Hotel Lobbies We Could Live In

As fashionable as the city itself, Hotel Viu Milan’s lobby is like visiting the refined home of your most stylish friend. Outfitted in bespoke furniture, framed by neutral fabrics and dark wood, and flooded in natural light from floor-to-ceiling windows, it delivers an understated luxury that is upscale yet welcoming, inviting even the most sophisticated of guests to feel at ease to sit back and relax.

Reflecting its location in West Hollywood’s Design District, Kimpton La Peer is a design-centric hotel embracing the tasteful yet laid-back style of this walkable neighborhood. Its lobby acts as a large community living room, complete with oversized sofas, potted plants and contemporary art hanging. Add to that handcrafted cocktails and it’s the ideal place to cap off a day spent browsing the nearby boutiques and galleries.

A French-inspired boutique hotel in the Östermalm district, The Sparrow Hotel is like coming home to your very own pied-à-terre in the middle of Stockholm. Beyond its charming fin de siècle façade are warm and intimate interiors exuding the ambiance of a private residence, including a street-level lobby where one can rest awhile and watch the vibrant city’s comings and goings.

Designer Kelly Wearstler scoured vintage shops to add a beachy flair to Santa Monica Proper Hotel’s living room-style lobby, which doubles as the hotel’s all-day dining restaurant, Palma. The unconventional furniture, combined with greenery work together to create a relaxed atmosphere. Within this large space are a mix of settings catering to every scenario—sofa nooks for lounging in, a bar for drinking at and various tables and chairs for working and socializing.

Inspired by nature and built using reclaimed materials, 1 Hotel Central Park’s ground-breaking design, which includes a one-of-a-kind lobby, brings the outdoors inside. This LEED-certified hotel’s lobby lounge, decorated in hanging Kokodema, live-edge woods and green planters, offers a calm and casual reprieve from which guests can escape the hustle and bustle of Manhattan.

Formerly a postal sorting office, the building in which Brach resides in was transformed by iconic designer Philippe Stark, who drew from many design and cultural influences to create a hotel full of personality. Under a ceiling covered by a canvas painting and brimming with artful objects and unique furniture, the lobby is a warm and eclectic space thoughtfully designed for guests to spend time in.

Named after Abigail Scott Duniway, a champion for social justice and pioneer who braved the trail to Oregon, The Duniway Portland is dressed in interiors befitting the rich, local history. Part reception and part cocktail bar, its lobby is designed as a gathering space, decked in earth tones, accents of steel and brass, and a mix of furniture inspired by Portland’s natural backdrop, industrial roots and unfussy attitude.

Just steps from Music Row and home to writers’ studios and a live music venue, Hutton Hotel’s lobby lounge feeds off Nashville’s creative culture. Spacious and contemporary, with a rock-and-roll edge, the lofty lounge is outfitted in leather furniture in neutral browns and pops of color, creating a sophisticated yet casual space for guests to lay back and get comfy in, just like one would in the studio.

Occupying a neo-Georgian building in the heart of Brisbane’s CBD, Ovolo Inchcolm radiates a Bohemian vibe inspired by Gertrude Stein’s Paris salon, where Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso, Banksy, Lennon and Bowie rubbed shoulders and shared ideas. Its lobby indeed does lead into a salon, full of artistic style and character, where guests can stay all day and dream up their own next great ideas.

On the outside, Tivoli Sao Paulo Mofarrej is a typical high-rise building, but on the inside, it’s a sanctuary from the busy city. In a greenhouse-like space looking out to the hotel’s tropical gardens, its lobby is an oasis where guests can lounge under the sun while hidden from the world. Soft chairs and a bar an arm’s reach away provide all that is needed to unwind here, while the garden pool—another oasis—is just steps outside.