Hotel Una: Brighton’s Artistic Soul with a Seaside Side-Glance
Handcrafted detail, curated objects, and contemporary warmth in Regency Square.
A Reinvention on Brighton’s Creative Coastline
Hotel Una is what happens when a boutique hotel is authored — not developed. Set in Regency Square, with the seafront just steps away, this address channels Brighton’s cultural identity: bohemian, design-literate, spontaneous, and quietly rebellious. No corporate concepting — just instinctive taste.
Where Heritage Gets a Glow-Up
The owner and her architect husband built this place as a personal project — you feel it instantly. Modern art pieces, sculptural lighting, raw woods, handmade furniture — spaces that feel like a gallery, but with the softness of a lived-in home. Driftwood installations, stripped floorboards, unique objects — each room becomes its own micro-world — intimate, tactile, photogenic.
The Vibe: Creative Calm with a Strong Pour
The bar is small, but cult — not in the scene sense, but in the connoisseur sense. Cocktails, whiskeys, cognacs, gins, champagnes — curated with the same eye as the furniture. It’s not performatively exclusive — just quietly confident. This is the art crowd’s answer to a lobby.
Design with Personality
Location delivers balance — in the centre of it all, but never drowning in it. You’re close to the promenade, close to the independent spirit of the North Laine — but the hotel itself carries a stillness that gives you back your mental space. Front rooms catch flashes of sea — enough to anchor you in Brighton, without the clichés.
DNA Hotels Verdict
Hotel Una proves that boutique design is most powerful when it comes from personal vision — not trend-chasing. An address with soul, with curation, with genuine creative intelligence.
