Design hotels balance the high-quality styling and the standard services of a traditional hotel. These hotels are created by world-renowned interior designers who meticulously plan and craft every avant-garde room. Some feature abstract lighting displays, while others have rain showers, vintage art, photography, and life-size chess boards because why not?
Design Hotels
Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel - Pink Art Deco Beauty with a Free RoomParadiso Ibiza  
Art Hotel
Would you sleep in a transparent room, visible to everyone, in exchange for free accommodation in Ibiza? Paradiso is a super chic hotel with a Miami Beach slash 70s Art Deco-style concept and an exciting twist that has left a lasting impression on the island of Ibiza.
Accommodation types: Design
Location: San Antonio Bay  Spain  West Europe
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge - Eco-Chic Five-Star Luxury with the Perfect Panorama of Manhattan1 Hotel  
Brooklyn Bridge
Among the hundreds of luxury hotels in New York, it's a challenge to introduce a genuinely novel concept to the city. However, the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 2017, has managed to achieve just that. It combines eco-chic, luxury, and a touch of industrial roughness to create a …
Accommodation types: Design   Eco-Friendly   Luxury
Location: New York  USA  North America
The Pink Hotel Coolangatta - The Barbie House of the Golden CoastThe Pink Hotel  
Coolangatta
Retro on the outside and modern on the inside, The Pink Hotel brings life to the Gold Coast region with its beautifully flashy façade. The Australian Barbie house has a motel-style room arrangement, and it's only a few hundred meters from the beach. Just south of Brisbane lies the Gold …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Coolangatta  Australia  Oceania
Jo&Joe Vienna - Hip Ho(s)tel Inside an IKEA StoreJo&Joe Vienna  
The JO&JOE Vienna is a hip hotel/hostel on the fifth and sixth floors of IKEA at Vienna's Westbahnhof, famous for its striking architecture. Vienna's centrally located IKEA has a metal skeleton frame with modular containers filling the gaps and solar panels on its rooftop. Bird nests, beehives, 160 trees, solar …
Accommodation types: Design   Hostel
Location: Vienna  Austria  West Europe
Bunk - Amsterdam's Holy Ho(s)telBunk Hotel  
Amsterdam
Conveniently located near Amsterdam's renowned Centraal station, a hub of various public transportation options including high-speed trains, metro, tram, bus, and even boats, The Bunk is just a quick ferry ride to Noord and a short walk away. At first glance, the hotel's brick-laden sacral building might give you pause, …
Accommodation types: Design   Hostel
Location: Amsterdam  Netherlands  West Europe
Le Grand Mazarin - A Flamboyant Five-Star Hotel in the Heart of ParisLe Grand  
Mazarin
A new luxury hotel in Paris, Le Grand Mazarin, is Maisons Pariente's first property in the city and is located a few blocks from Cathédrale Notre-Dame. The hotel is in the historic Marais district, known for its vibrant cultural identity. Victor Hugo used to call this neighborhood his home, and …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Paris  France  West Europe
nhow London - Eccentric Pop Art Hotelnhow London  
The Madrid-based NH Hotel Group's nhow brand offers a new, unique breed of accommodations in multiple locations across Europe, with some of the most extraordinary designs in the industry. Nhow doesn't shy away from eccentricity, to put it mildly. The hipster brand goes against typical hotel conventions like unimaginative communal …
Accommodation types: Art   Design
Location: London  England  West Europe
Villa Palladio Jaipur - Rajasthani Beauty Meets Italian FlairVilla Palladio  
Jaipur
One of Rajasthan's newest palace revitalization projects is the Villa Palladio. It opened in 2022 in India's Pink City and quickly became the star of fashion and travel magazines with its iconic high-colored design. Jaipur, the largest city in the state, is home to four million people, and it's famed …
Accommodation types: Design   Luxury   Palace
Location: Jaipur  India  South Asia
K5 - Tokyo's Swedish Designed Boutique HotelK5  
Hotel K5's compact building in Tokyo's business district packs more facilities than its humble exterior would suggest. The simple four-story brick structure houses twenty designer guest rooms, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a brewery, and a cocktail bar. The former bank building in Nihonbashi Kabutochō from the 1920s was transformed …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Tokyo  Japan  East Asia
Lost in SensationsLost in Sensations  
The daringly named French hotel promises to excite all your five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing, in ways you haven't experienced before. The hotel's six distinctively different accommodations would each be worthy of a trip to the outskirts of Bordeaux, but there is more. Whichever unique lodging you …
Accommodation types: Art   Design   Tent
Location: Marcenais  France  West Europe
voco Milan - Fiere - Alien pool & hip rooms in the outskirts of Milanvoco Milan  
Fiere
Within walking distance of the Certosa Railway Station, where trains take you quickly to Milan's downtown, voco (an upscale sub-brand of InterContinental Hotels Group) runs a hotel like no other. If pressed to describe the voco Milan in two words, it would be innovative & brave! The hotel's modern and …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Milan  Italy  West Europe
IKEA Hotel - Legal Sleepover at IKEAIKEA Hotel  
Have you fantasized about a sleeper at one of the IKEA stores, but unlike those people in the news, you were too afraid to hide under a bed and wait until the staff locked the doors and left? Good news! You can do it now legally without the fear of …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Älmhult  Sweden  West Europe
CitizenM New York Bowery - Hidden Art Exhibition & Incredible NYC Skyline Panorama From Your BedCitizenM New York  
Bowery
The Dutch hotel developer, citizenM, opened its first property at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in 2008. It was the beginning of conceptualizing a hotel for world citizens. Since then, citizenM has expanded to America and Asia and opened 31 hotels, with three more coming this year. The recipe for their …
Accommodation types: Art   Design
Location: New York  USA  North America
Urban Cowboy Lodge - Hillbilly Aesthetic Meets HipsterdomUrban Cowboy  
Lodge
Catskills is Urban Cowboy's third location after the ones in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Nashville, Tennessee. It's their first effort outside of an urban environment, but their cowboyness shines through every detail, especially the beautiful Native American-inspired wallpapers. Founders Lyon Porter and Jersey Banks are also behind the quirky [Wes Anderson-style …
Accommodation types: Design   Nature
Location: Big Indian  USA  North America
The Maritime Hotel - The Grounded Ship of New YorkThe Maritime  
Hotel
Welcome aboard New York City's most undiscovered gem, the Maritime Hotel, which sits in the heart of the hip Chelsea neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The slim white-tiled building is dotted with portholes as if it were a giant rectangular ship grounded in one of the best spots …
Accommodation types: Boat   Design
Location: New York  USA  North America
Duxton Reserve Singapore - Heritage Boutique HotelDuxton Reserve  
Singapore
Anouska Hempel, the uncrowned queen of boutique hotel design, has helped revamp one of Singapore's prettiest heritage buildings. Singapore, the utopistic city where 89% of the people don't own cars, and rapid transportation takes them at lightning speed to their destination, has a highly respected architectural heritage that keeps improving. …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Singapore  Singapore  Southeast Asia
The Carpenter Hotel - Industrial Chic Style in AustinThe Carpenter  
Hotel
Opened in 2018, this hotel in Austin is true to its name. It proudly exposes building materials inside and outside, has a pool with a quirky hangar to hang out, fancy food, and 93 rooms with brick-laden balconies. It's hard to keep up with Austin's development boom, but luckily there …
Accommodation types: Design   Industrial
Location: Austin  USA  North America
The Dive Motel - The Grand Nashville MotelThe Dive  
Motel
Don't let the name fool you. The Dive Motel has taken the best bits of America's motor hotels and brought the design to a Wes Anderson-level visual experience. Situated on Dickerson Pike in Nashville among car dealerships, old-school motels, and BBQ eateries, the Dive Motel conspires with hipster cafés to …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: Nashville  USA  North America
Willow House - The Beauty Of Concrete In Texas' DesertWillow House  
An association game involving phrases like "concrete" and "desert" would result in aversive emotions. So, how is it possible to turn this upside-down and find beauty in it? Willow House is here to give a lesson in refined aesthetics with concrete, one of the most controversial finishing materials in an …
Accommodation types: Desert   Design
Location: Terlingua  USA  North America
Moxy Times Square - A New Type Of LuxuryMoxy  
Times Square
Manhattan overflows with luxury hotels, and it keeps getting harder to stand out and show something new. So, Moxy came up with the "less is more" concept, which may initially sound frightening, but hear me out. Moxy is Marriott International's fresh brand that targets the younger generations less interested in …
Accommodation types: Design
Location: New York  USA  North America
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