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Seventy-eight freestanding beach or overwater villas, each with its own infinity pool, on a private island of soft white sand. Recently named a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the atoll is 35 minutes by seaplane from Male. Thatched-roof luxury, with the lagoon at center stage.

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Classy, quirky, chic and colourful, the Firmdale properties offer a comfortable and relaxed base from which to explore the somewhat frenetic and often frenzied city. There are currently six in Central London (with a new addition, the Dorset Square, due to open next month),

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There’s something fantastic about a well-run bed & breakfast. It feels comfortable, not fussy, and it’s as though some distant relatives are taking care of you while you visit. Casa Talia is this sort of place, and is excellently located in an unexplored part of Sicily.

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When you think about a “top dog” hotel in Italy, the rooms in your mind probably look a lot like the Grand Hotel Timeo. It’s everything you’ve ever dreamed of from a luxury hotel, including large rooms, expansive gardens, and the ruins of a Greek amphitheatre just behind it.

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a stunning 17th-century baroque castle-cum-palatial hotel 40 miles outside Stockholm in a nature reserve. Historic lore suggests that Viking Sote first claimed the Häringe Peninsula as his property in the 11th century. Since then, according to the hotel’s site, “common denominators for all of the owners have been megalomania, extreme wealth, crazy investments, excessive spending, glamour, decadence, scandals and partying.” It has passed through the hands of kings, counts and a few strong-willed, unconventional lasses, who operated illegitimate bars, orphanages and other gender inappropriate endeavors. At one point, all the furnishings were sold by one owner, only to be researched and re-purchased by another one years later.

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A former convent turned spa resort, with 18 guest rooms and views of Mount Subasio. Original details from 1275, revamped with wood beams, terra-cotta floors, and glass walls. Bedrooms combine historic features (religious frescoes, stone arches) with modern comforts (LED reading lights, Mies-style ottomans).

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Two nineteenth-century villas on the Italian Riviera with hilltop views of the Ligurian Sea. The Byzantine-domed Villa della Pergola has large balconies and a sweeping white-marble staircase; the Villino della Pergola resembles an Indian plantation house, with parquet floors and shaded terraces. The showstopper is the two-acre garden, with its wisteria-covered pergolas, little fountains, quiet leafy areas, and climbing roses.

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A five-story, 237-unit hotel built around a lagoon pool on one of the best stretches of the Seminyak shoreline; 76 rooms in the main wing face the sea. The prime location is within walking distance of many of the island’s best new restaurants on booming Jalan Petitenget. Futuristic—more South Beach than Balinese village—with an emphasis on natural woods and gray volcanic stone. The spa is an architectural tour de force, with rounded corners, recessed blue lighting, and the aura of an elegant spaceship.

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A seven-story “business resort” with 101 guest rooms and 19 suites in Bangalore’s affluent IT district. A tropical aesthetic reminiscent of the Aman brand—spare, light, and airy with Balinese overtones.

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An eighteenth-century sponge and silver market converted into a five-room hotel in a landmarked district. Canopied daybeds on the rooftop terrace overlook the neoclassical mansions and oversized yachts of the horseshoe harbor. Decorated with sumptuous silks, carved headboards, and antique prints, each room is inspired by a different trade route: Ottoman, Venetian, Arabian, and Alexandrian. Original flagstone floors and arches blend with modern luxuries (percale linens, rain showers).

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A revamped 1958 landmark (the former Olympic Palace), with 79 rooms in the center of Athens, two blocks from the Parliament. Sexy salvage—Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana mixed reclaimed furniture with contemporary art by Jenny Holzer and Laurie Anderson and their own offbeat designs. Lobby walls are a collage of deconstructed chairs and desks; low-lit corridors are clad in bark cloth; the small spa and gym are coated in glittering PVC, an homage to the basement’s past life as a disco. Bedrooms are sparer, with wall decorations inspired by souvenir shops.

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A distinctively modern 88-room, Nordic-style chalet with ski-in/ski-out access to the Trois Vallées. At 7,545 feet, this is the highest resort in the Alps (translation: great snow). Slick and Scandinavian-inspired, with lots of light-colored natural wood and stone, faux fur, and playful touches (such as the giant snowflake cutouts and stylized reindeer heads mounted on lounge walls). The laid-back bar/library and cozy lounge areas have large sofas and log fires.

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Forty-eight delightfully renovated rooms and suites in a garden-surrounded neoclassical mansion built in 1892 in the elegant sixteenth arrondissement. The hotel is steps from the Place Victor Hugo and a short walk from the Champs-Élysées and the Bois de Boulogne. Rich yet irreverent, Napoleon III whimsically interpreted by British designer Bambi Sloan. Rooms and suites, many with Juliet balconies (aah, Paris), are all individually and boldly decorated in jewel-like colors and with great attention to both comfort and style.

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A 138-room ultramodern palace on the rue St-Honoré. Rooms are plush and technologically state-of-the-art. This luxury hotel for the new millennium has a vaguely Oriental, perceptibly feminine, history-of-modern-fashion aesthetic—no boilerplate faux-château gilt trip here. Behind the Art Deco facade you’ll find a sleek sumptuousness in the all-white dining room by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku, the low-lit bar sculpted from a nine-ton block of gray Spanish marble, and the guest rooms swathed in neutrals with bright flourishes.

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A 57-room high-design aerie conveniently located in a former hôtel particulier almost next door to the Grand and Petit Palais. Black, white, and trompe l’oeil. A serene, playful modernity pervades the public spaces—white slip-covered chairs and sofas whose legs seem to float (they are actually supported by central pedestals); a passageway done entirely in silver foil.

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Rooms with two twin beds. "Thirty-four rooms on a quiet residential street in the sixth arrondissement, steps from the Luxembourg Gardens and St-Germain-des-Prés. Nineteenth-century Paris salon revisited, with touches of mid-century modernism (note the Jens Risom chairs) and oversized Apple monitors. Each floor is inspired by a different chapter in the life of the beautiful Empire–era socialite Juliette Récamier (who was immortalized by the painter Jacques-Louis David) and is adorned with portraits of her closest companions, from her best friend Madame de Staël to her lover Chateaubriand. The relaxing but small rooms are decorated in mauve, lavender, or blue with ornate moldings. The well-appointed bathrooms are tiled with mosaics."

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