An elegant escape in a pastoral setting midway between Paris and Versailles is not the toughest thing to sell. This was as true for Corot and his Impressionist contemporaries as it is for guests of Les Étangs de Corot today, and the hotel bears their influence to this day — three suites are named Impressionniste, Barbizon, and Atelier d’Artistes, though the colorful wallpapers of the Esquisse Rooms might be most memorable.

Arrive Palm Springs is a Palisociety venture, an adaptation of the group’s accessibly glamorous look and invitingly sociable atmosphere to a modernist-inspired compound in the Uptown Design District. The architecture is distinctive, and traces its heritage to the local style. Interiors feature some retro-inspired elements, from Victorian-style wallpaper and curvaceous leather armchairs to modernist chairs, desks, and lamps.

The aesthetic and experience at the Hotel Fontenot are carefully tailored to New Orleans, displaying just the right measure of French influence alongside Kimpton’s usual understated modernist-inspired design. This is a famously hedonistic town, and a hotel won’t get far without a decent restaurant and bar. Thankfully the Peacock Room is up to the task, an eccentric, French-accented fantasy with a 19th-century bar.

Named not only for its address but for its Seville neighborhood, Triana House is bursting with local pride for all of Andalusia — each of its seven rooms is named for a different site, from Córdoba to Alhambra and beyond. Ultimately, though, they share more similarities than differences — while the details vary, all are suitably ornate in their décor, and full of bold color and dense visual texture.

Boardwalk Boutique Hotel Aruba is a vibrant, colorful, eclectic boutique hotel set amid a coconut grove just a five-minute stroll from Palm Beach. Most casitas come complete with kitchens and private patios with barbecues and hammocks. The bright and breezy décor is lit by plentiful sunlight, and while the style leans in to the inspiration of the tropical locale, it feels fresh and full of personality.

L’Eldorado’s owner has an eye for eclectic design; the hotel’s interiors span a multitude of eras, though it all adds up to a remarkably unified aesthetic. One thing it’s not is minimalist, or modernist — the rooms, with their ornately patterned wallpapers and textiles, have personality in spades. One suite comes with a private sauna, and many units face the garden from private terraces or balconies.

The Georgian townhouse that’s now home to Foresters Hall has long been a Cowes fixture, but its most recent chapter began in 2022 when a couple of film-industry professionals premiered it as their first hospitality venture. The rooms are all different, though they’re united by the decorative eye of their proprietors, who have outfitted Foresters Hall with period-correct Georgian decorative elements.

The Naumi hotel group is based in Singapore, but that doesn’t stop the colorful creations of hotelier Gaurang Jhunjhnuwala from fitting perfectly into the New Zealand hospitality scene. The richly detailed spaces at Naumi Wellington are as bold as they come, and the riot of floral prints at reception is immediate proof you’re in for something much more opinionated than standard-issue greige boutique-hotel minimalism.

The design at Palihouse West Hollywood incorporates L.A.’s plentiful European influences and encompasses a multitude of eras on the way to delivering a blend that ultimately feels fresh and fully realized. The hotel’s Lobby Lounge Café & Bar is a versatile space suited for everything from solo work to late-night revelry, but it’s the floral ceiling at reception that might bring the biggest smile to your face.

Set behind wrought-iron gates on a residential block, Pug Seal Allan Poe is a small hotel that feels more like a large house — though one whose proximity to the urban oasis of Chapultepec Park led to whimsical, nature-inspired interiors. Butterflies and insects dot the patterned wallpaper, tree branch sculptures and stag head busts are mounted above beds, and the color palette calls to mind sand, stone, sea, and sky.