A home for those who notice everything.

Valletta Vintage is a collection of ten design apartments spread across historic buildings in Malta's capital - conceived as an alternative to the ordinary, for travellers who care about where they sleep.

"Good architecture can bring inner peace and solace. That belief is at the heart of everything we do.”

- Chris Briffa, founder and architect.

It began simply: with one room in the architect's studio on Republic Street. Later converted into a handful of thoughtfully furnished accommodations. No chain hotel formula. No compromise on quality. Just beautiful spaces at a price that doesn't require a special occasion.

Each apartment is furnished with a mix of bespoke, designer, and vintage pieces - sourced from local artists, vintage fairs, and makers. The 150-year-old tiled floors are original; the art on the walls changes as new local talent emerges. Very much like an extension of a private home.

An architect, his partner, and a shared obsession with design.

Chris Briffa is one of Malta's most respected architects - responsible for some of Valletta's admired historic conversions. Valletta Vintage began not as a business plan, but as a personal project: a way to share the city he loves through spaces he designed himself.

Together with his wife Hanna, Chris sources and curates every piece of furniture in the apartments: chairs, lamps, artworks, ceramics. Nothing is generic. If you return for a second visit, you might find things have changed and improved, because for Chris the collection is never quite finished.

That restlessness - the refusal to ever call it finished - is the spirit of Valletta Vintage.

2012

Chris moves his architecture studio to Republic Street, and its top floor inaugurates GALLERY.