Marbella Club Summer 2026: Johanna Ortiz, Molteni&C and a Season of Slow Living

The Marbella Club, the resort Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe founded in 1954, filled its summer 2026 calendar with fashion, design, food and wellbeing, and some of it happened for the very first time.

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A caravan, two maisons and a design flagship

For its first stop in Spain, the travelling boutique of Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz parked on Plaza El Olivar at the Marbella Club. Before Marbella, the Johanna Ortiz Caravan had held residencies in St Tropez, Comporta, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Texas and Palm Beach. It arrived with an edit of the latest collection and a motto that suits this coast rather well: Despacio sabe mejor, slow tastes better.

Nearby, two Parisian maisons d'art shared a boutique for the first time. Maison Michel created four headpieces exclusively for the occasion, braided in straw and crochet in shades borrowed from Andalusian orange groves. Goossens answered with a citrus capsule that pays tribute to the Plaza de los Naranjos in Marbella's old town: an orange-shaped minaudière, orange-blossom motifs and luminous orange quartz. Furniture, rugs and decorative objects, many of them made by local artisans, completed the space.

The most lasting addition is Italian. Molteni&C has opened its newest flagship store at the resort, bringing the design house's contemporary furniture collections to the Costa del Sol. Love Brand & Co., meanwhile, returned for a third exclusive swimwear collaboration for men and boys. Its new Seahorse print refers to the hotel's work with Aula del Mar Mediterráneo and uses natural and recycled fabrics, and the story behind it is told at the Seahorse Hotel in the Kids Club.

Veracruz in a secret garden

From 15 July to 15 August, Mexican chef Lucho Martínez, owner of the Michelin-starred restaurant Em, cooked in a secluded garden reserved for hotel guests. His six-course menu drew on his seafood restaurant Ultramarinos Demar and on the coastal cooking of Veracruz, made with seasonal produce from Finca Ana María, the resort's 50,000 square metre estate next door.

Visiting practitioners

Wellbeing runs through the whole year at the Marbella Club. The programme Luminaries in Bloom invites internationally recognised practitioners whose work matches the hotel's holistic approach. Energy practitioner Coco Maruno returned for sessions from July to September, and from 7 to 16 August Pablo Olabe combined underwater massage with advanced mobilisation techniques.

Pollinators and open-air cinema

Families found a new theme at Finca Ana María: Garden of Life: The House of Pollinators explains through hands-on activities how bees, butterflies and other species keep ecosystems working. After dark, Cinema Nights screened films on nature and regeneration under the stars, among them Fantastic Fungi by Louie Schwartzberg, The Salt of the Earth by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, The Serengeti Rules and Blue Carbon by Nicolas Brown, and Wilding by David Allen.

Into autumn

The calendar did not end with the summer. The autumn edition of SustainTable on 5 September brought Michelin-recognised chef Borja Marrero to the finca for a four-hands menu built around the changing harvest. Music Fills the Finca returned as an intimate open-air flamenco concert with the Cristina Heeren Foundation, and the Wine Harvest Festival on 17 October celebrated the vendimia with tastings, workshops and grape stomping.

Our take

With 115 rooms and suites and 15 villas among pine groves and bougainvillea, the Marbella Club has long been the reference point of the Golden Mile. This summer showed how it keeps that position: less through new buildings than through the guests it invites, from a Colombian fashion caravan to a Mexican chef and an Italian design house. For anyone planning next season, the Molteni&C flagship and the evolving Finca Ana María are the two addresses that stay.