I am excited to offer you a guest post from the fabulous Isabel over at Travel Intelligence. She was kind enough to offer her expertise in an area we all love, designer hotels! Read below about the best new designer hotels that she thinks we all should know about!
Best New Designer Hotels Round-up… from Luxury Hotel Specialists Travel Intelligence
It’s been a good year for fashion/hotel collaborations. Between Diane Von Furstenberg’s twenty new suites at London’s Claridge’s and the fashionista-dedicated Fashion 26 in New York, we’ve a whole lot of shiny new places to stay to put on our wishlists… and that’s just the start of it. Design houses have got in on the act too, with some super-stylish openings for their own new hotels in the past year. Here’s a few of our favourites…
Hotel Missoni, Edinburgh
Missoni’s first hotel opening just off Edinburgh’s Royal Mile generated much fanfare – and its praises are still being sung ten months on. With black and white decor punctuated with dramatic prints, it’s as smart and jazzy as fans of the label might hope for. Italian restaurant Cucina collaborates Rosita Missoni’s design with chef Giorgio Locatelli’s foodie know-how, and rooms are a well-coordinated mix of Missoni patterns. Best of all – as hotels so often skimp on this area of design – bright bathrooms will make you smile even on the rainiest of Edinburgh mornings.
Future openings: Kuwait, Oman, Brazil, Cape Town.
Residence in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is the first sign Armani’s bling factor is alive and well at its inaugural hotel. Gold and silver interiors are the second. Exercise your spending power with raids on Armani’s three hotel shops, paying special attention to The Galleria’s select edit of clothes and accessories from Armani Prive. Elsewhere, you can dine in style at one of eight restaurants and lounge your days away at Armani/Spa. Rooms are kitted out in Armani Casa furnishing, which you’d be tempted to take away – if only you could fit an oak table in your bag.
Future openings: Milan, Marrakech, Marassi, London, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo.
Moschino brings its tongue-in-cheek style to a 19th-century railway station in the centre of Milan. Here, you can share a bed with a floral-print wolf (in the Little Red Riding Hood room), check in to the Sweet Room to sleep under a cake-and-biscuit ornamented chandelier or luxuriate in a rose-petal appliqué bed (courtesy of the Life is a Bed of Roses room). Fairytale sleeping quarters are matched with artful public areas: lights in the lobby are fashioned like Moschino dresses and seats at Chlandestino Moschino restaurant ‘wear’ Moschino designs. It’s all like a very good fashion dream.
Isabel Clift is a writer and editor for travelintelligence.com, the London-based luxury hotel specialists. Browse their collection of luxury hotels to find a fashion-forward hotel, including their listings for luxury hotels in London.
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