Hotel Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort

To say that Hotel Kitzhof is more than the sum of its parts is to drastically understate the case. The 163-room resort in the Austrian Alps takes the familiar materials of a traditional alpine lodge — black-and-white photos of olden-days skiers, an abundance of pine, hunting trophies (i.e. antlers) mounted on the walls — and transforms them into something completely different from what those ingredients suggest. It’s a modern design hotel worthy of the title.