CARLOS COUTURIER Hotel Endemico in Mexico (below) has won an award for its unusual setting and pod rooms


"We always like to surprise people with our hotels, either though the location, the architecture, the food concept or the choice of contemporary art pieces"


grupo habita


Mexico and one in New York, USA. Its first property, Habita Hotel, opened in Mexico City in 2000 and its first out- side Mexico, Hotel Americano, opened in New York’s Chelsea district in 2011. The hotels have won numerous


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awards for their design, including the 2010 Wallpaper Design Award for Hotel MTY in Monterrey, Mexico, and the 2012 Hospitality Design award for Most Unique Hospitality Setting for its mountainside bungalows at Endemico Resguardo Silvestre, Mexico (see main picture above). Different teams of interior design- ers and architects are used for each hotel to ensure each one is com- pletely unique – from the ultra modern


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rupo Habita is a design-led, Mexican boutique hotel com- pany, with 11 properties in


The latest hotel, Downtown Mexico, opened in Mexico City in June 2012


Distrito Capital in Mexico City to the former 19th century estate which has been transformed into the nine-room Maison Couturier in Veracruz, Mexico. Each is designed to complement the neighbourhood it sits in – while Grupo


Habita has a strong focus on art, New York’s Hotel Americano doesn’t fea- ture any artwork on its walls because its owners say they didn’t want to com- pete with the local galleries and artists that Chelsea is so famed for. l


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