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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.

SO/ Vienna
SO/ Vienna Hotel

SO/ Vienna
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SO/ Vienna is a cutting-edge design hotel by Jean Nouvel. No Art Nouveau or Wiener Schnitzel here, but sleek and minimal guestrooms, floating cantilver roofs, video-animated ceilings and a magnificent vertical garden.

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Hotel Rathaus – Wein & Design
Hotel Rathaus Wein & Design | Vienna

Hotel Rathaus – Wein & Design
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An unusual hotel concept in Austria’s capital, Vienna. The Hotel Rathaus – Wine & Design represents the Fleischhaker family’s pleasure concept with its vinophile philosophy. At every step you will be confronted by the theme of wine in the modern design hotel: the wine cheese on the breakfast buffet, the wine guglhupf with your coffee, the wine cosmetics in your room, etc.

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Lloyd’s Inn Singapore
Lloyd's Inn Singapore

Lloyd’s Inn Singapore
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Lloyd’s Inn is a stylish boutique hotel with minimalist interiors of raw concrete, which juxtapose nicely with the verdant lawns, trees and shrubs outside. The hotel offers a garden deck and mosaic-tiled dipping pool. Located off Singapore’s Killiney Road in a quiet residential area, Lloyd’s Inn is a short 10-minute walk to the shopping and entertainment district of Orchard Road.

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The Warehouse Hotel
Warehouse Hotel Singapore

The Warehouse Hotel
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Set in a -you guessed it- former “godown” (or warehouse) from 1895 directly on the Singapore River, the Warehouse Hotel is a stylish hotel featuring sleek industrial design – exposed brick walls, original beams, double height ceilings, acres of polished concrete.

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PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering Singapore

PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering
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PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering is a large luxury hotel, located opposite Hong Lim Park in Singapore’s business district, a few minutes’ walk to Chinatown and Raffles Place. Despite its busy location, the hotel is an oasis of calm partly to the four-storey, 15,000m2 sky garden.

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Hotel Mono

Hotel Mono
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Built out of six remodeled historical shop houses, Hotel Mono is an all black and white (and a shade of gray) design boutique hotel located in Singapore’s Chinatown. A minimalist’s dream.

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Octant Hotels Furnas

Octant Hotels Furnas
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Octant Hotels Furnas | São Miguel, Azores | Portugal A geothermal retreat where volcanic landscape, thermal water, and contemporary design converge in the lush Furnas crater Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Built around the former Furnas Thermal Center, the hotel turns São Miguel’s geothermal landscape into part of the architecture rather than simply a…

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design-led hotel eco & sustainability luxury hotel nature pets allowed vibe: quiet wheelchair accessible
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Kosenda Hotel
Kosenda Hotel | Jakarta

Kosenda Hotel
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A contemporary boutique hotel that fuses traditional Indonesian Betawi houses and modernist Danish furniture is not what comes to mind thinking of Jakarta, but it is exactly what the Kosenda Hotel does. And there is plenty of natural wood giving the hotel a warm feel.

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The Dean Dublin Centre
The Dean Dublin Centre

The Dean Dublin Centre
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The Dean is a hip boutique design hotel, located in Dublin’s city centre, right on Harcourt Street – bars, restaurants and clubs aplenty.

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Grand Ferdinand Vienna
Grand Ferdinand | Vienna

Grand Ferdinand Vienna
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Grand Ferdinand Vienna is a luxury hotel with a twist. It is located in the city center on the prestigious Ringstraße boulevard, with other grand luxury (albeit traditional) hotels as neighbours. The Vienna State Opera is a 5-minute walk and the St. Stephen’s Cathedral is a 10-minute walk. The hotel is set in a 1950s building and boats original contemporary interiors with commissioned chandeliers made by Vienna glassmaker Lobmeyr and round, leather-rimmed, mirrors by Gubi in the style of Jacques Adnet.

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bar culture design-led hotel eco & sustainability LHBTIQA+ lifestyle & creative hotel luxury hotel pets allowed rooftop bar vibe: social wheelchair accessible
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Entre Cielos
Entre Cielos | Vistalba, Argentina

Entre Cielos
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Entre Cielos Wine Hotel & Spa | Luján de Cuyo, Argentina Modern Wine Country Beneath the Andes Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● A contemporary vineyard retreat that replaces rustic wine-country clichés with bold modern architecture and minimalist design. ● Home to the iconic Vineyard Loft Suite, where guests sleep suspended above the vines with…

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