El Roblar A 1919 Ojai hotel, reopened and filled with 1,000 curiosities
Casa Caban Hayama Patricia Urquiola's fourteen-room hotel on Sagami Bay, where the facade, the ceiling and the pool floor are all variations on a weave
Hoshinoya Nara Prison Japan's last intact Meiji prison, radial wings and all, reopened in June as a hotel where every suite is a run of nine to eleven cells
Riviera Hotel Menorca Fourteen rooms in Ciutadella where the stripe is the architecture, not the trim
Finds
- El Roblar A 1919 Ojai hotel, reopened and filled with 1,000 curiosities
- Coworth Park's stable rooms Berkshire stable rooms with dried meadow flowers cast into the tabletops
- Casa Caban Hayama Patricia Urquiola's fourteen-room hotel woven from bamboo, resin and suminagashi
- Hoshinoya Nara Prison A 1908 Meiji prison reopened as a hotel, each suite made from nine to eleven original cells
- Vestige Binidufà Eleven rooms in an 18th-century finca, with 800 hectares around it
- El Cortés A three-year restoration of a Roma Norte art nouveau house, down to the stained glass
- Hotel Riviera Menorca done in 1970s Romagna colours instead of the usual whitewash
- Riviera Hotel Menorca Fourteen rooms built almost entirely out of stripes
- The Zetter Bloomsbury Six Georgian townhouses beside the British Museum
- Casa Bonavita A 1715 Maltese palazzo, seven years in the restoring
- La Fantaisie's Living Gallery Suite A Paris hotel room turned nine-month art installation
- Amanvari Aman's first Mexico property, far from the Cabo most travellers know
- Park Hyatt Tokyo (reopened) The Lost in Translation hotel reopens after a Studio Jouin Manku redesign
- RockRose Melides A Portuguese guesthouse where the brief is silence
- Andaz Lisbon Patricia Urquiola-designed Lisbon hotel in vibrant color
- Fairmont Hanoi Fairmont's first Vietnam location
- Shakti Prana Seven-suite Himalayan lodge that pairs trekking with high-end hospitality
- Hannah St Hotel David Flack's design coup on a triangular Melbourne block
- Hotel Julien A 16th-century Antwerp townhouse rebuilt as a hidden 21-room hotel
- Hotel Monroe First fully gluten-free hotel in the United States
- JW Marriott Tokyo Yabu Pushelberg minimalism, 30 floors above Takanawa Gateway
- Six Senses London A wellness hotel with a biohacking lounge, in a Bayswater department store
- Why You Shouldn't Put a Suitcase on the Hotel Bed Suitcase wheels carry 58× the bacteria of a public toilet seat
- The Fife Arms A Scottish Highlands hotel with a new Russell Sage-designed Coco Chanel secret room
- Azuma Farm Koiwai A 24-room slow-living retreat on a working Japanese farm
- Capella Kyoto Kengo Kuma-designed hotel that feels like an old townhouse, not a chain
- Hôtel Villa Colette, Cap Ferret Philippe Starck designs a coastal villa that's almost cartoonish on purpose