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Experimental Roma
HotelEurope, Italy
From $415
Experimental Roma is the Experimental Group’s first hotel in the Italian capital, set in a historic ochre building on Via Veneto, a short walk from Villa Borghese and the Spanish Steps. Its 82 rooms and suites were designed by French interior architect Rodolphe Parente, who layered rich color, marble, velvet and brass with contemporary art and sculptural lighting. The restaurant, Ludovisi e Cadore, is led by chef Giovanni Passerini, while the group’s signature Experimental Cocktail Club brings its intimate, after-dark atmosphere to Rome. On the roof, La Terrasse pairs a suspended pool with sweeping views over the city.
La Bionda
HotelEurope, Spain
From $180
La Bionda is an eight-room boutique hotel in a 17th-century building in the center of Begur, a medieval hilltop village on the Costa Brava, about an hour and a half from Barcelona. Opened in 2020 by Carla Lloveras, it is named after her great-great-grandmother, known as “la rossa,” the first woman in the family to run a business. Renovated by Quintana Partners, the interiors are rich in color and detail, and each room is named after a remarkable woman who stayed here in the early 1900s. Guests share an honesty bar, a courtyard with a greenhouse where breakfast is served and a rooftop, with the church square, local restaurants and the coves of the Costa Brava all close by.
Shila
HotelEurope, Greece
From $250
Shila occupies a neoclassical mansion from the late 1920s on Mantzarou Street, a quiet pedestrian lane in Kolonaki, Athens’ most cultured neighborhood, a short walk from the Benaki and Cycladic Art museums. The original terrazzo floors, high ceilings, wrought iron and marble details have been kept, and the house is imagined as the world of a fictional hostess named Shila. Its six suites each have their own character, from 1960s-inspired rooms with fine art photography to bohemian suites under the roof, all furnished with vintage pieces and works by Greek artists. There is a garden courtyard, a library that doubles as a gallery, breakfast baskets of Greek specialties delivered to your suite, and a roof terrace lined with banana trees.
Maison Mystique
HotelAsia, Thailand
From $430
Maison Mystique is a 22-room boutique hotel in the green hills of Khao Yai, around two hours northeast of Bangkok and a ten-minute drive from Khao Yai National Park. Opened in 2025 by Fearn Kate and Bun Dhadasih, it borrows the look of an old European manor and fills it with fairy-tale detail: lantern-lit corridors, antique curiosities and botanical sculptures. The rooms are grouped into four themed worlds, from the plant-filled Botanical Obscura to the dreamy Celestial Lullaby. Guests gather in the dark green Bibliothèque Émeraude, at the restaurant, or at Bar Mystère for cocktails after dark, with gardens in bloom all around.
Hotel Chelsea
HotelNorth America, United States
From $500
Hotel Chelsea rose on West 23rd Street in 1884 as a co-op for artists, a twelve-story red-brick Victorian with cast-iron balconies that was briefly the tallest building in New York. Over the following century it became home to writers, painters and musicians, from Dylan Thomas to Patti Smith, some of whom paid their rent in artworks. After an eleven-year restoration it reopened in 2022 with 125 rooms and 30 suites, keeping its art collection, while long-term residents still live among the guests. El Quijote, the city’s oldest Spanish restaurant, opened here in 1930 and still has its Don Quixote murals, joined by Café Chelsea, the hotel’s first official Lobby Bar and a spa.
The Audo
HotelEurope, Denmark
From $340
Audo House is a 1910s neoclassical merchant house in Nordhavn, Copenhagen’s former free-port district, where small traders once resold goods shipped through the harbour. Norm Architects redesigned the interiors when it became the headquarters of the Danish design brand Audo Copenhagen, formerly Menu. About 10 rooms sit under the roof, with exposed beams and ceilings up to 4.5 metres high. They’re furnished with Dinesen floors, Dux beds, Aiayu organic cotton bedding and Audo pieces, all of which are sold in the concept store downstairs. The ground floor has a café-restaurant with amphitheatre-style seating and hosts design talks and workshops. Bikes are available to rent.
Hotel Brummell
HotelEurope, Spain
From $120
Hotel Brummell is a 20-room boutique hotel on Carrer Nou de la Rambla in Poble-sec, a local, lived-in neighborhood at the base of Montjuïc, about fifteen minutes on foot from La Rambla. Owned by photographer Christian Schallert, it blends Nordic and Mediterranean design, with clean lines, warm materials and art by young European artists throughout. There is a small outdoor pool and roof terrace, a sauna, a fitness studio and regular yoga classes, plus bikes to borrow for exploring the city. The surrounding streets are known for their tapas bars, from Quimet & Quimet to the pintxo bars of Carrer de Blai.
Hotel Casa Bonay
HotelEurope, Spain
From $220
Casa Bonay occupies a neoclassical building from 1869 on Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, in Barcelona’s Eixample district, a short walk from Passeig de Gràcia and Plaça de Catalunya. Its 67 rooms keep the tall ceilings and original mosaic floors, some with private balconies or terraces, and were furnished with a group of collaborators that includes local weavers Teixidors, Santa & Cole and New York interior studio Tack. Downstairs, Libertine works as lobby, all-day tapas bar and late-night lounge, Satan’s Coffee Corner serves breakfast and espresso, and Bodega Bonay cooks for lunch and dinner. On the roof, a seasonal bar opens in the warmer months, and Termas Bonay offers an ofuro dip pool, a
The Brecon
HotelEurope, Switzerland
From $800
The Brecon is a 22-room hotel in Adelboden, a village in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, set inside the timber frame of a hotel first built in 1914. Founded by Welsh-born Grant Maunder, whose family has skied here for four decades, it was redesigned with the mood of the ’60s and ’70s in mind: Jean Gillon chairs, wool weaves from Wales, a library and art selected by Bisou Gallery. All meals and drinks are part of the stay, from breakfast and afternoon tea to dinner at the chef’s table and nightcaps in the lounge. A guest-only spa, with saunas and a heated outdoor pool facing the mountains, sits a two-minute walk from the ski lifts.
