Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote a book (one of my favorites) that inspired this suite, “Il Gattopardo,” at @hotelulysses. An excerpt: “It began with shaving in a room still dark, by candlelight that projected every gesture emphatically over the painted architecture on the ceiling; it was whetted by crossing dormant drawing rooms, by glimpses in the flickering light of tables with playing cards lying in disorder amid chips and empty glasses, and catching sight among them of a Jack of Spades waving manly greetings; by passing through the motionless garden under a gray light in which the earliest birds were twisting and turning to shake the dew off their feathers; by slipping through the ivy-hung wicket gate; by escaping, in fact.” Cd: me Photo: @brettwoodwould Production: @grifffdawg