The 30 Best Hotel Openings of 2021

Following an April opening in West Hollywood, Pendry Hotels & Resorts made its mark on New York in September with the 164-key Pendry Manhattan West, located within a large-scale, mixed-use Brookfield Properties development by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. Local practice Gachot Studios was inspired by the minimalist West Coast Light and Space movement of the 1960s and ’70s for the serene interiors, leading to such elements as the vertical white Moriki collage panels by John Wigmore in the airy Garden Room and abstract artwork by Nancy Lorenz above Bar Pendry’s marble bar. Quality Branded’s Zou Zou’s, a blue- and green-tiled Eastern Mediterranean restaurant designed by New York firm AvroKO, adds another visual layer. Photo by Christian Horan