Picture it: If Peggy Guggenheim and Elton John dreamed up a hotel, it would be the Orient Express Venezia. This maximalist fever dream in Cannaregio is crammed with Venetian touches—think custom Bevilacqua fabrics and hundreds of Murano-made chandeliers.
The eight-year reimagining of the cotton-candy-pink Palazzo Donà Giovannelli, built in the 1400s, was overseen by Aline Asmar d’Amman. The bones are impressive, with rare, double frontage onto two canals, and countless…

