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Interior design

The Boathouse, London.

Born again: The greatest revamps and reinventions in travel this year

These award winners show how taking something inherently beautiful or unique and adding zeitgeisty features can double the joy.

  • Traveller Team
No one asked for this type of room design and no one wants it.

Glass bathrooms, excess pillows: 17 signs your hotel has bad taste

You may find these vulgar or twee designs and features in cheap hotels, but may equally come across them in quite posh ones.

  • Sophia Money-Coutts
Why can’t hotel technology be simple?

I just want to watch something on my hotel room TV. Why is it so hard?

This simple pleasure has turned into a palaver that makes me long for the violently expensive halcyon days of pay-per-view in hotel rooms.

  • Mark C. O’Flaherty
Kit Kemp’s style is a harmonious riot of pattern and texture.

New York hotel’s joyful design is the opposite of soulless ‘quiet luxury’

There’s a reason many previously all-white houses are now several shades of the year’s most on-trend colours, and it’s Kit Kemp.

  • Trudi Jenkins