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From May 8 to June 18 happens an exhibition of interior design, with a unique format in Europe, which takes place every year in a different location in the center of Madrid – Casa Decor. We believe that a show like this deserves the best accommodation for you to stay, that’s why we bring to you today our top 15 of the best luxury hotels to stay during the exhibition.

See also: 15 Amazing Luxury Hotel Lobbies Around the World

Hotel Ritz, Madrid

The Ritz has undergone extensive renovations but has managed to hang onto a lot of its original hotel design so expect classic luxury at every turn. Sumptuous carpets made down the road at the Royal Tapestry Factory ensure that every step you take is in cushioned comfort.

Gran Mélia Palacio de los Duques

Although the building has been comprehensively revamped, original features remain. There is a Velázquez theme throughout the hotel with large reproductions of the great master’s paintings and the color scheme is inspired by the tones of his palette, with shimmery fabrics in hues of ochre, indigo, and maroon.

Westin Palace

This is one of those hotels where you step through the door and enter a different world. La Rotonda, as the restaurant and lounge area under an ornate stained-glass dome is called, is a circle of elegance where locals and guests meet for coffee and drinks at all times of the day. There are a good gym and sauna, but no pool.

Only You Hotel Atocha

A massive 19th-century building on a landmark corner site has been given an industrial-style makeover, with exposed pipes, black and white stripes, boxing posters and artworks with a sporting theme. Gentle jazz adds to the New York vibe. Stenciled lettering and a red stripe running along the walls in the corridors lends a bit of multi-storey car park chic.

NH Collection Madrid Suécia

The Suecia opened in the 1950s and for decades the hotel was a meeting place for Swedish residents in Madrid. Star designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán has cleverly remodeled the ground and mezzanine floors, where Art Deco details mix smoothly with contemporary Scandinavian style in the stylish restaurant and café. Definitely, a place to slither off a bar stool after one too many Daquiris.

Urso Hotel & Spa

The Urso opened at the end of August 2014 in an early 20th-century palatial building. Although it is in the center of Madrid, a muted palette of cool green, gray and cream tones and delicate Japanese prints create an air of calm and discreet chicness. Black and white photographs throughout the hotel give a fascinating insight into how the city has changed over the last century.

Hotel Urban Madrid

The first thing you will notice about this unusual hotel is its form — a glass-encased tower studded with black Zimbabwe stone, and seamed with champagne-coloured steel beams. Make sure you try out the wave-shaped flap chair by Edra that reclines at six different angles.

Tótem Madrid Hotel

You step into a world of minimalist luxury where all the materials are high quality. Charcoal, teal, dusky pink, cerise, navy, and purple all play a part in the color scheme, popping out against a palette of shimmery neutrals. The original wooden staircase has been restored and lends a sense of grandeur.

ME Madrid Reina Victoria

The glamor of the Reina Victoria’s former life has filtered through to the present day but now it is all Skandi-chic with Eames-style chairs inside.

Vincci The Mint Hotel

Designed by the renowned Jaime Beriestain, Vincci The Mint occupies an elegant, early 20th-century building and lives up to its name with cool green shades throughout, from peppermint to pistachio, pear, lime, olive, and emerald.

Double Tree by Hilton Madrid Prado

In an elegant traditional building with a white frontage, the Madrid Prado is every inch a boutique property and a very welcome addition to the city’s luxe hotel scene. It’s an excellent choice for those attending Madrid’s gastronomic, fashion and art events.

Hotel Barceló Torre de Madrid

Top Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created fresh, sensual interiors using a palette of jewel and berry shades with gold details and sweeping curves. A sculpture of a giant zebra-striped bear doffing a top hat dominates the ground-floor lobby and cartoon-like masks decorate the walls in the corridors, along with flamenco-themed artworks.

Hotel Unico Madrid

The Único is nothing if not dramatic. The property was originally a grand residence and it still has a discreet, private feel.

Gran Meliá Fénix Hotel

The hotel’s interior highlight is undoubtedly the lobby. Take a seat in one of the red velvet banquettes, and drink in the scene: a vast, circular room supported by Ionic columns made from yellowed, fibrous marble, and a palace staircase at one end. The room is crowned with a modernist stained-glass dome fizzing with color and decorated with impressions of noble ladies with sausage curls.

NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding

There are terrific restaurants and a buzzy lobby where guests look up in wonder at the vaulted ceiling, which is actually a 300m LED screen that projects 3D images, videos, photos and all sorts of wizardry.

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Incredible new luxury hotel design in Munich. The first Ruby hotel on German soil is in Munich.
The new Ruby Lilly at Stiglmaierplatz offers a lot to the eye of the beholder.  In the black, gold-accented lobby, hand-picked vintage furniture and colorful armchairs, various wooden chairs, as well as small and large tables create a casual and elegant mix around the bar under a high, open ceiling. An electric guitar animated on the wall animate and make music.

Michael Struck, founder and CEO of the Ruby Hotels, which currently has two houses in Vienna, is focused on a clientele that “moves in modern and postmodern living environments and is looking for the extraordinary”. His concept is “Lean Luxury” and stands for luxury, which is not defined by marble bathrooms, but wants to combine the essence with the experience.

For the bedrooms “Lean Luxury” means oak, precious cherry wood wall paneling, comfortable beds, partial window-sills with cashmere and chic lamps. An eye-catcher is the television test-image of the 1980s, which always appears in the carpet in the hotel rooms.

The Ruby Lilly Hotel Munich is located in a former eight-storey building, so that the restructuring of the guest rooms has resulted in 20 different ground plans. In order to be as efficient as possible, a glazed shower and a washing table were integrated into the rooms, so the guest can theoretically watch the shower. In the distance he can see from his retreat as well: Bodentiefe window fronts offer a view far over the Löwenbräukeller and the roofs of the city. In the summer, a mobile bar is planned on the roof terrace.

Some of the world’s most luxurious hotels transformed their lobbies into magnificent spaces and we are ready to show to you our top 15 luxury hotel lobbies.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. We all know that from first dates but it also holds true with luxury hotels. Although the lobbies aren’t our focus point when it comes to choosing our accommodation, the lobby is our first impression of any establishment and should reflect the hotel design and the kind of experience we are about to have away from home.

So, forget boring reception desks, the world’s 15 most luxury hotel lobbies go beyond the normal, aiming to impress from first sight.

See also: Welcoming new Hotel designs: Top hotel Opening Award 2016

Due to open in 2016, the Zaha Hadid-designed Me Dubai hotel is set to be one of the UAE’s most distinctive properties. Newly released renderings show its centerpiece will be a vast, sinuous lobby. In advance of the hotel’s completion, we look at other hotels around the world with incredible, imposing luxury lobbies.

Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Muscat, Oman, welcomes guests with a reception area that is palatial and ornate. It’s one of the best hotel projects and for sure will make you feel special when walking into this magnificent lobby.

Why should lobbies be inside? Your lobby must be a reflection of the experience that your guest is about to have and there is no better example than the Veranda, hidden in the hills that surround Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand.

The experience begins when visitors check in at the property’s open-air reception, before passing a tranquil pool to access their rooms.

It’s the view that sets the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo apart. Did you imagine yourself reading a book or just having a drink with this view? Breathtaking.

The lobby of the Four Season George V in Paris lacks the scale of many other luxury hotels lobbies.

No, of course, they are not fake flowers. Come to see the continually refreshed floral displays that decorate the space and makes the hotel spends approximately £1 million per year on flowers. It’s priceless.

ITC Grand Chola hotel in Chennai would look less impressive without a procession of elegant, sari-clad staff member lined in greeting but it wouldn’t be the same. The hotel as a whole features one million square feet of hand-carved marble that one of our favorite hotel design project inspiration.

The Norman Foster-designed Me London offers to their guests one of the most immersive, interesting check-in experiences ever. Different nights, mean different graphics that are projected into the walls, from expanding grids to floating jellyfish and starscapes.

Luxury hotels are characterized by treating their guest by the most unimaginable way. Rather than checking in as normal, they’re taken to the property by water taxi and check in at the hotel’s jetty where they are treated to hand massages and a fruit cocktail. Did you package already?

There’s a lot going on in the Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 reception area. Its proximity to the airport means a constant stream of tearful partings and joyful reunions are marked here and you can have the opportunity to have a Musetti coffee out of Italy.

In Kowloon in Hong Kong, Hotel Icon houses Asia’s largest indoor vertical garden within its lobby. French botanist and artist Patrick Blanc designed the feature, which measures 18 meters in height and covers 230 square metres.

Just when you though it couldn’t get any better. The lobby of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco is the world’s largest and, in our opinion, one of the best luxury lobbies.

The lobby’s at Barceló La Bobadilla  design may seem unusual to tourists, it is actually inspired by the Palatial architecture of Granada and near by Cordoba, when they were under the Nazrid Dynasty in the 14th century.

It’s seems like you’re in a Disney movie but you’re only at the lobby of the 125-year-old Raffles Hotel Singapore which is appropriately classic and agreeably imposing.

The Burj Al Arab is the distinctive sail-shaped hotel off the coast of Dubai.

It’s one of the most romantic reception and is situated on an island that is surrounded by thousands of gently flickering candles. You’ll find this lobby at Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Krabi, Thailand.

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