Tablet Hotels Design Awards 2026: Best New Hotel Designs in USA & Canada

A 500-acre Somerset County estate an hour from Manhattan, Pendry Natirar occupies a 1912 Tudor-style mansion once owned by Moroccan royalty, now reimagined with 68 guestrooms, four dining destinations, an organic farm, spa, and cooking school. The property sits in the narrowing tier of Northeast retreats where scale, architectural provenance, and farm-direct dining programs converge in a single address.

Positioned at the edge of Cape Neddick on Nubble Road, ViewPoint Hotel earns a 2025 Michelin Selected designation for a property that trades on its relationship with one of Maine's most photographed coastlines. The hotel occupies a location where the Atlantic sets the design agenda, and where proximity to Nubble Lighthouse shapes the guest experience more than any interior detail.

Merrill House sits on Picton's main street as a dual award-winner for Luxury Design Boutique Hotel and Luxury Art Hotel, placing it at the top of Prince Edward County's design-led accommodation tier. The property combines considered interiors with a location that gives direct access to the County's wine corridor and lakefront towns. For visitors who treat where they sleep as seriously as where they eat, it anchors the Picton itinerary.

On 3,800 acres in Gay, Georgia, Quercus occupies a working landscape that has served as hunting reserve, cattle ranch, and farm before becoming a Relais & Châteaux all-inclusive property. Four standalone cabins, a biodynamic kitchen garden, and a 30-seat restaurant overseen by chef Ryan Smith place it in a category shared by almost no other American rural retreat. Cabins start at $2,700 per night.

Eleven individually designed rooms across three historic buildings on Warren Street place The Maker Hotel in the smaller, more deliberate tier of Hudson Valley accommodation. Founded by the creators of natural skincare brand Fresh, the property combines Art Deco and mid-century modern interiors, a glass conservatory Italian restaurant, a carriage house cocktail lounge, and its own gender-inclusive fragrance. Rates from $879 per night.

Le Petit Pali St. Helena sits on Lodi Lane in the quieter residential edge of St. Helena, operating within the Palisociety brand's approach to intimate, character-led boutique hospitality. The property reflects the broader shift in Napa Valley accommodation away from grand resort scale toward smaller, design-attentive stays where wine country proximity is a given rather than a selling point.

On Upper King Street in Charleston's Cannonborough neighborhood, The Nickel Hotel is a 50-room boutique property drawing its design language from the French Riviera. The address places guests within walking distance of the city's most concentrated stretch of independent restaurants, bars, and design studios, positioning it as a compact, character-led alternative to the larger properties closer to the historic waterfront.

1 Hotel Seattle holds a Michelin Key for 2025, placing it in the tier of Seattle properties recognized for design and hospitality standards rather than scale. Located at 2125 Terry Avenue in South Lake Union, it brings the brand's nature-forward design language to a city where that approach fits the local grain. A considered choice for travelers who want Michelin-recognized accommodation without the convention-hotel footprint.

The only Relais & Châteaux property in downtown Santa Fe, The Inn of the Five Graces occupies historic adobe structures along East De Vargas Street, the oldest street in the United States. Twenty-five suites filled with Persian rugs, Tibetan furniture, and hand-carved Indian woodwork sit within walking distance of the city's galleries and museums. Rates from $1,170 per night; rated 4.8 out of 5 by EP Club members.

Chattanooga's Terminal Station, a Beaux Arts landmark that narrowly escaped demolition in the 1970s, now operates as The Hotel Chalet — 127 rooms spread across restored Pullman railway carriages and a refurbished main building. Rooms range from Victorian-era carriages with original Tiffany Glass pendants to midcentury modern sleepers, with rates from $179 per night. Elsie's Daughter serves French-Belgian cooking with an Appalachian inflection beneath the station's dome-lit ceiling.

Opened in 2024 on Royal Palm Way, Palm House marks the US debut of London-based L+R Hotels' Iconic Luxury Hotels collection. The 79-room Mediterranean-revival property spent nearly two decades vacant before a full renovation restored its coral-hued facade and reimagined its interiors with sixties-inflected design, Murano glass, and marble bathrooms. It sits steps from Worth Avenue and the beach, at a rate from $996 per night.

Set inside the restored Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt house on East 16th Street, The Twenty Two New York is a London-import members' hotel with 78 rooms, a second-floor club space, and Cafe Zaffri, a ground-floor Levantine-focused restaurant helmed by the all-female team behind Raf's and the Michelin-starred The Musket Room. Rooms start at $1,025 per night.

Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, kodō hotel occupies a converted space on South Santa Fe Avenue in the Arts District, placing it inside Los Angeles's growing tier of design-led independent properties. The address puts guests within reach of the neighbourhood's gallery circuit, restaurant row, and the particular energy of an industrial corridor undergoing long-term reinvention.