The Arty Hotels To Stay at Around the World

Taking its inspiration from Miami Modern architecture (known as MiMo), the Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel is the latest resort addition to Ibiza’s San Antonio Bay. With its pastel pink hue, mixture of futuristic and Art Deco design, and contemporary art throughout, this adult-only boutique hotel needs to be on your Ibiza bucket list. Exclusive Arty Parties, which mix art, fashion and music, will be held during the season as well as monthly micro-residencies with international artists in the glass-walled Zero Suite, so guests can see the creative process in action.

Exuding tranquil Scandinavian calm, your experience of At Six will be punctuated with selected artworks by leading contemporary artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Julian Opie and Richard Long. Specially commissioned for the hotel, Jaume Plensa’s optical sculpture Mar Whispering (2017) greets you in the lobby and a giant Tacita Dean photogravure of an icy landscape hangs above reception. A series of rare prints by the American Minimalist Sol LeWitt compliment the Modernist furniture in the lounge areas. And in the bedrooms, Swedish artist Kristina Matousch has created a series of subtle mirror-based works.

The Walled Off Hotel might say that it has “the worst view of any hotel in the world”, but that shouldn’t put anyone off as this is the genius creation of famed graffiti artist Banksy. As you might imagine, works by the elusive British artist feature throughout this unusual Bethlehem hotel, which is both a parody of London’s Waldorf Hotel as well as a clever comment on tourism due to its close proximity to the Israeli West Bank barrier. The Piano Bar is filled with surveillance cameras mounted like hunting trophies, and one of the bedrooms has a Banksy painting of an Israeli border policeman and a Palestinian having a pillow fight.

Located in the Faena District, the Faena Hotel Miami Beach, formerly the Saxony Hotel, is at the centre of this cultural neighbourhood that stretches between the Atlantic beachfront and Indian Creek. The five-star luxury hotel, with its 169 guest rooms, comes from the stable of Argentine hotelier Alan Faena, and is the perfect combination of decadent design and stylish sophistication. Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and costume designer Catherine Martin, a husband-and-wife partnership, envisioned the opulent grandeur that recalls the hotel’s hedonistic days when it was a hang-out for Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. And to compliment that, art is prevalent throughout, with particular highlights including multiple murals by Argentinian artist Juan Gatti and Damien Hirst sculptures – the latter’s ginormous 24-carat gilded skeleton of a woolly mammoth graces the hotel’s gardens. This is where the extraordinary happens; where fantasy becomes reality. You enjoy the delectable food by award-winning chefs at Los Fuegos or Pao, relax in the sublime sanctuary of Tierra Santa Healing House – which has the largest hammams on the East Coast – take a dip in the palm-lined pool, experience golden-age glamour in the Saxony Bar and end the evening with a cabaret performance in the hotel’s very own theatre.

Antony Gormley’s ROOM at The Beaumont gives this five-star Art Deco-styled boutique hotel a contemporary twist. The inhabitable sculpture was commissioned as a piece of public art but also houses a one-bedroom suite. Inside the crouching cuboid figure is an oak-clad bedroom and pure white marble bathroom. “My ambition for ROOM is that it should confront the monumental with the most personal, intimate experience,” said Gormley of this quirky extension for the first hotel from Jeremy King and Chris Corbin of The Wolseley fame.

Looking for the perfect romantic pied-à-terre next time you’re in Paris? Well, look no further than this sumptuous boutique hotel in the Haut Marais. Formerly a bakery, this 17-room hotel has been transformed into a little haven of splendour by fashion designer Christian Lacroix. “It brings to mind a doll’s house or those cross sections of buildings you might see in 20th-century encyclopaedias, with very different atmospheres from one floor to the next,” Lacroix has said of this 17th-century building. Each room has been lavishly designed with exuberant fabrics, exceptional wallpaper, vintage furnishings and trompe l’oeil paintings to create distinctively different spaces.

You’ll never want to leave this luxury hotel resort on the east coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Once Pablo Escobar’s hideaway, the mansion has been renovated by New York art collector Lio Malca to create a truly idyllic getaway. Throughout the 42 beach suites and hotel, you’ll encounter many valuable artworks from Malca’s collection, including a sculpture by KAWS, an immersive print by Keith Haring in the bar and multiple kaleidoscopic Holton Rower pieces.

21c Museum Hotels has transformed the historic Savoy Hotel and Grill in Kansas City for their eighth North American location. Specifically dedicated to collecting and exhibiting 21st-century art, the new edition opened with a showcase of site-specific commissions responding to the location’s architecture and history, as well as exhibition Refuge. The show, which is running for a year, looks at contemporary migration through the work of 54 artists, including JR, Hew Locke and Mohau Modisakeng. Designed by New York architects Deborah Berke Partners with Kansas City architects Hufft Projects, the hotel provides the Library District with a new multi-purpose arts venue that supports local talent as well as international names.

Quite literally wanting to rob you of the mundanity of daily life, The Thief draws on the heritage of its location – an island notorious its criminals inhabitants in the 18th century – to offer guests a retreat where contemporary art, cutting-edge design and delectable gastronomy coexist. The permanent collection boasts an impressive line-up of artists, including Sir Peter Blake, Richard Prince and Sir Tony Cragg along with emerging talent. Keep an eye out for Queen Sonja of Norway’s photographs in the library. And should you need more of an art fix, pop next door to the Renzo Piano-designed Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, where guests get free access because the hotel’s owner Petter A Stordalen is a patron.