". Il progetto sembra proprio riuscito, visto che Leonardi di Casalino inaugurerà a breve un altro appartamento a Barcellona. Senza dimenticare i due guest house che già gestice a Roma, rispettivamente in Via Capo le Case 18 e in Via Sistina 149. [...]"

Magazine: Dove
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Nel cuore del centro storico, a solo 100 metri da piazza di Spagna, è appena stata inaugurata une guesthouse all'interno di un palazzo storico: è casa Howard, dal nome della proprietaria, Jenifer Howard, naturalmente di origine britannica. Cinque camere in tutto, con parquet, soffitto a cassettoni, aria condizionata, ventilatore a pale, tv satellitare. Ognuna ha pareti e tessuti in colori diversi, verde, bianco, rosa, blu, e da questi prende il nome. La quinta camera è chiamata stanza cinese, per via della tappezzeria in seta rossa proveniente da hong kong. Tutte sono arredtae con letti a baldacchino, soprammobili in porcellana Richard Ginori e bouquet di fiori freschi del giardino curato dalla padrona di casa. A chi dorme nelle stanze verde o rosa, è fornito un autentico chimono giapponese per raggiungere il bagno en-suite. Al mattino, colazione in camera a base di cornetti caldi, marmellate fatte in casa e ottimo miele prodotto in Toscana nella tenuta dei proprietari, e il quotidiano preferito. Oltre al servizio di parrucchiere, di stiratura degli abiti e all'autista che accompagna gli ospiti dall'aeroporto, è a dispozione anche un rilassante bagno turco, decorato con mattonelle di mosaico fatte a mano."

Newspaper: Evening Standard
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Near the Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna, this small exquisitely decorated hotel has just five rooms, with shining parquet floors. The exotic Chinese room has red silk curtains and a gold and red brocade bedspread. Kimonos and slippers are provided, because although bathrooms are private not all are en-suite. There is a Turkish bath down the hall. Hairdresser and massage service are available. In January Casa Howard II [ via Sistina ] opened with five more rooms just around the corner."

Guidebook: Elle Décor
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Cinque Stanze con l'atmosfera di une casa privata a pochi metri dalla scalinata di piazza di Spagna, altre cinque non poco lontane, a qualche minuto da via Veneto, sempre in palazzi strorici e arredate con gusto da famosi interior designer. Rappresentano l'evoluzione del B&B, con tanta privacy ma servizi e qualità da alberghi a cinque stelle, come giornali in camera con la prima colazione, autista all'aeroporto, parrucchiere. Le guest house hanno il bagno turco, pavimenti in parquet, marmo o resine, porcellane Ginori, TV sat anche LCD, aria condizionata, fiori freschi, colori e tessuti raffinati."

Guide Book: Frommer's
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "It's rare to make a new discovery in the tourist-trodden Piazza di Spagna area, which is why Casa Howard comes as a pleasant surprise. The little B&B occupies about two-thirds of the second floor of a historic structure. The welcoming owners maintain beautifully furnished guest rooms, each with its own private bathroom with a tub/shower combination (although some bathrooms lie outside the bedrooms in the hallway). The Pink Room is the most spacious, and has an en suite bathroom. Cristy at reception can "arrange anything" in Rome for you and will also invite you to use the house's private Turkish sauna."

Magazine: Grands Reportages
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Les 10 chambres de ces deux appartements en étage avec ascenseur non loin de la place d'Espagne sont petites, contrastees. Petit déjeuner en chambre, bain turc à l'étage. Comme loger dans une maison particulière, d'aprÈs son propriétaire..."

Magazine: Guide de Charme - Hotel et maison d'hotes de charme en Italie
Year: 2004
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Sonnez sur le timbre en cuivre de cet ancien immeuble bourgeois de la via Capo le Case, à deux pas de la place d’Espagne, montez au deuxième étage, Cristy, une jeune femme asiatique, vous accueille et s’occupera de tout. Vous êtes à la Casa Howard, aménagée par l’architecte d’intérieur de l’Hôtel de Russie tout proche. Il n’y a ici que cinq chambres, spacieuses, confortables et silencieuses. Lits à baldaquin, soieries ou toiles de Jouy, mobilier et parquets anciens, kimono, chaussons, petit déjeuner servi au lit, vous êtes chouchouté de façon personnalisée, stylée, dans un raffinement complet. La Casa Howard qui appartenait au père de Jennifer Forneris-Howard, a été transformée par celle-ci et par son mari, le comte Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino. Ceci explique sans doute cela. Si vous souhaitez davantage de luxe, à des prix légèrement plus élevés, allez à la nouvelle Casa Howard, via Sistina, à moins de cinq cents mètres. Ici, style plus contemporain, mais toujours un cadre cosy avec des audaces décoratives anglo-saxonnes. Pour les inconditionnels, on annonce une jumelle à Florence."

Magazine: Hotel
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Personalizzata nel dettaglio -- Un'ospitalita esclusiva quella della guesthouse. Piccoli paradisi del comfort e del lusso, questo tipo di strutture garantiscono all'ospite un ambiente raccolto in cui soggiornare circondati da ogni comfort. Non fa eccezione Casa Howard, guesthouse realizzata nel cuore antico di Roma da Tommaso Ziffer. La struttura si articola in cinque stanze con sala da bagno turco. Per Casa Howard il progettista ha voluto giocare liberamente con il colore dotando ogni ambiente di una propria, unica, personalita. Unico elemento di connessione il pavimento in resina rossa. Ispirazioni forti arrivano dagli anni 50 e 70. Cosi la Zebra Room ripropone le atmosfere psichedeliche di quel periodo, con tessuti animalier, lacca nera lucida, acciaio e specchi. La Flower room, invece, è quasi un omaggio a Ken Scott e ai suoi riconoscibilissimi motivi floreali che animano le cinque diverse tappezzerie utilizzate. Nell' American Cousin's Room, il motivo capitonné della testiera del letto è stato disegnato a computer e stampato su stoffa. Molti, ma inseriti in modo discreto, gli oggetti di design utilizzati, lampade, oggettistica, sedute. Non mancano poi i pezzi d'arte, come le numeri fotografie di Robert Maplethorpe appese alle pareti. Molti gli spazi comuni, come la cucina, in legno laccato opaco con piano di lavoro in acciaio inox, disegnata dallo Studio Ziffer. E come frigo-bar collettivo un frigorifero dalle classiche linee bombate degli anni 50. "

Magazine: Hôtel & Lodge
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Quels que soient les chemins qui mènent à Rome, l'important est de pouvoir y loger. Palaces hors de prix, hôtels excentrès ou affichant complets: la Ville èternelle rend souvent la vie dure aux visiteurs. Il existe pourtant d'autres possibilités. Désormais, de nombreuses maisons privées s'offrent à louer, en partie ou en totalité. Et derrière des façades austères, on déniche parfois de véritables trésors: cours intérieures décorées de sculptures et de bas-reliefs, villas donnant sur de foisonnants jardins, escaliers grandioses." [...]

"Pour ceux qui rêvent de dolce vita le temps d'un week-end, la Casa Howard, avec son atmosphère de bonheur insouciant est le pied-à-terre idéal. Les cinq chambres, dans un superbe palais situé àcent mètres de la piazza di Spagna, sont toutes différentes. Certaines affichent un style frais et clair, d'autres des tissus de soie rouges importés de Chine. Ici, tous les objets sont beaux, depui sles meubles et antiquités jusqu'à la vaiselle - porcelaine de Ginori pour le thé, verres indiens soufflés. Autre point fort: le hammam, pour se délasser après une longue journée. Des kimonos sont à la disposition des hôtes. Service cinq étoiles, bouquets de fleurs fraîches partout, petit-dejeuner servi au lit, avec des croissants chauds et de la confiture fabriquée dans la ferme toscane de la propriétaire, Jenifer, et de son mari, le comte Massimiliano Leonardi di casalino. Il est vrai que la noblesse romaine sait choyer ses invités..."

Magazine: Hôtel & Lodge / Hors-Série, 200 voyages de noces et d’amour / le guide des hôtel de lune de miel
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: Idéalement situées, près de la place d’Espagne, les deux « case » Howard ont plus d’un atout caché derrière leurs portes cochères. La première, réalisée par la propriétaire, Jennifer Leonardi Howard, offre des chambres classique et cosy. La deuxième, celle de via Sistina, a été entièrement pensée par l’architecte décorateur romain, Tommaso Ziffer. Couleurs, papiers peints scintillants, solutions architecturales novatrice…il s’en est ici donné à cœur joie. Il en découle des chambres gaies et ludiques d’un goût presque anglais. Petit plus : la chambre chinoise est doublée d’un hammam, pour ceux qui ont besoin de se détendre après les promenades dans les rues de Rome. Un vrai bonheur pour descendre dans la capitale.

Magazine: International Herald Tribune Guide
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "In the heart of the city, only 100 yards from the piazza di Spagna. This is an English style guesthouse inside a historic building. Casa Howard, named after its British owner, Jennifer Howard, has five rooms with wooden floors and coffered ceilings. Breakfast is fresh from a Tuscan farm owned by Ms Howard. Excellent service. It's a home more than a hotel, and guests are usually introduced by other guests."

Newspaper: Il Giornale Roma
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation& Florence
Review: "Poche Stanze, clienti trattati da amici. Cosi si visita la Capitale tra coccole e attenzioni. "La tua Casa e il tuo corpo piu grande", sosteneva il profeta Gibran. Aveva ragione. La nostra casa e il luogo deputato aa ospitare tutto il necessario e il superfluo alla nostra soppravvivenza. Difficile ritrovare gli stessi odori e sapori proustiani nelle camere asettiche di un grande albergo. Quando ci mettiamo in viaggio, subiamo una sorta di malessere, quasi ci venisse reciso di nuovo il nostro cordone ombilicale. E forse questo il motivo che ha spinto quattro signore romane (non per nascita ma per scelat) a inventare une nuovo formula di ospitalita che risolva in se i servizi e i confort di un grande albergo in un ambiente in cui gli ospiti si sentano a casa. La prima, "capostipite" delle felice intuizione, nel 2000 inaugura il suo Casa Howard in via Capo le Case: cinque stanze decorate con gusto in un appartamento di un antico palazzo, una diversa dall'altra, tutte di grande prestigio. La differenza sta nella piccole cose che solo la sensibilita e l'arguzia femminili consoscono. Gli ospiti sono amici in visita, il loro soggiorno deve esssere impeccabile. Questo il senso di Casa Howard che nel 2002 allarga i suoi spazi con altre cinque stanze in via Sistina, questa volta affidandosi al genio di Tommaso Ziffer, l'architetto dell'Hotel de Russie. Ciliegine sulla torta: un hammam strepitoso, colazione in camera con croissant cladi, servita da una femme-de-chambre che ricorda la bonne lasciata a casa, kimono giapponese e pantofole per ogni ospiti, sappone dell'Officina Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, fiori freschi del giardino di Frascati dei proprietari. Solo che Casa Howard non e un albergo ma "una casa privata aperta solo a persone introdotte da amici", spiega Jenifer. [...] "

Magazine: In Style
Year: 2002
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "If tired of too much grandeur, check into the intimate Casa Howard, where you feel like you 're staying a very stylish friend. The five rooms are individually decorated and you'll be pampered by housekeeper Cristy (once a customer had her purse stolen and she lent her money for the rest of her stay)."

Magazine: In Viaggio - Roma
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Offrire tutti i comfort di hotel di lusso e, al contempo, far sentiri i propri ospiti accolti nell' atmosfera di une casa privata. È la carrateristica di questa Guest House apochi metri da Piazza di Spagna. A realizzare il progetto d'interior designer è stato l'eclettico architteto Tommaso Ziffer. Che per i coniugi Leonardi, i proprietari, ha studiato cinque camere in stili differenti che spaziano dall' optical all floreale e richiamano agli anni Cinquanta e Settanta. "

Guide Book: Italia Gastronomica
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "This Rome guesthouse is a hidden gem right in the center of Rome, close to the Spanish Steps. Walk up the marble steps and enter a heaven of peace and quiet after the hustle and bustle of the Spanish Steps area. A cosy, charming Rome accommodation, resembling the private house of a stylish friend, with high-wooden beam ceilings and laque or parquet floors, and 8 exclusive and fashionable rooms decorated with taste and comfortably furnished... "

Magazine: KLM In-Flight Magazine
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Where to Stay: the ten rooms at the exquisite Casa Howard (five at Via Capo le Case 18, another five at via Sistina 149)."

Newspaper: Le Figaro (France)
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "UNE SUITE A ROME CASA HOWARD
Jennifer Forneris-Howard, fille du célèbre designer Luciano Forneris, à ouvert deux guesthouses à Rome. Baptisées Casa Howard (du nom de la famille de sa mere) elles sont toutes deux proches de la Place d' Espagne. La decoration de la maison de la Via Sistina a été confiée a Tommaso Ziffer, toutefoi notre préférence est la Casa Howard de la Via Capo le Case.
LA MEILLEUR CHAMBRE La chambre Chinoise, avec ses rideaux de soie signés Shanghai Tange t son plafond à caissons
LE PLUS le hammam pour se relaxer, aprés une journée à arpenter le pavés de Rome
A FAIRE vivre Rome comme un Romain tout simplement
LE PRIX chambre double a partir del 130 €."

Guidebook: Le Petit Futé (France)
Year: 2009
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Casa Howard, ce sont deux maisons privées, meublées avec un soin méticuleux, jusque dans les moindres détails. Vous serez impressionné par l’originalité des décors et par l’audace du mobilier. Chacune des deux maisons compte 6 chambres a thème, toutes différentes les unes des autres. Les clients disposent d‘une totale autonomie. Le petit déjeuner (10 €) est servi dans les chambres, Internet est gratuit. Un bain turc est à votre disposition et vous pourrez réserver des massages. La philosophie de cette Guesthouse repose sur l‘attention portée à chaque client. Les prix restent abordables au regard de la qualité du service."

Magazine: Living Abroad
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation& Florence
Review: "[...] The guesthouses are called Casa Howard. All the rooms are individually designed on different themes: from the exotic Zebra room to the classic Flower room, there is something for every taste. And each house has a limited number of bedrooms (10 in all in Rome and 11 in Florence) to make guests feel at home. [...] "

Guidebook: Lonely Planet Rome
Year: 2001
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Places to stay – TOP END. Several of Rome’s best hotels are located near Piazza di Spagna. One of the newer ones, and a complete delight, is Casa Howard (Via Capo le Case, 18). More guesthouse than hotel, the five rooms are individually decorated with gorgeous fabrics and paintings. Four of them are named after the colour upon which the décor is based – Azzurra, Rosa, Bianca, Verde – and one is known as the Chinese Room. Two rooms have en suite bathrooms, the others have their own private bathroom in a separate room next door."

Guidebook: Lonely Planet - Best of Rome
Year: 2003
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Places to stay – TOP END. Casa Howard – Someone with exquisite taste and a keen eye for style created this stunning Spanish Steps guesthouse, which has five distinctly decorated rooms with gorgeous fabrics. Only two have en suite bathrooms although the others do have detached bathrooms (there’s even a Turkish bath) and slippers are provided for those short corridor walks. The same people have another guesthouse nearby, with similar standards and prices. "

Website: Lonely Planet
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Casa Howard (Howard's House) is a gem. Fine fabrics abound and the paintings perfectly suit the individual colour schemes in the 10 striking rooms (five at Via Capo le Case and five at Via Sistina 149). The location is great in both cases, there's a Turkish bath and breakfast is delicious. [...] "

Magazine: Look
Year: 2009
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Where to stay: behind unmarked doors, you’ll find Casa Howard’s two secluded 19th century palazzi. Both stylish guesthouses have a steam room to relax in after a day’s sightseeing. "

Magazine: Madame Figaro
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Jenifer Forneris, la fille du designer textile Luciano Forneris, a créé la Casa Howard. Via Capo le Case, à deux pas de la Piazza di Spagna, la demeure ressemble plus à un boutique-hôtel miniature qu’à une « guesthouse » traditionnelle. Le succès de ce premier boutique-hôtel a donné naissance à deux autres Casa Howard : l’un aussi à Rome (ci-contre, Via Sistina) et l’autre à Florence (Via della Scala).
Pourquoi ? Pour séjourner dans le quartier le plus « hype » de Rome dans le grand confort mais sans casser sa tirelire. Le Plus : l’emplacement évidemment. La meilleure chambre : la chambre Verte, qui peut accueillir trois personnes."

Guidebook: Min by Rom
Year: 2009
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome
Accommodation Review: "Livsstilsmagasinerne har ret: Smat er smukt. Ejerem af Casa Howard, Massimiliano Leonardi, fortaeller, at hundredvis af forskellige magazine verden over har bragt artikler om hans lille Casa howard. Hotellet ligger pa to forskellige adresser, begge naer Piazza di Spagna. Stedet abnede i 2000 og definerer sig selv som et “stilfuldt guest house efter engelsk inspiration”.
VAERELSER MED TEMAER
Pa begge adresser finder man fem vaerelser, der alle er smagfuldt og elegant indrettet efter et bestemt tema. Du kan bo i Chinese Room, Pink Room, Indian Room, Flower Room og videre i den dur. Vaerelsesdekorationerne er udfort af den beromte italienske indretningsarkitekt, Tommaso Ziffer. Hvis du onsker det, kan du fa din morgenmad serveret pa vaerelset. Der er tradlos internetopkobling og desuden melighe for et tyrkisk hammam-bad for op til tre personer ad gangen. Smat er og bliver smukt."

Magazine: Myself
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome
Accommodation Review: "Wer wie in “La dolce vita” nachts in den Trevi-Brunnen steigen möchte (Vorsicht, verboten!), sollte ein Zimmer im zauberhaften Bed & Breakfast „Casa Howard Via Sistina“ buchen. Es liegt nicht weit entfernt, bietet fünf extravagant gestylte Zimmer und das Frühstück wird auf Silbertabletts ans Bett gebracht. Yes! "

Website: National Geographic
Year: 2009
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "The Best of Rome: Hotels. So small, it feels like home."—Ann Natanson, Rome-based journalist and critic. Small, colorful inn with playful details—pink-and yellow-striped wallpaper, zebra-print bed linens. Individually decorated guest rooms very cosmopolitan in feel. Fun touch: a private hammam steamroom. 5 guest rooms."

Magazine: NB Rome Issue
Year: 2002
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "A mere 100 meters from the Spanish Steps this quirky guesthouse provides welcome despite the stiff, stuffy attitudes that prevail in so many of Rome's better-known hotels. Owned by a Briton, Jennifer Howard, and her Italian husband count Masimiliano Leonardi di Casalino, it's very small (just five rooms, though a further five were due to open in another building on via Sistina at the end of 2002) and intimate. The interiors are attractive: parquet floors, beamed ceilings, antiques and custom-made furniture (the better to fit the space available). Some are a little chintzy, but the crimson Shanghai Tang silk that swathes the Chinese Room is authentically glamourous and exotic, and the toile de Jouy in the White Room (each is called after its decorative scheme) is pretty and fresh. the down side is that only two rooms (Green and Pink) have en-suite bathrooms. The others have private bathrooms, but you'll need to use the kimono and slippers provided to reach them. Both properties incidentally, also feature communal hamman Turkish baths. And every guestroom in the new property has a computer with ADSL line. [...] "

Magazine: New York
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "ROME : HOTEL TO BOOK Casa Howard (from $ 205) has two locations near the Spanish Steps and a pay-in-U.S-dollars offer that gets you 40% off a five-night-stay (not available December 15-January 5)"

Magazine: New York Times Travel Supplement - Interview of Grant Tatcher
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Among the jet set, Luxe City Guides have achieved a near cult status for their exacting, opinonated and deliciously bitchy takes on cities including Hanoi, Roma, and, next month, New York. The Hong Kong-based founder and editor Grant Tatcher took the T Travel Questionnaire.
What was your first passport stamp?
Spain, age 14.
Is there a tourist stamp that you actually love?
Catuchak market in Bangkok. You can get everything from secondhand underpants to squirrels.
Favourite hotel?
Private house-hotels like the Portrait Suites and Casa Howard in Rome.
Restaurant?
Naughty Nuri’s in Ubud, Bali. A simple roadside shack with monumentally good martinis and ribs.
Carry-on or check?
Check. I loathe packing, so I tend to take everything and decide later.
City or country?
I was born in the UK West Country, so I need regular doses of countryside to keep a smile on the dial.[...]"

Magazine: New Woman
Year: 2005

Magazine: New Woman
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Bookyourself into the super-stylish Casa Howard hotel in Rome, then pretend you're Posh and hit the shops. It's right near the famous Spanish Steps- in other words slap-bang in the middle of the exclusive shopping area - and flanked by Prada, Gucci and Missoni. It feels like a private house so it won't be weird to pop in and out on your own, and when you are exhausted your feet and your credit card, you can sink into the reviving Turkish bath before dinner. Then swap your Jimmy Choos for trainers and check out the beautiful city by night, especially its beautiful people (read: men!)."

Magazine: l'Officiel
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Les heureux élus, qui ont eu l'occasion de séjourner dans cette étonnante pension, la conseillent à leurs proches. Ceux-ci auraient d'ailleurs peu de chance de la denicher par le biais d'une agence. A l'origine de ce projet, on trouve une jeune comtesse au caractère bien trempé, qui a sue créer de toutes pièces un nouveau concept d'accueil, en s'appuyant sur son expérience des voyages haut de gammes. "[...]

"Dans cet appartement, elle crée cinq chambres dotées du plus grand confort, avec salle de bains privée, attenante ou séparée. Les visiteurs ont droit à des kimonos japonais pour déambuler dans les couloirs. Toute l'originalité de ces espaces tient dans la personnalisation de l'acceuil et la décoration. "Pour chaque chambre, j'ai choisi les tissus, dénichés à Paris ou dans les archives familiales. J'ai trouvé des meubles anciens ou moderned, tous différents, et aussi des lavabos chinois un peu décalés". La bouche à oreille aidant, l'appartement-hôtel rencontre un succès fulgurant. En décembre 2002, Jennifer Leonardi di Casalino récidive et ouvre, via Sistina, un autre appartement Casa Howard, un peu plus grand. Elle en confie la décoration à l'architecte Tommaso Ziffer, qui a pour consigne de personnaliser chaque pièce. " [... read more here ... ]

Magazine: Olive
Year: 2004
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouse
Review: "Two exquisite, five-roomed deisnger b&bs, both very close to the Spanish Steps. At Via Capo le Case the rooms are all decorated with heavy raw silks and rare wallpapers. Two of the bathrooms are ensuite, the other three are located just accross the hall, but, thanks to intimate, homely atmosphere of the hotel, their location doesn't feel like a nuisance. At the brand new Via Sistina address all are ensuite and the Zebra room also has a balcony. Best of all, both Casa Howards have their own hammam. "

Magazine: Redhot (Virgin Inflight Magazine)
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "From a hotel more likle a private house in the heart of the city, where every room has a different decoration and luxury coincides with style, try Casa Howard."

Website: StyleCity Rom
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Nur einen Steinwurf vom Shoppingdorado der Piazza di Spagna entfernt, liegt diese originelle Pension, die eigentlich aus zwei getrennten Palazzi besteht. Hier residieren Sie sehr privat in luxuriösen Räumen mit einer aufmerksamen Hausdame. Besitzer des schmucker Ensembles sind die aus Großbritannien stammende Jennifer Howard und ihr Ehemann Graf Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino. Abgesehen von der Parallele zum Namen der Dame des Hauses ließe sich auch ein Bezug zu E.M. Forsters Roman „Howard’s End“, dessen Verfilmung in Italien als „Casa Howard“ in den Kinos lief, herstellen.
Der Palazzo in der Via Capo le Case offeriert nur fünf Gästezimmer, jedes davon mit Parkett, Kassettendecken, Ölgemälden der Familie und Antiquitäten ausgestattet. Benannt wurden sie nach dem jeweiligen Motto der Einrichtung wie das „Chinesische Zimmer“, dessen Stoffe aus dem Haus Shanghai-Tang in Hongkong kamen. Das „Weiße Zimmer“ prägen schwarz-weiße Toile-de-Jouy-Stoffe mit roten Verzierungen. Nicht jedes Zimmer verfügt über ein eigenes Bad. Wer über den Flur wandeln muss, wird dafür mit Slippern und Kimono ausgestattet. Ein kleiner türkischer Hammam sorgt für wundervolle Entspannung nach einem anstrengenden Tag der Besichtigungen.Das zweite Haus eröffnete das Ehepaar 2002 in der Via Sistina. Dort ging der durch das nahe gelegene Hotel de la Russie bekannte römische Designer Tommaso Ziffer ans Werk. Seine Handschrift verrät der unverhohlen maximalistische Stil der Zimmer, die dennoch so behaglich wirken wie alles in der Casa Howard. Das Zimmer „American Cousin“ trifft den Geschmack etablierter Junggesellen: große Flachbildschirm, Internetanschluss und modernes, glänzend schwarzes Mobiliar, während „Zebra“ mit den schwarz-weiße Mustern vor rotem Grund (Wände, Teppichboden) eine Überdosis sinnlicher Reize verspricht. Das Frühstück wird Ihnen aufs Zimmer serviert: warme Croissants mit selbst gemachter Marmelade vom Gut der Leonardis in der Toskana. Am gut gefüllten Kühlschrank in der Halle dürfen sich alle Gäste bedienen."

Journal: Sunday Times
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Near the Spanish Steps the exquisite Casa Howard (via Capo le Case) has just five rooms."

Magazine: Tages Anzeige
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Fünf detailverliebte Gästezimmer, hundert Meter von der Spanischen Treppe entfernt. Fünf weitere, etwas luxuriösere, ein wenig näher an der Via Veneto. Mitten in Rom. Dazu das Ambiente eines privaten Hauses, frische Blumen, schöne Accessoires, antike Möbel, auf Wunsch Computer mit Highspeed-Verbindung. Ein Geheimtipp für alle, die dem üblichen Hotelgefühl entkommen möchten."

Magazine: Tatler
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Five bedrooms, fresh flowers, Turkish Baths. This is Rome secret pied-à-terre, located where you want to be on a quiet side street off the Spanish Steps. Spend the money you'll save on a swell hotel in the via Condotti, which is virtually eyeballing your comfortable, cheery room, with its antique furniture and traditional oil paintings. Go for the Green or Pink rooms, unless you don't mind a bathroom down the hall (shades of corridor - creeping in old-fashioned house parties). The Chinese room is decked out in red silks from Shanghai Tang - more Castle Howard than Casa Howard. Breakfast is hot croissants and home-made jam from the owners Tuscan farm. For a traditional supper, walk down the street to Dal Bolognese in the Piazza del Popolo."

Newspaper Online: Telegraph
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "This guesthouse has been created from two apartments in nearby streets. The bedrooms are special, with imaginative designs and luxury fabrics. The cheapest are not en suite but have a private bathroom down the corridor; en-suite rooms cost from £147 b&b. Many of the bedrooms are small, however; both annexes are on busy streets; and there are no public rooms (breakfast is served in the bedrooms). Still, accommodation of this quality in a more traditional Roman hotel could be twice as expensive."

Newspaper: The Peak - Singapore
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Do you like dogs"? asks Count Massimiliano Leonardi, as I startled slightly at a barking commotion that has suddenly errupted in the background. I nod smilingly, understanding my room key's silver tag that is in the perfect shape of a dog bone. A financier who spent most of his time jet-setting between Geneva and London, Count Leonardi is today a happily retired man. Together with his English wife Jenifer, they devote time between managing their growing Casa Howard Empire and family life, which includes a troupe of lively dachshunds. "I feel uncomfortable in hotels, they are for corporate lodgers," states Leonardi candidly. "Casa Howard is about leisure and plesure. It is not a hotel but each a beautiful, intimate establishment giving personal service, where some typically hotel ideas, methods and services have been borrowed." [... read more p169, read more p170 ... ]

Website: The Travel Editor.com
Year: 2008
Guest house: Casa Howard Via Sistina Guesthouse
Review: "Behind the unmarked door of a secluded 19th-century palazzo, Massimiliano Leonardi and Jennifer Howard’s second-floor guest house is a home-from-home. There’s no concierge, just ‘house-genie’ Edgar, who shows you the ‘honesty fridge’, packed with cold drinks. In the five individually decorated bedrooms, the feel is high-style but never flash, with beautifully chosen furniture and objets d’art. There’s also an amazing Turkish hammam."

Guidebook: TimeOut Rome
Year: 2006
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "The bad news is that, in Rome, space and comfort don't come cheap, but the good news is that many hotels in the high- and mid-range brackets have been given a much-needed makeover. [..] the ten rooms at the exquisite Casa Howard (five at via Capo le Case 18, another five at via Sistina 149)."

Guidebook: TimeOut Rome
Year: 2007
Guest house: Casa Howard Rome Guesthouses
Review: "Casa Howard started life as a beautiful residenza near Piazza di Spagna; in January 2003, Casa Howard II opened with five more rooms just round the corner. All rooms have been individually designed with a strong emphasis on quality. The new (and slightly more expensive) rooms in Via Sistina have en suite bathrooms; in Via Capo le Case, your (private) bathroom may be along the hall. There’s a Turkish bath and massages can be arranged."

Newspaper: Pool - Life & Culture
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation& Florence
Review: "Die Casa Howard Gästehäuser von Jenifer Howard Forneris une Conte Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino in Rom und Florenz dürfen mit fug und recht für sich Anspruch nehmen, eine neue Dimension der Hotellerie erõffnet zu haben, mit eine, einzigartigen detailreichtum und phantasiereicher innenarchitektur verwõhnen sie ihre Gäste..."

Magazine: Style
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Dove Dormire: Casa Howard Guest House, Via Capo le Case 18, vicino a Piazza di Spagna."

Newspaper: Sunday Times Travel
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "What is hot? The elite guidebook Note Bene, for example, positively raves about Casa Howard's pair of flamboyant five-bedroom guesthouses in Rome even though some rooms are not even ensuite."

Newspaper Online: T&L Insider Guide
Year: 2004
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Rome - Design diehards will love the flashy new rooms at Casa Howard (18 Via Capo le Case...)"

Magazine: Traveller UK
Year: 2005
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "When the first of these two stylish guest houses - collectively known as Casa Howard - opened on via Capo le Case in 2000, it launched the designer B&B wave in Rome. The formula is simple: take a large centro storico apartment and create five distinctive bedrooms inside, without sacrificing the family feel of the place. The second - also with five rooms - opened in 2003 on via Sistina. Owners Jenifer Howard Formeris and husband Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino are sticklers for detail: fabrics are sourced from Hong Kong and Paris; breakfast (served in guests' rooms) consists of freshly-baked cornetti (sweet croissants) and home-made jam from the owners' Tuscan estate; soaps come from the historic Santa Maria Novella pharmacy in Florence. In via Capo le Case, the design scheme is ethno-chintzy, and only the Pink and Green rooms have en-suite bathrooms (kimonos and slippers are provided for padding down the corridor). In pricier via Sistina, architect Tommaso Ziffer was brought in to apply his retro-modern touch to the living room and bedrooms (rooms at Ziffer's only other Rome project, the Hotel de Russie, cost about four times as much). Both branches have small hammams, and via Sistina has broadband Internet connections in every room. Room to book: the boldly decorated Zebra room in via Sistina - but dress accordingly. "

Magazine: Traveller UK
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Hotels in Rome usually fall into one of two camps: forty-style grand palaces or dingy guesthouses with faded wallpaper and noisy pets. Casa Howard is neither. Located in a side street off the Spanish Steps, dangerously close to Gucci and Prada, the hotel resembles a private pied-à-terre. The five rooms all have individual color schemes, with fabrics from Paris (except the red silk in the Chinese room which was sourced from Shanghai Tang in Hong Kong) and antiques and paintings from the families of the owners Jennifer Howard-Forneris and her husband, Count Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino. Breakfast is served in the rooms - expect hot cornetti (croissants) with jam from the owners' Tuscan farm. The hotel private Turkish Hammam will restore those exhausted from walking round the Eternal City."

Magazine: Traveller UK
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "In 2000 Jennifer Forneris-Howard and Count Massimiliano Leopardi di Casalino turned a Roman flat into an intimate guesthouse, Casa Howard. Its success prompted the couple to open and a second property, sharing the same name. The interior designer is Tommaso Ziffer, who also worked on Rome's Hotel de Russie, and the five rooms are eccentric in style, from the Zebra Room (black-and-white prints on red walls) to the frenzied Flower Room. The hotel also has a Turkish bath."

Magazine: Traveler US
Year: 2001
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Five minutes from the city's heart, on a side street that leads to the Piazza di Spagna, the Casa Howard takes up to two-third of the second floor of a historic building. Family owned, it has all the trappings of the apartment of a wealthy Roman. The five guest rooms, named for their color schemes, have hand-picked antiques and comfy linens. The Pink Room is larger and has a bathroom en-suite (each room has a bath, although some are located down the hall). The hotel has a private Turkish Hammam and, even better, a resident genie: Cristy who arranges everything from car-hire to dinner reservations."

Magazine: Traveler US
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Hotel stays are getting steamier by the minute as hammams, or Turkish baths, go global. In Rome, guests at tiny Casa Howard have long enjoyed a steam; now the owners opened another hammam hotel, this one on the via Sistina."

Magazine: Travel & Leisure
Year: 2002
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "Design diehards will love the five individually decorated rooms in the new annex at Casa Howard (via Sistina), the creation of Hotel de Russie architect Tommaso Ziffer. One is done up in black-and-white Op Art; another has clashing floral fabrics on everything including the padded walls. The five rooms in the original building (via Capo le Case) are more sedate (wood beams; parquet floors and checked fabrics). Despite the occasional drawback - some bathrooms lie accross a corridor, and the owner prefers a recommendation from a previous guest - the place is very popular so book well ahead."

Magazine: Viaggie e Sapori
Year: 2003
Guesthouse: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation

Magazine: Viva
Year: 2006
Guest House: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "If you love the idea of contemporary grandeur, fab central locations and a private "house" not a hotel, stay at...Casa Howard. Who do you know? If you want to stay at Casa Howard, better mention my name - a word of mouth recommendation is the only way to get a room (and it's a guest house not a hotel dahhling). Owners Jenifer Forneris-Howard and Massimiliano Leonardi di Casalino may seem to have delusions of grandeur, but they get away with it - after all he's an italian count, and she is the daughter of the famous textile designer Luciano Forneris. Social status aside, the 10 rooms, all individually themed are set in two gloriously old buildings, complete with the most wonderful, flamboyant interior designing imaginable. With its parquet flooring and family antiques mixed with modern touches and quirky extras, like a Turkish Hammam (enjoy it, it’s bigger than your box bathroom), perhaps it’s safest to say the style is a clash of old and new Italy, but my do we love it! When you’re quite finished being impressed by the sheer surface appeal, you’ll happily note that its location is of real significance too. Both houses are close to the Spanish Steps, of whose historical past we should really wax lyrical but all you really need to know is that you’re just minutes away from Prada, Missoni, Dolce & Gabbana et al. Let Jennifer and Massimiliano guide you to the city’s most superior stop-offs…"

Magazine: Vogue
Year: 2007
Guest House: Casa Howard Rome Accommodation
Review: "In Rome, designer Tommas Ziffer is responsible for the beautiful interiors of Casa Howard (casahoward.com), a guesthouse located on the second floor of an old palazzo on the via Sistina. Each of the five rooms has been individually designed, the overall effect being one of intimacy – of staying in a friend’s apartment, rather than a hotel. Ziffer’s Zebra Room combines black-and-white print fabrics with red gloss walls and floors – a look that nods to Seventies style while being bang up-to-date."