Each room is a mystery: beds seem to float, bathrooms have swings. Shila Athens redefines what it means to be a boutique hotel in the 21st century

Places that were thought and designed as private mansions are transformed into public structures by Gabriele Salini, founder of GS Collection

«Hotels are alive 365 days a year 24 hours a day. Efficient and recycled energy consumption is key to sustainable hospitality». In conversation with architect, Andrea Auletta 

During the Circle of Fire, most evenings, guests are invited by Alves and Fonseca, to join them on the cliff-top dunes, in front of the hotel, for a sing-song around the campfire

A hotel opened since 1997, located in Ravello, between Positano and Vietri. At the entrance a flower cart, on the piano the pink hyacinths, the Creed’s perfumes in the boutique

An opportunity to sleeping inside silos structures, between steel, timber, and engineered glass.In conversation with Nikos Karaflos, the founder of the rural hotel

Interaction with nature is the asset, in the island of metal mines. Serifos: Odysseus and Perseus, Cyclopes lived in its caves

A peninsula on the lake overhanging behind granite heights is the setting for a boutique hotel that makes water its narrative – and for the plot of a novel by Gianni Rodari

Mid-century Danish Modernist furniture and 1944 Hans Wegner J16 Rocking Chairs, which nod to the building’s past as a retirement home

A game-changer for the whole industry located in a 242-hectare protected valley in Canyon Point, where a man-made resort is blended with the remote wilds of the Southwest