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1 Hotel is an Unexpected Oasis in Downtown Nashville

Behind a curtain of ivy, the new 1 Hotel in Nashville celebrates the natural beauty of local and sustainable resources.

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Nashville Bounces Back With These Three Design-Forward Hospitality Projects

After the tornados of 2019 and lockdown of 2020, Music City crowds are back with a new W Hotel, Justin Timberlake’s downtown deco honky-tonk, and Sean Brock’s Japan-meets-Appalachia eatery.

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Audrey Nashville Fuses Appalachian Tradition and Japanese Taste

Sean Brock's new restaurant is filled with local Appalachian art and Japanese-inspired furniture.

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This Nashville Hotel Invites You to Stay Longer

The Music City’s BentoLiving caters to a growing nomadic lifestyle among millennials—as long as the WiFi is strong and a brewery is a stone’s throw away.

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Nashville’s High-Kitsch Hideaway Is Full of Retro Charm

The Dive, a new poolside property from Lyon Porter and Jersey Banks, transforms an old motor lodge into a wood-paneled party auberge.

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How Nashville’s Nick Dryden and DAAD Are Reinventing Music City

A third-generation architect, Dryden brings cosmopolitan sensibilities and Southern charm to the restoration of some of the town’s most beloved landmarks.

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Stonehill Taylor Refreshes a 1929 Nashville Hotel, Mixing Modern Design with Art Deco

The architects worked around the landmark’s many historical elements—some beautiful (plaster ceilings, looping corbels), some odd (the lobby’s red-and-yellow terrazzo floors).

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Nashville’s Noelle Hotel Uses Design to Channel the City’s Past, Present, and Future

Alongside Nashville-based architecture and design studio DAAD, 55 local designers, makers and artists contributed work to the hotel.