31/07/2026
LARRY’S LIST has always been a platform for private collections — the people who build them, the walls they hang on, and the stories behind why a particular work found its way into a particular home. This holiday season, we’re opening a new chapter: a three-part series looking at hotels that put a serious art collection at the center of the guest experience. Some of these properties are run by the very collectors we cover — private passions turned semi-public, one hotel room at a time. Others are institutional commissions with a curatorial mind behind every corridor. Either way, the line between “private collection” and “hotel” has quietly started merging and mingling more than the industry lets on.
We open the series in Asia, where hotel-scale art collecting has taken some of its most ambitious and least predictable forms: auction houses building hotels on top of their own galleries, entrepreneurs relocating entire Ming dynasty villages tree by tree, and individual collectors turning a personal passion into an entire hospitality group. Here are nine addresses that reward the art-minded traveler.
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