Hotel Au Vieux Panier | Marseille

The latest lodgings to welcome their guests into a truly immersive art experience is Marseilles’ Au Vieux Panier, a 17th century Corsican grocery shop turned explosive art experience.

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The Jura Lodge, Schotland

The Jura Lodge When Paris-based, American-born designer Bambi Sloan was commissioned to design the interiors of the Jura Lodge (the former head distiller's house of the Isle of Jura Distillery), she took the Hebridean island's 5,000-plus population of deer as her inspiration. Sloan created a slightly madcap manor house look with dozens of mounted antlers, antique French linen throws, battered leather sofas, and a reconditioned 1950s Brazilian café fridge in the kitchen.

Patricia Urquiola’s vision of paradise ...

W Retreat & Spa, Vieques Island
Set on a secluded stretch of powdery white sand, what was the ho-hum resort of Wyndham Martineau Bay has been given a dramatic head-to-toe refurbishment by Spanish design star Patricia Urquiola. Her whimsical, colourful handiwork is everywhere, from the polished cement floors and geometric-patterned, laser-cut screens, to her own furniture designs for Moroso and B&B Italia.

Amangiri (peaceful mountain) Resort - Utah

Amangiri Resort.
The resort is tucked into a protected valley with sweeping views over colorful, stratified rock towards the Grand Staircase. The resort has been designed to blend into the landscape with natural hues, materials and textures a feature of the design.

UXUA CASA HOTEL - Brasil

UXUA Casa Hotel features ten unique casas which blend seamlessly into the historic center of Trancoso, a small fishing village on Brazil’s idyllic southern Bahian coast.

Tenbosch House - Brussels

Tentoch House - Brussels
Large Uncluttered rooms, two contiguous houses, freshly stocked with art. Via http://hotelhaiku.com

Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam will be opening in November 2011.

Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam 
Located in the heart of the city, alongside the exclusive shopping street, P.C. Hoofstraat, the Conservatorium Hotel is Amsterdam's newest and most fashionable hotel.

luxe hotel voor u en uw vrienden....

La Classe // Belgie
Een aperitief aan de 9m lange bar van het gigantische foyer? Een Hitchock-film in de gezellige projectieruimte? Een partijtje kicker bij een oude Wurlitzer jukebox? La Classe is een luxe hotel dat u alleen voor u en uw vrienden reserveert. 

Camping is back in fashion.... // Berlin

Hüttenpalast

The Berlin hotel that shows that caravans are back in fashion...(and you don't even have to find a campsite). An avant garde hotel in Berlin has taken the humble portable holiday home and turned it into a boutique hotel experience.

Urban Cool in the Desert – The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs

Ace Hotel is a small, boutique hospitality chain that was born in Seattle with the goal of filling a niche for low-budget, high-design accommodations that would appeal to the creative, urban set. (photos: Jessica Claire)

Talk about privileged location!

Casa da Ermida da Santa Catarina, Portugal

You can’t get more secluded or away from it all than the Casa Ermida de Santa Catarina. Bathed by the waters of the Caia Reservoir and integrated within old oak trees and stunning natural beauty, Alentejo style.

Hotel Remota // Patagonia, Chile

Hotel Remota
Well... I'm not going to say much about this one but WOW! Such a beautiful building - I want to get there right now!

The Michelberger Hotel - Berlin

The Michelberger Hotel

119 rooms in an old factory building, built for Australian carpenters, Swedish models, Englisch rockstars, Japanese businessmen, German racing car drivers and american dudes.

Mama Shelter - Paris

Mama Shelter, Paris.

Love Mama Shelter. This former garage located on East Paris was lovingly transformed by Philippe Starck. Rooms are simple yet modern complete with iMac televisions, dark carpets with scribbling and bathrooms stocked with Kiehls. The rooms have just the right amount of edge (check the mask lamps out) and comfort to settle the most restless soul. The hotel has a cocktail bar and restaurant serving traditional French fare.

Love is in the Air....

la Banane on St. Barts

Hotel La Banane on St. Barts is an exclusive, retro-chic hotel of nine distinctive bungalows, each equipped with its own private terrace. An exceptional hideout featuring an unique intimate atmosphere, where you come to lose yoursfelf… the better to find yourself.

True North African desert culture

Eco Retreat Dar-Hi Hotel
All rooms come without televisions, telephones or Internet Access, and are sparsely furnished with the simple red-pine furnitere Crasset designed for the hotel. They're comfortable but slightly monastic, an implicit invitation to ratchet down, let the slate go blank and rest.
DAR HI is not accessible by car, you leave the city, so you will arrive on foot and once you are welcomed in you will take off your shoes and will be wearing local Tunesian slippers called Babouches, your journey may begin....

Definition of Luxury

Rough-Luxe

Rough-Luxe is a new way of looking at luxury as a moment in time and not only part of an object of consumption. Luxury is an enriching personal experience and not only an ownership of an expensive object. It is a different definition of luxury: time for reflection, the intellectual value of objects - of art, nature, culture, our environment and the people around us, of social and cultural experiences linked to locations as well as the ‘consumable’ items; food, lifestyle objects and events.