This U.S. hotel was just named one of the World's Most Beautiful by Prix Versailles
Announced this week from the fancy folks at Prix Versailles, the 2025 " World's Most Beautiful Hotels" list looks at newly opened or reopened hotels with an eye towards design and architecture. And on this very curated list of only 16 hotels throughout the world—spanning international stunners like the Todos Santos Boutique Hotel in Mexico, the Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab in Dubai, UAE and the Hotel du Couvent in Nice, France—only one picturesque U.S. property made the rankings.
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Meet: The Manner hotel in New York City wins. The Manner opened in September 2024 in SoHo, a neighborhood with a history of housing artists in an area with distinctive cast iron architecture. Inside the property, artsy furnishings and color choices dazzle the eye. Milan-based architecture Hannes Peer designed the rooms to pay homage to Italy, with tones of ochre, blue and sand contrasting with dark wood, blood red and navy.
The furniture is handmade and the artwork on display was crafted by Nicholas Shurey, Giovanni de Francesco and Alex Proba. Murals commissioned from Elvira Solana were painted by her on canvas at her studio in Madrid and then rolled up and shipped to New York for installation in the hotel's Otter Restaurant. They are beautiful muted-palette evocations of New York history, such as one panel that shows the face of the Statue of Liberty being prepared. The murals completely wrap around the windowless restaurant.
Other Prix Versailles winning hotels can be found in London, Munich, Singapore and more. Perhaps not surprisingly, two hotels are located in Rome. The only other country with two hotels on the prestigious list is France, with one in Nice and one in Paris proper. The Prix Versailles has been around since 2015, acknowledging design and architecture of structures throughout the world, including this most recent look at beautiful museums.
Here is the full 2025 list of the World's Most Beautiful Hotels:
1. Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2. Mandarin Oriental Qianmen: Beijing, China
3. Rosewood Munich: Munich, Germany
4. Al Moudira: Luxor, Egypt
5. Hôtel du Couvent: Nice, France
6. Hôtel Hana: Paris, France
7. Mandarin Oriental Mayfair: London, United Kingdom
8. Ran Baas The Palace: Patiala, India
9. Palazzo Talìa: Rome, Italy
10. Romeo Roma: Rome, Italy
11. MGallery Sosei Sapporo: Sapporo, Japan
12. Todos Santos Boutique Hotel: Todos Santos, Mexico
13. Shebara: Sheybarah Island, Saudi Arabia
14. Raffles Sentosa Singapore: Singapore, Singapore
15. The Manner: New York, United States
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