Art Deco Quietly Returns Again
Art Deco has been back in fashion before, most recently in the 1980s, but its latest return to visibility is quite different from its last.
Tag: Design
National Bird
The Overwater Bungalow: At Home in Maldives
The overwater bungalow is one of the most impressive hotel species in the world. The very first were found in Tahiti in the 1960s, but the islands of the Maldives are now their dominant habitat.
Try On A New Life
The Power of Interior Design, Part 1
A boutique hotel stay is a chance to try on a different life — to inhabit new spaces, explore new fantasies, and check yourself out against a new interior-design backdrop.
Back From the Dead
13 Old Structures Reborn as Hotels
These decaying and decrepit buildings have been resurrected from the dead, brought back to life as shockingly fresh hotels.
First Impressions
Unforgettable Hotel Lobbies, Ranked
The best hotel lobbies spare no expense to immediately grab your attention and make a grand statement about the experience to come.
Peak Performance
The Higher Standards of Ski Hotels
We used to struggle finding ski hotels as unique and full of personality as our favorite urban boutique hotels — but not anymore. The standards have gone up, and modern ski hotels are distinguishing themselves in memorable ways.
This Must Be the Place
A Complicated Journey to Marfa, Texas
Sometimes you need a place exactly like Marfa, even if Marfa doesn’t exactly need you.
Trust the Process
Inside the Philadelphia Hotel Revival
Philadelphia is in the midst of a renaissance that has it exploding out from behind New York’s cultural shadow — and its hotel scene is leading the charge.
Machine Learning
Industrial Design Goes Mainstream
From poured concrete and exposed pipework to transformed factories and converted shipping containers, more hotels than ever are taking their design cues from industrial architecture.
Art + Craft
Two Kinds of Masterpiece in London
This is an exciting time for fine art and fine hotels in London, so we asked artist, designer, and long-time Tablet Plus member Rymn Massand for a full report on both. Below, she breaks down the four must-see exhibits currently running, and reveals her picks for the city’s most well-crafted hotels.