Around the World in Seven Beds: How to Bring Hotel-Worthy Design Home
The designers behind some of our favorite new small hotels share decor ideas to help you channel their deftly constructed vibes.
The designers behind some of our favorite new small hotels share decor ideas to help you channel their deftly constructed vibes.
It’s normal to end a trip with a suitcase a little heavier than it was when you left. But of all the discoveries you’ve acquired, the stuff you really want to take home, particularly after checking out of a chic boutique hotel, tends to be harder to transport: maybe those sleek 1920s-inspired side tables or the thick velvet curtains with intricately braided trim or the handmade ceramics that feel like instant heirlooms. That’s why we talked with the designers responsible for the looks (and vibes) of seven of our favorite small hotels around the world about their childhood vacations, sunlight patterns, and city parks that inspired them to create spaces worth visiting. Plus, we recommend a few things that will bring the experience home.
Todos Santos Boutique Hotel in Baja California, Mexico
To recreate the moody, romantic interiors she dreamed up for the new 10-room Baja California Sur getaway, designer Alejandra Sarmiento Legorreta recommends sturdy walnut side tables, plush throw pillows, brass fixtures, and more.
Photos: Fernando Marroquin, courtesy Todos Santos Boutique Hotel; Tuomas A. Lehtinen/Getty Images (Hotel overlay texture); Fernando Marroquin, courtesy Oficina Sarmiento Legorreta (Sarmiento Legorreta); Kieran Stone/Getty Images (Marble); posteriori/Getty Images (Brick); Courtesy respective companies (products)
The founder of eponymous design studio Mariette Sans-Rival’s decor picks highlight some of the modernist furniture and textural decor you’ll find in the bright, airy interiors she crafted for the 48-room Athens design hotel.
Photos: Courtesy Apollo Palm Hotel; Alexandra Cabral, courtesy Mariette Sans-Rival (Sans-Rival); Tetyana Kovyrina/Pexels (Thera, Greece nightscape); brAllard Schager/Getty Images (Oia Santorini, Greece landscape); Freepik.com (Film frames); Courtesy respective companies (products)
Norm Architects designed the interiors of this Tokyo hotel with nods to traditional Japanese design techniques and Scandinavian furniture shapes. Here, they share some items to channel their curation. Think: low, deep armchairs with braided detailing inspired by woven tatami mats.
Photos: Courtesy Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park; twomeows/Getty Images (Stones); brTomooki Kengaku, courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Design (Ashizawa); Courtesy Norm Architects (Werner); Courtesy respective companies (products)
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