The Atomic Spa Suisse in Milan, Italy, has created an interior design feature using more than 1,200 mirrored bubbles to 'make it stand out from the norm'.

Created to look like champagne bubbles rising to the top of a glass, the "melted metal drops" are attached to the walls and ceilings all over the spa, sparsely at the entrance and becoming denser the further you go in.

The feature was just one of the features at the 600sq m (6,458sq ft) spa that helped it to clinch US Interior Design magazine's 2010 Best of Year Beauty, Spa, Fitness title - ahead of competition from spas at W hotel Doha, Four Seasons Seychelles and Revel Spa in San Francisco.

The man responsible is Italian architect Simone Micheli. He said the accolade is 'quite fitting' for the spa as it is housed within Boscolo Exedra - an eclectic, ultramodern hotel - in the very heart of the fashion capital of Milan. Details: www.boscolohotels.com