Jaan Living. Cosmopolitan elegance for a modern lifestyle. This sofa is a dream come true thanks to its softness that you could literally sink into for ever and ever. Casual the look of the leather, practical the matching boards. For daydreaming or long reading sessions. Design: EOOS.

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Cosmopolitan elegance for a modern lifestyle. This sofa is a dream come true thanks to its softness that you could literally sink into for ever and ever. Casual the look of the leather, practical the matching boards. For daydreaming or long reading sessions. Design: EOOS.

Walter Knoll AG & Co. KG www.walterknoll.de info@walterknoll.de T +49(0)70 32/208-0

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Good artisans practice a craft, great onesproduce art. The dierence lies in the

latters desire to create what didnt exist before. This is the power of belief.

This is the courage to be an Original.

INCOMING: AT DESIGN HOTELS

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Our world just got a whole lot bigger(fromMoscow to Seoul, Melbourne to Rome,

and beyond). Say hello to 36 exciting new additions to the Design Hotels portfolio.

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The world is a canvas for creativity. This iswhy our Originals build their one-of-a-kind

hotels in great cities, atop towering mountains,along isolated beaches, or in some other

special corner of the world that they call home.

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You can judge a person by the company theykeep. This is why our environmental eortsinclude partnering with EarthCheck andFinding Infinity, as well as following theproactive eorts of Parley for the Oceans.

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Behold the world: These four mapsAmericas, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and

Asia-Pacific & Oceaniaare dotted with 279 Design Hotels member properties.

Explorers welcome.

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PUBLISHERDesign Hotels AGStralauer Allee 2C

10245 Berlin, GermanyT: +49 (0)30 884 940 000F: +49 (0)30 25 933 116www.designhotels.com

PROJECT MANAGERSRebecca Milz-Bruland

Paul RadnyStefanie Sandl

COPY EDITORTracey Kelliher

EDITORIAL PROJECT MANAGERSKen Baron

Vidula Kotian

AUTHORSJennifer Hofmann

Augustine SedgewickMelanie Sevcenko

CREATIVE DIRECTORJohannes Schwark

ILLUSTRATORHanni Pannier

ART DIRECTORSKathrin Kluckner

Vivian NebelinAnne Prinz

PHOTOGRAPHERSSimon AgerKate Ballies

BIONIC YarnStphanie Bisseuil

Jason ChildsJrome Coton

Gallerie Magda DanyszG-Star RAW C.V.

Steve HerudAna HopLes Bains

Debora MittelstaedtZak Noyle

Parley for the OceansKerstin zu PanCarolin Saage

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

GRAPHIC DESIGNERJanica Schfer

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTSAlina Soare-Rada

Laura Meier

DISTRIBUTIONHolger Mller

DATA SERVICES/PRE PRESSSystemic, Berlin

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ADVERTISING INQUIRIESLaura Meier

l.meier@designhotels.com

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THE POWER OF NEWIs new better? Or is it just more of the same?

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At Design Hotels we stand out, year after year, by introducing new hotels that each possesses a wholly unique look and philosophy. These properties join a stable of hotels that provides guests with experiences that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. Our hoteliers (whom we like to call Originals) dream them into existence thanks to a passion for craftsmanship and quality that one would normally expect to find from, say, an artisan. Indeed, we think that word artisan perfectly captures that drive for perfection that our Originals exhibit. Consider this definition:

Artisans practice a craft and, through experience and aptitude, can reach the expressive levels of an artist.

What better way to describe folks like Piet Boon, Marcello Murzilli, Jean-Pierre Marois, and Valry Grgo, who are just a select few of the new Originals joining Design Hotels this year. Designer, architect, and now hotelier, Piet Boon is a multidisciplinary genius whose eponymous property in the former Dutch Antilles, Piet Boon Bonaire, is a collection of individually designed beachfront villas that perfectly reflect his inimi-table sophisticated style. Murzilli is a legendary Italian businessman whose life experiences taught him that what people truly need today is a simpler, old-world way of being; thus Eremito, a hotel built in the spirit of a monastery in the Umbrian countryside between Florence and Rome. Marois, meanwhile, literally transformed a variety of rich histories into one bold new future. His spectacular Les Bains hotel is housed in a build-ing that hosted the elite of the Belle poque, served as a bathhouse for Marcel Proust, and, as the famed Les Bains Douches, was among the worlds most infamous nightclubs. And then theres Grgo, the driving force behind three hotels in the French AlpsLe Fitz Roy, Le Val Thorens, and Htel des Trois Vallesthat have recently been brought into the present with their unique histories intact.

1 LES BAINS, RSIDENCE DARTISTESJanuary May 2013, Paris

2 VALRY GRGOLE FITZ ROY, LE VAL THORENS, AND HTEL DES TROIS VALLES, French Alps

3 MARCELLO MURZILLIEREMITO, Parrano, Umbria

4 PIET BOONPIET BOON BONAIRE, Kralendijk, Bonaire