Inspired hotel designs: Top five bold and beautiful hotels
From sheer opulence to cutting edge modern design, CommonFloor recommends top five hotels that should be on your must go list if you are looking at soaking into gorgeous architecture and design sensibilities.
Maison Moschino, Milan, Italy
Style: Cutting-Edge
The Maison Moschino is content with its role as one of Milan’s most visually stylish hotels, and to be perfectly fair, for most of us, the Moschino, with its plasma televisions and its Culti spa, is more than plush enough. The visual drama that plays through the hotel is jaw droppingly gorgeous.
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Tcherassi Hotel and Spa, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
It’s rare to find a hotel whose period detailing and contemporary finishes manage to coexist in such harmony. Perhaps the key is that it’s not exactly subtle — the unfinished brick and stone walls are unapologetically rough, while the fabrics and finishes are flamboyantly luxe.
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Armani Hotel, Dubai, UAE
As a hotel, the Armani is pretty impressive. The project was overseen by Giorgio himself, who seems to have taken an exacting approach. Not only is every line in broadly the right place, but even the smallest of details in construction and finish are expertly crafted — this is couture quality, not mass-market. For this you pay couture prices, of course, but it feels earned.
The accommodations are expansive and impossibly well-appointed, decked out in Armani’s signature palette of dark greys and neutrals. The views may not be quite as extraordinary as they could be — most of the rooms are on the tower’s eight lower floors, which means you can still actually see the ground, while the Signature Suites and the Armani Suite occupy the rather more rarefied 38th and 39th floors.
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Hotel Missoni Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The building is a bit of a fashion statement, a daring modern work by the Milanese architect Matteo Thun, which can’t help but stand out against the backdrop of the Royal Mile, some of whose buildings date back seven or eight centuries.
What you see inside is bold and vibrant – bright colors and eye-popping prints will quickly purge the very idea of tartan from your mind.
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Casa Camper, Barcelona, Spain
The mid range boutique hotel is hip and happening. Bedrooms all line one side of the corridor, facing out back of the hotel for maximum quiet, and across the corridor from each one is a sitting room furnished with a flat-screen television, a hammock, and a balcony with a view down onto the street below. Maybe it’s just a creative solution to an architectural problem posed by this antique building, but the end result is a pleasant mingling of guests in the corridors, just the slightest hint of a sociable boarding-house atmosphere.
