Willows LodgeWillows Lodge’s location, on the eastern edge of the Seattle suburbs (not far from a little town called Redmond) makes it an obvious choice for (...)
Widder HotelThrow out the stereotypes about Zurich and its stuffy bankers and chocolate shops—the Widder defies all these with strikingly inventive design, while (...)
Waters Edge HotelThis may be San Francisco Bay — Tiburon is located on the north side of the Golden Gate, just around Richardson Bay from Sausalito — but there’s (...)
Watermark Hotel & SpaThere’s more to San Antonio than just the Alamo. Deep in the heart of Texas though it may be, the Watermark Hotel & Spa is an international-caliber (...)
W Union SquareSure, there’s a family resemblance with the other W hotels, but this one, fittingly for a hotel on Park Avenue South, feels a bit more old-money than (...)
W South BeachIt’s hard to think of a W hotel whose opening was this big a deal. It’s not as though Miami had a shortage of hotel rooms, but the W seems to have (...)
W Times SquareIt’s by now habitual to expect the worst of Times Square, as years of concerted effort have shaped it into a style-free zone, hammering out everything (...)
W SeattleAt the height of the WTO riots, two guests at the W Seattle decided to get married… with one day’s notice. As there were no judges, justices, or (...)
W ScottsdaleIf you haven’t been paying attention to Scottsdale you might be surprised to find its demographics have shifted a bit. What was once a haven for upscale (...)
W Retreat & Spa MaldivesEverybody knows the W hotels as the chain that took the concept of the “design boutique” mainstream, with a series of stylish properties, mostly in (...)
W MontrealMontreal takes pride in its reputation as North America’s most fun city — so it’s only natural that here you would find a classic old bank building (...)
W Hong KongHigh-design style with luxury-hotel trimmings — that’s what the W hotels are all about, and nowhere is it more evident than the W Hong Kong, a riot of (...)
W DohaBy now you’re probably prepared to see a W cropping up just about anywhere, but Doha? How, quite frankly, is the high-design luxury chain’s whole (...)
VitrumThere’s no shortage of boutique hotels in Palermo Viejo, widely considered to be Buenos Aires’ most fashion-forward barrio. There is, however, a (...)
Vintage Design Hotel SaxPrague 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 (...)
Villa Spalletti TrivelliYou wouldn’t believe how hard it is not to resort to clichéd phrases like “La Dolce Vita.” See, there we’ve gone and said it again. But it’s (...)
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