Kimpton’s Hotel Van Zandt nods to Austin’s music scene with a lobby installation where birds made of vinyl records take flight from an antique phonograph.
Photography by Whit Preston

Horn-inspired chandeliers in the spacious lobby welcome guests to Hotel Van Zandt, where materials like brick and white oak meet.
Photography by Whit Preston

Kelly Wearstler’s design of Austin’s Proper Hotel, seen here in a rendering, will include a mix of textures with modern and vintage finds.

The Westin Austin Downtown celebrates music with a deconstructed guitar behind the front desk and a ceiling designed to resemble guitar frets.
Photography by Nathan Kirkman

The exterior of the Rottet Studio-updated 130-year-old Driskill Hotel.

Hotel ZaZa will play up its warehouse location with an industrial-focused design when it opens in 2017.

Open closets, wood floors covered by sisal rugs, and denim accents mark South Congress Street Hotel’s guestrooms.

Sonesta Bee Cave’s two-story lobby is warm and inviting, with barn siding for a rougher edge.

A gilded tree stump side table in the library lounge at the Sheraton Austin complements a piece of wall art created from old novels.
Photography by Jenifer M. Baker

Café No Sé at South Congress Street Hotel achieves a fresh, California-inspired feel with whitewashed wood walls, reclaimed wood tables, and blue tiles set in wood floors.

A lobby level seating area is backed by walnut and resin walls and a window that looks into the JW Marriott’s full-service restaurant Osteria Pronto.
Photography by Nathan Kirkman

One of six room types at the Archer Hotel highlights a Western theme with artwork depicting wild mustangs.