Parallasse Hotel | Hospitality Brand Design by Afton & Sebastian | Regent ParkParallasse Hotel | Hospitality Brand Design by Afton & Sebastian | Regent Park

Parallasse Hotel | Hospitality Brand Design

Afton & Sebastian | Regent Park

Afton & Sebastian | Regent Park

Some places you visit. 
Others, you arrive at.

Parallasse is set in Trieste — a city that resists easy description. Mediterranean but not quite Italian. Central European but no longer an empire's capital. It has the bones of grandeur and the mood of a long Sunday afternoon. We built a brand that felt the same way: precise, a little theatrical, and impossible to place exactly.

A hotel is experienced one detail at a time.

The weight of the keycard. The typography on the door sign. The paper of the notepad, the scent of the soap. These are the things guests notice without quite knowing they noticed them.

A room of one's own.

Every room is a considered pause. Tall windows that frame the light rather than fight it. A bathroom where the soap has its own story. Soft linens that makes you cancel your plans.

A table that knows where it is.

The plate arrives the way everything does at Parallasse — deliberately. The menu draws from the collision of cultures that defines Trieste: Italian, yet still entirely its own. Order the gnocchi. Order it again.

Taking back time.

Trieste rewards the unhurried. The guests who linger over a second coffee, who open a book and forget to close it, who notice the light has changed and decide that's reason enough to stay exactly where they are. The coffee shop at Parallasse was designed for exactly that kind of morning.

A destination before the destination.

The website was designed to do what the hotel does — hold your attention without asking for it.

Let's build something considered.

Parallasse doesn't exist — yet. But the brand does. If you're building a hotel, a restaurant, a retreat, or any hospitality experience that deserves this level of attention, we'd love to be part of it.

Parallasse was conceived, designed, and art-directed by Regent Park Studio. Brand identity and illustration in Figma, Illustrator and Photoshop. Imagery and video generated with Lovart.
Built as a passion project — the best kind of brief.
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Posted Apr 26, 2026

A conceptual boutique hotel brand for Trieste, Italy — identity, illustration, AI direction, web and collateral. Built for the love of it.

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Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 24, 2026

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Regent Park Studio