Hot List Hotels 2007
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More than 15 years after designing HaasHaus, which sits like a postmodern exclamation point amid the imperial glory of Vienna's Stephansplatz,...
The location of this sleek 149-room property—one block from Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European Commission—contributes to its...
In a city of Gothic spires and Baroque curlicues, the Yasmin is a retro-futuristic option. While there are no fluffy robes or fancy vanities, the 198...
The 99-room Mandarin Oriental occupies a renovated and expanded fourteenth-century monastery in Malá Strana, the quarter at the foot of Prague...
The first thing you notice is the Guest Wall, a floor-to-ceiling blackboard on which previous visitors have scribbled messages in colored chalk....
Hotelier-chef Michael Caines's latest Abode hotel, in the heart of Canterbury, suggests that Caines is getting ever better at his game. Located...
This 67-room town house hotel in Earls Court offers spectacular value for the money, and nothing about it sighs "budget." Rooms are snug but...
A good base for visiting Windsor Castle and Henley-on-Thames, The Forbury is also a perfect plush rest stop before an early flight out of Heathrow....
Nick Jones, founder of the Soho House, is known both for his empire of London brasseries and his private clubs. His latest venture is in the West...
To say there are few places in London where you can tuck yourself between Frette linens under a duck-down duvet for less than $200 is putting it...
A stay at the Abbaye de la Bussière suggests that monastic life isn't so bad after all. The setting alone is divine—an idyllic...
In a quiet neighborhood on the Cap du Pinet, the 42-room Benkiraï is for those who love St-Tropez best at arm's length. The centerpiece pool is...
André, the mono-monikered artist and nightlife impresario, has reworked this Montmarte building into a hip bobo (bohemian bourgeois) flophouse,...
No place shows off Biarritz's renewed chic better than this eight-room bijou in the midst of a vast park in the center of town. Owner...
Deep in a storybook-perfect forest in the eastern region of Moselle, the sleek Hôtel K is the project of chef Jean-Georges Klein and his wife,...
With its bold graphics and contemporary art, the 100-room New Hotel injects South Beach style into this old port city. Herb gardens that supply the...
With only 12 rooms in an apricot-painted villa in the heart of town, the Pan Deï Palais feels like an intimate guesthouse that channels the...
In the heart of the fashionable Mitte district, the 146-room Hotel de Rome gives the reigning Hotel Adlon and The Regent (formerly the Four Seasons)...
Düsseldorf's fashionable crowd heads straight for the MedienHafen, a tiny river port that in recent years has been transformed into a...
Located in the leafy Sachsenhausen district, the 163-room Villa Kennedy redefines luxury lodgings in the age of the boutique hotel. For starters, it...
Designed in 1750 by Richard Castle, the architect who created Dublin's Parliament Building, Bellinter House was for centuries a sprawling estate...
What appears to be an aristocrat's stately nineteenth-century seaside manor was in fact built in 2006 by the developers of South Carolina's Kiawah...
At first glance, this comely country house appears not to have changed in the 300 years it has stood on this site. Its presence, however, is a bit of...
With its 700 acres of centuries-old cypress trees and impressive gardens, Castello del Nero feels much like the fiefdom of a Tuscan lord—and in...
This Ron Arad–created modern edifice in the center of the Adriatic town of Rimini (Italy's Atlantic City) is a world away in design from...
A daringly renovated seventeenth-century building constructed over the ancient part of Rome (on the ground floor is a fascinating vaulted passageway...
Surrounded by ancient olive trees and an immaculate nine-hole golf course, this 28-room sister property to the fabulous Masseria Torre Coccaro in...
This Sicilian island of black volcanic beaches, pretty coves with colored fishing boats, and an interior of olive trees and vineyards has long been...
The Ferragamo family's first Rome hotel is a discreet property with 14 suites and studios above its men's flagship luxury store on Via...
Designed by Florentine architect Claudio Nardi, this striking nine-room property, in a refurbished nineteenth-century factory on the southern bank of...
The St. George shines as much for its charm as for its perfect location on the elegant Via Giulia. Pope Julius II commissioned Bramante to design a...
The Town House Galleria aims for "seven star" status—whatever that means—and despite the stiff rates, the hotel certainly scores...
This sixteenth-century ten-bedroom property outside the town of Greve provides a comfortable and affordable base to explore one of Tuscany's...
A nineteenth-century farm estate in the heart of Le Langhe in Piedmont, arguably Italy's best eating and wine-drinking region, the meticulously...
Located across the Quirinal Gardens from the President's Palace, this superbly restored neoclassic mansion, owned and run by Count Gian Giacomo...
Housed in the former headquarters of the Ulster Bank, The Merchant one-ups Belfast's other boutique hotels with its private-club vibe, the best...
Steps from the Rynek Glowny, the Old Town's magnificent medieval square, the 53-room Stary Hotel was created from a fifteenth-century town house,...
Though he's the man behind the louche looks of Paris's Buddha Bar and London's Strictly Hush, Portuguese architect Miguel Câncio Martins has...
Occupying a handsome nineteenth-century stone building on George Street, Le Monde pulls off its design premise—leach of the 18 rooms is themed...
When this hotel overlooking Palma de Mallorca—originally a private palace dating to the thirteenth century—first opened in 1961, it was an...
Swedish hoteliers Johanna and Mikael Landström have bull's-eyed every detail in their reinvention of this 1954 vintage seaside property,...
After the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, superstar architect Frank Gehry's second most famous Spanish project is nestled in the wine-making Rioja region...
This small town in the Garrotxa National Park, two hours north of Barcelona, is home to one of Europe's most unusual accommodations. With only...
Sol Meliía's new high-design brand makes a bold statement with its first property, ME Madrid. The palatial white building in Plaza Santa Ana...
This 1844 grande dame on the banks of the Rhine reopened last spring following a 20-month renovation, and once again it's the most prominent...
Dramatically perched on a rock shelf over-looking the stylish Alpine village of Zermatt, the 30-room Omnia coins a new idiom for sky-high Swiss...
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