3 hotels
Art Hotels
Three hotels shaped by the people who built them. One is a restored hacienda, one is a hillside of rooms without a fourth wall, one is low adobe in a high desert. None of them hides its architecture.
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Chablé Resort
Chocholá, Yucatán, Mexico
A nineteenth-century henequen hacienda sits at the centre of this hotel, its old machine rooms and chapel restored rather than replaced. Around it, guest casitas spread into the jungle, each with its own plunge pool and a lot of quiet.
The spa is built around a natural cenote. Guests walk down to limestone water that was here long before any building. Evenings belong to the main restaurant, where Yucatecan cooking meets a deep collection of tequila and mezcal.
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Jade Mountain
Soufrière, Saint Lucia
Architect Nick Troubetzkoy designed Jade Mountain so that the rooms have three walls. The fourth is simply absent, and the Pitons and the Caribbean fill the gap.
Guests call them sanctuaries, and most hold a private infinity pool that runs to the open edge. Stone bridges link the levels in a sculptural sweep. The hotel shares its hillside with its older sibling, Anse Chastanet, so a beach and a reef are a walk away.
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Tierra Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Low walls of stone and adobe keep this hotel close to the ground, the way older buildings in the oasis town have always been. Large windows do the rest. From most rooms the Licancabur volcano sits squarely in the frame.
Interiors lean on local materials and woven textiles. Days are spent out in the desert on guided excursions to salt flats, geysers and high lagoons; the spa and the pool are for the afternoon after.