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Mid-Atlantic & South22
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Northeast
15 hotels
16 Bay View
Camden's only purpose-built luxury hotel — 21 rooms, harbor views, rooftop bar.
Cliff House Maine
A 1872 oceanfront resort fully rebuilt 2016 — 226 rooms on Bald Head Cliff, family-owned.
Gardiner House
Built 2023 on Lee's Wharf — 14-foot ceilings, harbor-facing terraces, the quietest new hotel in town.
Hammetts Hotel
Harbor-front modernist on Hammetts Wharf — built by the Peabody Properties team, opened 2020.
Hotel Moraine
A new seaside minimalist at the tip of the North Fork. Opened as the regional answer to The Menhaden.
Journey East Hampton
A minimalist motor-lodge revival between East Hampton and Amagansett, playing the Piaule role for the South Fork.
Piaule Catskill
Architect-designed cabins on 50 acres of Catskill forest — the quietest luxury in the region.
Pocketbook Hotel & Baths
2025. A 1890s pocketbook factory rebuilt by Charlap Hyman & Herrero. The baths are the reason.
The Bend Resort
Five adults-only micro-suites on the river. Self-serve luxury.
The Chandler
Newly built White Mountains luxury — the minimalist answer to the region's Victorian resort tradition.
The Lake House on Canandaigua
2020 new-build on Canandaigua Lake — the Finger Lakes' most ambitious design hotel, Condé Nast Hot List 2021.
The Menhaden
Sixteen rooms a block from Greenport Harbor. Michelin Key, rooftop bar, the North Fork's only serious design hotel.
The Roundtree Amagansett
Two acres of former farmland, 21 architect-designed cottages. The quiet luxury option in the loud Hamptons.
Tourists
A 1960s motel reimagined by Wilco's bassist and a Brooklyn design crew. Sea Ranch on the Hoosic River.
Woodstock Way Hotel
Creekside cabins built from scratch in 2018 — Woodstock's quietest boutique, no bar, no restaurant, on purpose.
Mid-Atlantic & South
3 hotels
Kestrel Hotel
Clean-lines modernist in West Philly — quiet, specific, the opposite of the Marriott downtown.
Lokal Hotel
Six mini-apartments in Old City designed by a local creative collective — the best Airbnb-style stay in Philly.
The Lyric Hotel
Alys Beach's all-white architecture in 17 boutique rooms — the design-set's 30A pick.
Mountain West & Southwest
5 hotels
Albert Hotel
A new design-forward boutique on Main Street — 113 rooms, the Hill Country's biggest independent.
Amara Resort & Spa
A modern boutique on Oak Creek's edge — 100 rooms with red-rock views, mid-century-modern aesthetic.
Camel's Garden Hotel
Slope-side at the gondola base — 35 rooms, Bluffs Spa, the only ski-in independent in the village.
Hotel Saint George
Downtown Marfa's modernist anchor — 55 rooms, LaVenture restaurant, a wall-sized Donald Judd.
Ten Thousand Waves
A Japanese onsen spa-hotel in the foothills — 13 suites, Izanami restaurant, outdoor ofuro tubs.
Pacific & West Coast
11 hotels
Carneros Resort and Spa
Eighty-six cottage-style suites on 27 acres of Carneros vineyards — three pools, Hilltop spa.
Cypress Inn at Miramar Beach
Eighteen contemporary rooms on Miramar Beach — adults-only, the Half Moon Bay design-pick.
Friday Harbor House
23 modernist rooms above Friday Harbor — all with fireplaces, view of the ferry landing.
Glen Oaks Big Sur
A 1950s motor court reimagined in 2008 — 19 rooms with private fire pits, redwood-grove cabins.
L'Horizon Resort & Spa
A 1952 William F. Cody motor court restored to mid-century purity — 25 adults-only bungalows.
Mojave Sands
A five-room former 1950s motel reimagined as a design-forward retreat — courtyard pool, cacti.
Poetry Inn
Five suites on a Stags Leap District hilltop — Cliff Lede Vineyards' tiny, all-suite hideaway.
Post Ranch Inn
Mickey Muennig's cliffside icon — 39 rooms, two Michelin Keys, adults-only, the architectural pilgrimage.
The Inn Above Tide
Thirty-one rooms suspended over the Bay — every room has a balcony hovering above the water.
The Society Hotel Bingen
A 1908 schoolhouse converted with cabins and a Japanese-style bathhouse — Columbia Gorge spa-hotel.
Ventana Big Sur
A 243-acre Big Sur ridge resort — 59 rooms, glamping tents, Japanese baths, adults-only.
Islands & Outliers
4 hotelsHotel Wailea
Maui's only adults-only Relais & Chateaux — 72 suites on 15 acres, treetop dining, ocean views.
Lotus Honolulu at Diamond Head
Fifty-one rooms at the foot of Diamond Head — independent, intimate, the quieter Waikiki option.
The Palmwood
Two architect-designed suites in a North Shore residence — the design-set's Kauai Airbnb-alt.
Turtle Bay Resort
Oahu's only North Shore resort — 410 rooms on 1,300 oceanfront acres, recently renovated.