Where Design Defines the Experience
This is the heart of DNA Hotels. A design-led hotel doesn’t have to be created by a famous architect or interior designer—it can be carefully designed from the ground up or have evolved organically over decades. What matters is that everything feels connected: architecture, interiors, furniture, materials, light and atmosphere. These are hotels with a clear point of view, where design isn’t decoration or a marketing label, but part of the character of the place and the way you experience it.
Set in Mexico City’s fascinating Roma neighbourhood, Brick Hotel fuses the best in contemporary luxury with atmospheric Belle Époque architecture. Constructed from English bricks, the mansion was originally a grand home for the first manager of the Bank of London & Mexico.
read moreCowley Manor Experimental - Cotswolds, England Where English country-house heritage meets Parisian playfulness. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● A 19th-century Italianate manor reinvented by Experimental Group, with Dorothée Meilichzon bringing her unmistakable mix of colour, pattern and playful sophistication to the English countryside. ● Subtle Alice in Wonderland references run through the interiors, from…
read moreLocated in the heart of Dublin Docklands, next to the 3Arena on the River Liffey, The Mayson is a boutique-style property. One of Dublin’s most modern and architecturally striking hotels it is set in two historic buildings on North Wall Quay (one a public house from 1860 and and one warehouse from 1870).
read moreLocated among the dunes of North Holland’s Castricum beach, Strandhotel (beach hotel) Zoomers is a stunning creative collaboration between Dutch interior brand HKliving and the property; the design-led concept born this year to offer guests a slow pace of life amid nature and the bracing coast.
read moreIn Paris’ 8th arrondissement is Monsieur George Hôtel, a five-star boutique hotel at 17 rue Washington. Steps from the Champs-Élysées, the luxury hotel was crafted by famed British designer and indisputably chic style icon Anouska Hempel.
read moreThe sister hotel to Georgia’s first design hotel in the Caucasus mountains, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi is located in the Georgian capital. The property is set in an industrial Soviet-era publishing house- a nostalgic remnant of Vera, the intellectual neighbourhood it inhabits.
read moreSet in a historic building from 1886 that once functioned as a girls orphanage, hostel and party palace, Hotel Arena now features a tranquil, priste white Dutch minimalist design meeting 1970s retro, with occasional period touches (grand wrought-iron stairways, remnants of 19th-century patterned wall paintings). illuminating vintage and bespoke furnishings.
read moreLocated in Basel’s car-free Old Town, ART HOUSE is a boutique design hotel set behind a black stone façade which houses rotating exhibitions that lean toward emerging street artists. Onyx stone, raw concrete, black steel, terrazzo, and oak wood set a Japanese-inspired scene for furniture pieces by big international names, like Vitra, Abacus, Artek, Santa & Cole, KNS, and Living Divani.
read morePensão Favorita is a hip hotel, located in a restored historical building in Porto’s arts district in the city centre. The interiors feature an assemblage of vintage pieces mixed with modern furniture, and the hotel’s structural transformation was orchestrated by a local architect. Result is a low-key bohemian ambiance. Within short distance you will find numerous galleries and unique designer shops.
read moreGrupo Habita has done it again. Here in its hometown, Mexico’s trailblazing boutique hotels chain have reimagined a 19th century residential building, housing a modern ground floor marketplace, 18 guestrooms and seven suites. Crowning the property is a rooftop bar and restaurant, combining al fresco dining with sweeping vistas.
read moreHoused in the former Danish Post and Telegraph office from 1912, adjacent to the central railway station and Tivoli Gardens, the Villa Copenhagen is a Grande Dame hotel for the 21st century.
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