Tag: Design

The Purge

Soho House Chooses Culture Over Corporate

Soho House saw the suits taking over their members clubs, and knew a spring cleaning was in order. Their purge is our gain, in the form of creative, comfortable, obsessively designed boutique hotels.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Hostels Have a Stylish New Identity

The hostel reached surprising levels of sophistication in Japan, before returning back to Europe and the U.S. with a stylish new identity that’s infiltrated our hotel selection.

One of a Kind

Hotels in Trains On Bridges

We’ve seen hotels in all sorts of wild places — forts, caves, ghost towns, wine tanks. But there’s nothing else quite like a hotel in a train on a bridge.

Spartan Luxury

Dexamenes Is the Roughest Beach Resort in Greece

The setting for Dexamenes Seaside Hotel is an abandoned wine factory on a beach in Greece. Not that you’ll need reminding. Everything here has changed, but absolutely nothing’s changed.

Rock and Roll Circus

Chateau Denmark Is Music History and a Lot More

You’d think the most interesting aspect of London’s Chateau Denmark would be its legendary rock and roll history, or maybe the art left behind by Johnny Rotten. Not quite.

Hell Is Other People

Small Hotels You Can Have to Yourself

A collection of intimate hotels perfect for those who are looking for some separation — and looking to gleefully misinterpret Sartre’s famous phrase.