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FAENA HOTEL MIAMI BEACH

�ough the Faena District Miami Beach complex is un“nished,

the recently opened Faena Hotel Miami Beach provides a

dramatic glimpse of what's to come. Designed in collaboration

with “lm director Baz Luhrmann and his costume designer

wife, Catherine Martin, it's a gleefully unrestrained homage to

Miami Beach's 50s heyday and South American heritage. Vivid

turquoise and ruby-red interiors glisten, ethereal gold-leaf murals

decorate the grand hallway and a 24-carat-gold woolly mammoth

skeleton stands sentry by the beach. Unwind with cabaret at the

in-house theatre and 'shaman-developed' spa treatments.

Double room B&B from £600, faena.com

1 HOTEL CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK

Taking a radically dišerent approach from the often-fusty grande dames populating this

stretch of Manhattan, the ivy-clad 1 Hotel Central Park seduces sustainability-minded

consumers with features that are both eco-conscious and beautiful. For example, the entrance

doors feature reclaimed wood that's an accumulation of 16,000 fallen twigs, while bedside

chalkboards replace notepads and, instead of plastic bottles of water, the hotel has installed

water “lters in each room: a simple innovation re€ecting consumers' changing expectations

and the 1 Hotels group's mantra of '�ose who travel the world, care about it'.

Double room (excluding breakfast) from £408, 1hotels.com

THE TEMPLE HOUSE, CHENGDU

With the surrounding region home to some 80 per cent

of the world's pandas, Chengdu's Temple House provides

an attractive base from which to explore the Chinese

city, though this pocket of it is as rich in history as you'll

“nd -the 1,000-year-old Daci Temple stands next to the

hotel and the property's ancient courtyard dates back to

the early Qing dynasty. Respectful, traditional touches -

such as bronze detailing referencing the Shu embroidery

practised here - dominate, though rather less traditionally,

the house's signature restaurant is Italian.

Double room B&B from £257, thetemplehousehotel.com