Travel + Leisure: Best New Hotels in the World

Every year, Travel + Leisure editors look at thousands of hotel openings and renovations around the globe to create The Best New Hotels in the World. EDG is excited to announce Andaz Scottsdale made the list. "Scottsdale’s vibrant cultural landscape often plays third fiddle to its award-winning links, desert landscapes, and adobe-inspired mega resorts. Not at the Andaz, an art- and design-driven newcomer just north of Old Town. Inside the boxy, low-slung casitas — an homage to Scottsdale resident and legendary 20th-century architecture Frank Lloyd Wright — find colorful modernist furniture alongside prints and textiles from the nearby Cattle Track Arts Compound. Tempting as it may be to laze around your room (the spacious marble baths with dual glass showers alone invite hours of primping), the Weft & Warp Art Bar + Kitchen beckons. Chef Adam Sheff’s house-made ostrich jerky and lavender almonds are a welcome twist on blah bar snacks, and his inventive Arizona comfort food (green chile pork dirty hash, roasted game hen with adobo mop sauce) is served on ceramics made by Cattle Track potter Mary Van Dusen. To learn more about the hotel’s collaboration with the arts collective, sign up for hands-on instruction in painting, pottery, and more at Andaz Salon. Or bliss out at the Palo Verde Spa & Apothecary, where treatments use local ingredients like prickly pear and juniper." David Keeps.

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