Jaan Living. Cosmopolitan elegance for a modern lifestyle. This sofa is a dream come true thanks to its softness that you could literally sink into for ever and ever. Casual – the look of the leather, practical – the matching boards. For daydreaming or long reading sessions. Design: EOOS.
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THE POWER OF NEW PAGE 008 – 011
INCOMING: AT DESIGN HOTELS ™ PAGE 012 – 061
Good artisans practice a craft, great ones produce art. The difference lies in the latter’s desire to create what didn’t exist before. This is the power of belief. This is the courage to be an Original.
Our world just got a whole lot bigger— (from Moscow to Seoul, Melbourne to Rome, and beyond). Say hello to 36 exciting new additions to the Design Hotels™ portfolio.
WALK THE TALK
THE CREATIVE TRIBE
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You can judge a person by the company they keep. This is why our environmental efforts include partnering with EarthCheck and Finding Infinity, as well as following the proactive efforts of Parley for the Oceans.
The world is a canvas for creativity. This is why our Originals build their one-of-a-kind hotels in great cities, atop towering mountains, along isolated beaches, or in some other special corner of the world that they call home.
PUBLISHER Design Hotels AG Stralauer Allee 2C 10245 Berlin, Germany T: +49 (0)30 884 940 000 F: +49 (0)30 25 933 116 www.designhotels.com PROJECT MANAGERS Rebecca Milz-Bruland Paul Radny Stefanie Sandl COPY EDITOR Tracey Kelliher EDITORIAL PROJECT MANAGERS Ken Baron Vidula Kotian AUTHORS Jennifer Hofmann Augustine Sedgewick Melanie Sevcenko CREATIVE DIRECTOR Johannes Schwark
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Behold the world: These four maps—Americas, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and Asia-Pacific & Oceania—are dotted with 279 Design Hotels™ member properties. Explorers welcome.
ILLUSTRATOR Hanni Pannier ART DIRECTORS Kathrin Kluckner Vivian Nebelin Anne Prinz PHOTOGRAPHERS Simon Ager Kate Ballies BIONIC® Yarn Stéphanie Bisseuil Jason Childs Jérome Coton Gallerie Magda Danysz G-Star RAW C.V. Steve Herud Ana Hop Les Bains Debora Mittelstaedt Zak Noyle Parley for the Oceans Kerstin zu Pan Carolin Saage Sea Shepherd Conservation Society GRAPHIC DESIGNER Janica Schäfer
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THE POWER OF NEW Is new better? Or is it just more of the same? At Design Hotels™ we stand out, year after year, by introducing new hotels that each possesses a wholly unique look and philosophy. These properties join a stable of hotels that provides guests with experiences that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. Our hoteliers (whom we like to call Originals) dream them into existence thanks to a passion for craftsmanship and quality that one would normally expect to find from, say, an artisan. Indeed, we think that word “artisan” perfectly captures that drive for perfection that our Originals exhibit. Consider this definition: Artisans practice a craft and, through experience and aptitude, can reach the expressive levels of an artist.
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2 — VALÉRY GRÉGO LE FITZ ROY, LE VAL THORENS, AND HÔTEL DES TROIS VALLÉES,
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What better way to describe folks like Piet Boon, Marcello Murzilli, Jean-Pierre Marois, and Valéry Grégo, who are just a select few of the new Originals joining Design Hotels™ this year. Designer, architect, and now hotelier, Piet Boon is a multidisciplinary genius whose eponymous property in the former Dutch Antilles, Piet Boon Bonaire, is a collection of individually designed beachfront villas that perfectly reflect his inimitable sophisticated style. Murzilli is a legendary Italian businessman whose life experiences taught him that what people truly need today is a simpler, old-world way of being; thus Eremito, a hotel built in the spirit of a monastery in the Umbrian countryside between Florence and Rome. Marois, meanwhile, literally transformed a variety of rich histories into one bold new future. His spectacular Les Bains hotel is housed in a building that hosted the elite of the Belle Époque, served as a bathhouse for Marcel Proust, and, as the famed Les Bains Douches, was among the world’s most infamous nightclubs. And then there’s Grégo, the driving force behind three hotels in the French Alps—Le Fitz Roy, Le Val Thorens, and Hôtel des Trois Vallées—that have recently been brought into the present with their unique histories intact.