Design hotels

Nanshan, Shenzhen $$

Artisse Place

Chris Shao balances warm residential tones with custom sculptural screens.

St Paul's, Bristol From $250

Artist Residence Bristol

Pitched timber beams and exposed brickwork frame upcycled furniture and eclectic pop art.

Pimlico, London From $450

Artist Residence London

Reclaimed floorboards, vintage industrial fittings, and pop art prints furnish ten individually styled townhouse bedrooms.

Penzance 2010 From $200

Artist Residence Penzance

Individually styled bedrooms with artist murals, exposed beams, and reclaimed timber panelling.

Vera, Tbilisi From $80

Artizan Design Hotel

Modernist architecture and oak parquet rooms with an experimental vertical staircase gallery.

Vieille Ville, La Rochelle $$

Arty Hotel & Spa Monnaie

Vibrant pop-baroque interiors display rotating sculptures and paintings by regional contemporary artists.

Hengqin, Zhuhai $$

Artyzen Habitat Hengqin Zhuhai

Bold graffiti murals and color-blocked furniture set a punchy tone across public spaces.

Suzhou Old Town, Suzhou $$

Artyzen Habitat Suzhou

SL+A Group balances classical Jiangnan garden aesthetics with residential layouts and garden-facing balconies.

Tirolo, Merano $$$$

Arua Private Spa Villas

Stepped hillside architecture featuring fair-faced concrete, full-height glass, and custom Molteni furnishings facing the Texel Group.

Old Town, Ljubljana From $250

AS Boutique Hotel

OFIS arhitekti wrapped the timber-slatted facade around rooms hung with Slovenian Pop art.

Silom, Bangkok From $50

ASAI Bangkok Sathorn

ASWA-designed architecture featuring an angled black metal grid facade, pale timber millwork, and polished terrazzo interiors.

Asakusa, Tokyo From $200

Asakusa Kokono Club Hotel

Industrial boutique styling combines with custom timber joinery, textured washi paper, and locally crafted ceramics.

Asakusa, Tokyo From $250

Asakusa View Hotel Annex Rokku

Solid Yoshino cypress atrium framing, authentic salvaged Kabukiza floorboards, and traditional sliding fusuma screens.

Downtown, Salt Lake City $$$

Asher Adams, Autograph Collection

French Second Empire brickwork meets a modern glass tower framing Wasatch Mountain views.

Platanias, Crete $$$

Asterion Suites & Spa

Polished minimalist suites themed around Cretan cosmology, free of faux-rustic stucco.

Imerovigli, Santorini $$$$

Astra Suites

Domed cave ceilings above colourful tiled floors resembling opalescent sea glass.

Santa Rosa, Sonoma $$

Astro Motel

Original midcentury auction furnishings and local artisan finishes appoint every restored room.

Drafaki, Mykonos $$$$

Asty Mykonos | Hotel & Spa

Dark-tiled pool water and deep green marble bathrooms temper classic white Cycladic terraces.

Bruton $$

At the Chapel

Reclaimed masonry and stair treads shaped from three-hundred-year-old oak timbers.

Izusan, Atami From $650

Atami Izusan Karaku

An eighth-floor sky reception framing Sagami Bay with an infinity-edge reflecting water pool.

Miraflores, Lima From $400

Atemporal by Andean

Residential interiors styled with custom timber joinery, plush seating, and warm palettes.

Monastiraki, Athens $$

Athenian Foss

Marble and velvet interiors join custom neoclassical timber frames along pedestrian Ermou Street.

Akadimia, Athens $$$

Athens Capital Hotel - MGallery Collection

George Lappas’s 3,000-piece metal sculpture cuts through the central ten-storey atrium.

Syntagma, Athens $$$

Athens Capital Suites - MGallery Collection

Grecian marble, soft curves, and gold accents shape the restored interwar interiors.

Makrygianni, Athens $$$

AthensWas Design Hotel

Interiors channel sixties Athenian modernism with native walnut and green Greek marble.

Calacoto, La Paz $$

Atix Hotel

An angled glass parallelogram clad in Comanche flagstone and native Andean timber.

Old Town, Hoi An $

Atlas Hotel

Cantilevered planters draped in greenery line sandstone walls around central courtyards.

Imerovigli, Santorini $$$$

Atoles Retreat

Whitewashed cave suites sculpted into volcanic rock, finished with oak and pressed cement.

McMinnville, Willamette Valley $$$

Atticus Hotel

Handcrafted fireplace mantels, cast-brass animal door knockers, and headboards wrapped in hand-painted wallpaper.

Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong From $150

Attitude on Granville

Repurposed plastic market crates form the reception desk alongside retro school desks and custom wall murals.

Cognet, Alpe d'Huez $$$$

Au Chamois D'Or

Timber and stone chalet architecture with carved balustrades and wood-lined attic suites.

Champex-Lac $$$$

Au Club Alpin

Interiors blending native fir timber and cut Simplon stone with clean, minimalist lines overlooking Lake Champex.

Le Panier, Marseille $$

Au Vieux Panier

Guest rooms conceived as artistic installations, including the half-graffiti split-canvas Panic Room.

Aillon-le-Jeune, Aillons-Margeriaz $$

Auberge d'Aillon et d'Ailleurs

Individually conceived alpine rooms and a monumental wooden garden sculpture by Simon Augade.

Banne 2013 $$

Auberge de Banne

Vaulted brick ceilings and vintage rattan armchairs collected by an antiquarian owner.

Entreves, Courmayeur $$$

Auberge de la Maison

White fir boiserie and walls hung with antique Alpine prints.