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Splendido, As Seen by Chris Rhodes
Twenty-seven photographs by Chris Rhodes of Belmond's Hotel Splendido above Portofino, from its interiors and landscape to its staff and guests.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Benedictine monks built the hilltop house above Portofino because they wanted to live as close to the sky as they could. It is now Belmond's Hotel Splendido, and in 2025 Belmond commissioned Chris Rhodes to photograph it. Twenty-seven of those pictures hang in Aperture's gallery on Columbus Avenue.
Rhodes moves between the picturesque and the everyday: the interiors, the gardens and the bay, and the staff and guests in between. Belmond's own feature on the series picks out fruit on a breakfast table and an empty tennis court alongside the views. You come for the Riviera and get its offbeat side as much as its scenery.
It's free and runs for twelve days only, 4 to 15 November, closed Monday and Tuesday. Belmond commissioned the work and is also the presenting sponsor of Aperture's 2026 Gala. The book of the photographs is on sale in the Aperture bookstore.
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- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
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- Splendido, As Seen by Chris RhodesCourtesy of Aperture
- There Are No Words: Si Lewen's ParadeCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Krasner and Pollock: Past ContinuousCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ApertureCourtesy of Aperture
- American Museum of Natural HistoryIngfbruno, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtHugo Schneider, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- The Frick CollectionJim.henderson / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Neue Galerie New YorkFrancesca.hyanna19 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0