Chic Chocolate Room

That dreamy land of chocolate and just chocolate comes closer at The Four Seasons Hotel, Milan. The hotel makes space for their legendary Chocolate Room, which opens every year under a different theme. This year it debuts with a fashionable new look, renamed as the “Chic”olate Room. True to its theme, the space will showcase chocolate designed in extraordinarily stylish ways.

Fifteen two-metre high panels clad the room’s walls – each carefully decorated and painted with chocolate depicting fashion sketch-style on-trend silhouettes, mixed with animal prints and camouflage patterns. This next to, plinths stacked with chocolate bags and stilettos, and chocolate busts decorated with elaborate necklaces and hand-painted hats.

Using 120 kilograms of dark, milk and white French chocolate, it took Johannes over 100 hours to create the room. A life-sized chocolate mannequin clad in a dress made of ribbons and discs of white, dark and milk chocolate is the room’s masterpiece.

“When guests walk in here their jaws drop. It is so exciting to watch them react to the room — every one really is like a child in a candy store,” Johannes said.