Monocle: Award Best new hotel

Unpretentious elegance: with the city hotel Kleiner Löwe in the cultural center of Bregenz, Herzog & De Meuron bridges the gap between historical context and contemporary architecture. A stylish experience.

As we do every year, in mid-January we publish the holiday homes and spaces that our readers particularly enjoyed last year. Here you will find the 20 most popular hotels and B&Bs.

Form follows environmental protection: in the Salzkammergut, just a few metres from Lake Traunsee, Haus Moosberg demonstrates how necessity can be turned into a virtue and how architecture finds its form through dialogue with nature.

What happens when you escape the daily breathlessness, and the tension unravels like a knotted thread? Amidst mythic nature, kind souls, and the timeless elements, Fowlescombe Farm in Devon follows the whisper of its history and nature’s rhythm.

An architect, a half-forgotten cloth manufacturer’s house dating from 1780, and four years of restoration: Villa Seinerzeit in Monschau’s old town shows how to not just save a house, but to truly understand it.

Anyone arriving at Ca’ dei Mongi above Lake Garda is usually left speechless by the spectacular panorama of lake, mountains and sky, judges Elle Decoration Germany.