“The landscape is dominant,” Taavo Somer said of his high-design, 225-acre retreat that’s one of the best hotels in Hudson Valley. (In case you doubted its cult appeal: recently, Inness and interior designers The Post Company released a furniture collection together with Sixpenny of the hotel’s coveted minimalist furniture.) Dotting the pastoral grounds are 28 cabins, a 12-room Dutch Colonial farmhouse, a restaurant, two swimming pools, a nine-hole golf course, and a three-acre organic garden, as well as a wild garden designed by famed landscape architect Miranda Brooks.
This spring, Inness finally opened its highly-anticipated, 7,000-square-foot spa. Vogue contributor Megan Angelo described it as “getting a massage at a place where Taylor Swift will someday write a nature-inspired album,” when she visited. “Every finish is studiously deliberate—where else can you find treatment rooms that nod to the art of James Turrell?”
Amenities: on-site restaurant, outdoor pool, golf, gym, spa
“I wanted to move away from the typical Upstate aesthetic—antlers, plaid, reclaimed wood—and do something different,” designer Robert McKinley said of his interiors for Hotel Kinsley, a boutique hotel housed in four different 17th- to 19th-century buildings. Different, to him, meant adorned the rooms at their flagship property of 301 Wall Street in warm, sixties space-age-esque colors (think a mustard yellow headboard, a bright blue rug, an orange velvet sofa, and plaid chairs). Meanwhile, the 12 rooms at 270 Fair St boast bright Indo-Moroccan wool rugs as well as American Abstract Expressionist exhibition posters.