Red is not a subtle colour. No one plays safe wearing red. Red spells danger and excitement. Those that dress in red like to stand out from the crowd - and that goes for hotels as well as people. Red is for hotels that dare you to stare. So wearing rouge-tinted glasses we pay homage to the boutique hotels that understand the cool of crimson, the sex-appeal of scarlet and the sheer fabulousness of fire-engine red. www.designhotels.com
Singapore's New Majestic Hotel, located in the heart of Chinatown, is a stimulating brew of local culture, art and design that pries apart the moulds of convention.
Loh Lik Peng, owner of Wanderlust, located in Singapore's Little India (and New Majestic), thinks the best hotels are playgrounds for adults and took on four different design firms to each create a floor.
Divided into 26 suite/studio cabins, The Library in Koh Samui avoids the monolithic hotel-complex look, scattering discreet buildings in lush vegetation.
Conceived under the creative and whimsical direction of Wanders & yoo, Mira Moon combines shapes and colors of the ancient China's Moon Festival fairytale with 21st century comfort and technology.
With one-of-a-kind furnishings, paintings and sculptures created by Julian Schnabel, the Gramercy Park Hotel is more than a luxury hotel, it's a work of art.
In two hectares of private landscape, facing the bay of Porto-Vecchio on Corsica's spectacular south coast, Casadelmar is a hotel of fine luxury and elegant leisure.
In the chandelier-studded lobby of Hotel Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort, an elegant retreat just five minutesÂ’ walk from the center of Kitzbühel, the beauty of the Austrian Alps is all around you.
