Vacationing Is a Work of Art I 10 Of The World's Best Art Hotels

At the heart of Morocco’s spirited Red City lies IZZA Marrakech: a brand new art hotel with a collection worth £5 million. Taking eight years to complete, IZZA is an ode to interior designer Bill Willis who designed Yves Saint Laurent’s glorious electric blue and gold Marrakech home, Le Jardin Majorelle. Finding more serene colour palettes inside, IZZA's sun-coated walls are decked with 300 framed art pieces, making it one of the largest digital and generative art collections in the world. Included are pieces by Ethiopian NFT artist Yatreda and 24 prints from Sebastian Selgado’s Amazonia NFT release at Sotheby’s. Culturally enriching as well as a calming haven, the bedrooms are homage to the city’s impressive guests of the 60s, 70 and 80s, including Marianne Faithful, Grace Jones and Jimi Hendrix. Each of the 14 rooms are designed with a slightly varying taste to suit the icon they are named after. Gemma Louise Deeks.

NoMad London, a World's 50 Best Hotel, takes residence inside the historic, grade II-listed building famously known as The Bow Street Magistrates’ Court and Police Station. A collaboration with New York-based interior design studio Roman and Williams, the transformation of the storied 19th century building draws inspiration from its history and location in Covent Garden, as well as exploring the artistic and cultural connection between London and New York.

Check in at The Dolder Grand, not only for the rooms and facilities, but also for the art. Here you’ll find some extraordinary artworks from Andy Warhol, Dalí and Botero, including Botero’s sculpture, Woman With Fruit next to the outdoor jacuzzi; a huge Joan Miró statue, Grand Personnage: Projet Pour Un Monument, just outside the bar, and an enormous work by Andy Warhol: Big Retrospective Painting, above the reception. The hotel grounds are also studded with sculptures; look out for Takashi Murakami’s whimsical Troll’s Umbrella and a Henry Moore three-piece, Reclining Figure. This is also one of the world’s most historic hotels, redesigned by Sir Norman Foster, making it a gallery-like place to stay as well as an architectural marvel. Hannah Lynn Tan.

The Silo is a sanctuary in the city celebrating art, style, and design. This architectural masterpiece towers above the V&A Waterfront and is defined by its shimmering pillowed-glass windows which offer panoramic views stretching from Table Mountain to the Table Bay harbour. Our luxury accommodation occupies six floors above the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) which houses Africa’s largest collection of contemporary African art.

In the early 1920s, La Colombe d’Or was an open-air café-bar. Noticing its popularity, Paul, the owner, re-branded and opened as a three-bedroom inn. It soon became a favourite with artists, who visited, in part, because of Paul’s love, interest, and support of the arts. Many of the artists were offered a room for the night in return for some of their artwork – the inn walls soon evolving into a gallery of their own. As the south of France became an ever more popular place for free-thinkers, word of La Colombe d’Or spread, leading celebrated artists such as Miró, Braque, Chagall and Matisse to its doors. Today, a mural by Legér surveys the terrace, a Miró bathes poolside, and a César Baldaccini sculpture greets diners where you can sample fresh fish under a Picasso, in one of the best restaurants on the French Riviera. Sheena Bhattessa.