The Robert Miami
Miami, United States
The Robert sits in downtown Miami and treats its walls as working gallery space rather than decoration. Exhibitions change. A guest who returns after a season will not find the same lobby they left, and that is the point of the place.
Rooms are bright and deliberately plain — pale surfaces, clean lines, little competing with whatever is hanging. The rooftop pool deck looks across the Biscayne Bay side of the city, and it stays busy in the late afternoon.
Its position suits anyone moving between the arts districts. Wynwood, the Design District and the Pérez Art Museum are all short rides north or east, which makes the hotel a reasonable base for a few days of looking at things.
Casa Cook Rhodes
Rhodes, Greece
Casa Cook Rhodes reads as a single low structure stepped down toward the sea, and the design is the property's argument. Rough render, timber, planted terraces, almost no hard edges above two storeys.
Most rooms open onto their own shaded terrace, many with a private or shared plunge pool. Interiors lean on craft objects and woven textiles rather than framed pictures — the art here is in how the building is made, not in what hangs on it.
Adults-only, quiet by design, and set directly on the beach at Kolymbia on the island's east coast. Guests tend to use it as a place to stay put, with the town of Rhodes reachable when a change of scene is wanted.
Fasano Boa Vista
São Paulo, Brazil
Fasano Boa Vista stands on a large estate in the countryside outside São Paulo, roughly an hour and a half from the city. The main building is unapologetically modernist: long horizontals, deep overhangs, concrete and glass opening onto lawns.
The interiors follow mid-century Brazilian design closely, with furniture and finishes chosen to sit in that tradition rather than reference it loosely. It is a considered piece of architecture that happens to take guests.
There is a golf course, riding stables and a spa on the grounds. Days here are slow by arrangement — the estate is large enough that most guests never leave it during a short stay.