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There are countless so called 'Art Hotels' out there, but excusing the pun, this doesn't brush with us. Our cultural edit of hotel includes selected art hotels that are owned by some of the largest and well-known collectors around – they have over the generations and years curated their personal collections of paintings, sculptures and installations, and are opening them to the world in their bespoke establishments.
These art hotels go beyond the trend for hanging a few wall fillers in modern hotels and calling themselves an 'art establishment' - our hotels are more like sleeping in an east-side gallery, perfect, at least, if art makes your heart tick one beat faster.
The edgy contrast of an aged coaching inn where artsy installations lend an air of east-side gallery – this is a cradle of the arts and style where a bold, contemporary curatorial scene is flanked by twisted beams and heritage-thick walls.
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The Hirschen "Young since 1755", is a love pot of heritage, art, culture, food and style – a Wunderkammer of familiar nostalgia reframed for the nomads who seek roots and prefer to sleep with history.
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The fabulous boutique Hotel Julien, with its mansion-house pedigree in the heartlands of old-town Antwerp, is a self-confessed curator of the arts, designer pieces, antiques and mid-century furnishings, which adorn the handsome salons and rooms in comfy elegance.
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Unapologetically vivid, this preferred pad of intellect and creativity is awash in Art Nouveau flamboyance tamed with clever 1950s-inspired design interventions. A stylishly cool home of the arts, brushed with boldness.
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Definitely off-radar, ‘an insider’s boho art den’ best describes this series of lavish apartments, suites and rooms dressed in a plush melange of period styles, furnishings and artistic installations. This discreet little number is famed by writers, artists, actors and thinkers alike.
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Contemporary art continues to find its way into the Alpine villages of Engadin – surely, a reflection of the cosmopolitan and cultured crowd that seizes upon these rural locales each holiday season.
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A photography exhibition 'Messner meets Messner' by Lumen opens this winter at the heart of the South Tyrolean Mountains and Dolomites on the top of Mount Kronplatz.
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Crossing Condotti is a style colony of luxury suites, lavish apartments and designer penthouse living created within 18th-century palazzo townhouse, which poignantly resides behind the Piazza di Spagna and namesake, Via Condotti, in the heart of Rome’s historic Tridente district.
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An historic institution of bohemian flair and surrealist imaginings, Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire ensconces the art world, Dada movement and night club vibes.
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The Kunsthaus Zürich is celebrating the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, an artist whose contribution to painting was initially labeled as ‘degenerate’ – surely a badge of honour in hindsight.
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Arts and the Alps is an alluring combo - so next time in the Engadin Valley, St. Moritz, pop into Vito Schnabel’s Art Gallery in the Clouds for a cultural rest-bite from hiking & ski.
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Ahrenshoop is a little, yet longstanding artist's village by Germany's Baltic Sea. Follow the art trail, go for a swim or just soak up some of its phenomenal light.
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Turrell’s latest skyspace is such an iteration, located in Lech, a little skiing town in the Arlberg mountains, Austria. At a height of almost 1800 meters above sea-level, The Skyspace-Lech, a lightroom inside a stone building at the end of a 15-metre tunnel, is set in alpine terrain, and is only accessible by foot or by skiing – so wear your walking shoes and your best raincoat.
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The von Bartha art gallery in the little town of S-chanf, high up in Switzerland's Engadin Mountains, is the perfect cultural stop-off for skiers whizzing by.
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A combination of country house familiarity and urban chill. A designer orchestration of salvaged pieces, crafted textiles, aged ceramics and bespoke furnishings that are housed in a traditional red-brick new build – this new luxury kid on the block gives TriBeCa the unpretentious grand hotel it so craved.
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The Greek island of Tinos is fast becoming the Cyclades' hidden art destination - from heritage crafts to hotel bastions of style and design.
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MART is Italy's bastion of art and architecture, designed by Mario Botta and filled to the brim with the most important pieces ever created, from Warhol to Picasso.
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