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.
The Myst Dong Khoi is a design hotel which intrigues with its irregular façade with oddly shaped and unevenly spaced windows. It is located in Ho Chi Minh’s (commonly known as Saigon) District 1, just a few minutes’ walk from the Mekong Riverside.
read moreFinca Serena | Montuïri, Mallorca | Spain A 13th-century finca where restrained design, agricultural rhythm, and deep calm define the stay Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Architect Sergi Bastidas and interior designer Pilar Garcia-Nieto preserve the finca’s historic stone structures while introducing a quiet, contemporary language of lime, polished cement, wood, linen, wicker, and…
read moreLocated on a quiet, residential “sois” off Bangkok’s busy Sukhumvit Road, IR-ON is an industrial chic boutique hotel. Sexy rooms come with open plan shower rooms (some with tub), king size or twin beds, a flat-screen TV and a safe. The suite has a rooftop garden. There is a lobby with a café and the first floor common room is the perfect place for hotel’s guest as all in one a library, co-working space plus relaxing area.
read moreA truly intimate and authentic alternative to the slick high-rise international hotels of Bangkok, Siamotif is a boho-chic boutique hotel located along the Bangkok Noi Canal. It offers nine colourful, individually designed guest rooms (some with canal views) which come with air conditioning, a flat-screen TV and a refrigerator. There is a restaurant on-site.
read morePrague is a city that, for various world-historical reasons, sat out the heyday of Fifties and Sixties modernism. So when a hotel like the Vintage Design Hotel Sax ventures down the retro-modernist road, it does so with a special vigor. A couple of present-day Czech architects have transformed this centuries-old building into a boutique-hotel fantasy, almost a movie-set world full of vivid colors, bold prints, and classics of mid-century furniture design.
read moreBuddha-Bar Hotel is a seductive, luxury boutique hotel located in the vibrant heart of Prague, close to Old Town Square and the fashionable Parizska shopping street.
read moreThe debut of the 306-room B Hotel in Brasília was always going to be something of a marquee event, if not homecoming, not least because Isay Weinfeld had been tapped for both the architecture and interiors.
read moreSet in a 19th-century former private mansion in the heart of Bordeaux’s historic centre, Ynd? Hôtel is a designer boutique hotel with an artistic edge offering an intimate atmosphere. The property’s location, next to Gambetta Square and Cours de l’Intendance, makes it a perfect base to discover the wine city.
read moreBlossom House Prince Kung's Mansion Beijing Houhai – ChinaA cluster of 1950s buildings beside Houhai Lake, radically reworked by Ministry of Design to explore what contemporary Chinese heritage can be. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Singapore-based Ministry of Design transformed six disparate 1950s buildings into an 80-room hotel rather than erasing them for another…
read moreBnA Art Hotel Koenji | Tokyo, Japan Two artist-designed rooms, a neighbourhood bar, and a radical idea that turns every hotel stay into direct support for Tokyo’s creative community Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Just two rooms, each conceived as a complete artwork by a local artist rather than an interior designer. ● A…
read moreMerging original Art Deco architecture with modern art and avant-garde touches, Ovolo Inchcolm brings a new breed of eclectic style to the Queensland capital.
read more
