Overlooking Port Hercule and the roar of the circuit, Italian design house Riflessi transformed a private terrace into a study of what luxury truly means — where the finest furniture met the world’s most storied race weekend.

From the 4th to the 7th of June, as the Principality of Monaco opened its arms to the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco — the most prestigious event in world motorsport — a select gathering of guests held the rarest vantage point on the circuit. Positioned at the very beginning of the track, with sweeping views over Port Hercule and the glittering harbor below, the Terrazza Riflessi offered something that no paddock pass or yacht berth could replicate: the experience of watching speed through the lens of stillness, of exquisite design.

Riflessi, the Italian furniture and design brand founded in 1990 in Ortona, curated a hospitality terrace that felt less like event branding and more like a private residence transposed to one of the world’s most electric backdrops. Armchairs, tables, and seating composed an environment of deliberate sophistication — a social space where conversation could breathe between the thunder of passing cars, and where contemporary Italian design held its own against the spectacle of Formula 1.

“Sport, hospitality, and design — three disciplines that share one ambition: the relentless pursuit of the exceptional”

Terrazza Riflessi  ·  Monaco 2025

The weekend also served as the stage for one of Riflessi’s most quietly radical creations: the Shangai table, developed in collaboration with Marazzi Group. Its ceramic top conceals a fully integrated induction cooktop — technology rendered invisible through a plug-and-play system and pull-out controls hidden within the structure itself. The result is a dining surface that functions as a multifunctional social hub while preserving every clean line the design demands. It is the kind of innovation that does not announce itself, and is all the more powerful for it.

Against the backdrop of an already-historic weekend — Andrea Kimi Antonelli became the youngest winner in Monaco Grand Prix history, writing a new chapter into the mythology of the race — the Shangai table’s debut felt fitting. Both achievements share the same grammar: the compression of complexity into something that appears, on the surface, effortless.

Joining Riflessi as partner was Falconeri, the Italian luxury knitwear house founded in 2000 and part of the Oniverse Group. With boutiques in Sanremo, Nice, Cannes, and Menton, Falconeri’s presence along the French Riviera is as natural as cashmere against skin. Together, the two brands traced a portrait of Italian refinement in its most authentic form — unhurried, tactile, and unmistakably itself.

Throughout the three-day event, guests were received with gourmet catering, signature refreshments, and a live DJ program that understood the value of restraint — a soundtrack that elevated the atmosphere without competing with it. The Terrazza became, in the truest sense, a destination within the destination.

Riflessi’s collections — spanning tables, chairs, lighting, mirrors, sideboards, and accessories — are built on a philosophy of craftsmanship and customization that has defined the brand for three decades. To encounter the Shangai table in the shadow of Port Hercule was to understand what Made in Italy truly means in the contemporary moment: not nostalgia, but an ongoing commitment to making things that are both beautiful and brilliantly conceived.