by Herbert Ypma

With a choice as immense as the country itself, HIP Hotels: USA offers a uniquely stylish selection of Highly Individual Places to stay.

Some of these hotels invite you to immerse yourself in the country's extraordinary wilderness; others introduce you to an urban scene with an edge.

Restore your perspective in a spectacular private treehouse fifty feet up in a giant cedar in the heart of Mount Rainier National Park; or come back to earth in your own lakeside cabin in Wisconsin, designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Explore Old World gentility in a Renaissance palazzo amid the clapboard farmhouses of New England, or live out your Rat Pack fantasies as you lounge poolside with a martini surrounded by mid-century modern classics in an authentic 1950s motel in Palm Springs.

Coast to coast, sea to shining sea, the HIP Hotels: USA is the ultimate guide to finding your very own American dream!

Contents

1. Arizona
   • Wigwam Motel
   • Rancho de la Osa

2. Austin
   • San José

3. Boston
   • XV Beacon

4. California
   • Duchamp
   • Post Ranch Inn

5. Chicago
   • The Intercontinental
   • The Peninsula

6. Florida
   • The Townhouse
   • The Raleigh

7. Houston
   • Hotel Derek

8. Los Angeles
   • Avalon
   • The Standard, Downtown
   • Maison 140
   • Viceroy

9. Maine
   • The Beach House
   • The White Barn Inn

10. Massachusetts
    • The Porches Inn
    • Wheatleigh

11. Nantucket
    • V N H

12. New Hampshire
    • The Shaker Inn

13. New Orleans
    • International House
    • Loft 523

14. New York City
    • City Club Hotel
    • 60 Thompson

15. Palm Springs
    • Estrella
    • Korakia
    • Orbit In
    • The Hideaway

16. Portland
    • Kennedy School
    • Hotel Lucia

17. San Francisco
    • Diva
    • The Mark Hopkins

18. Santa Fe
    • Inn of the Anasazi

19. Seattle
    • Ace Hotel

20. South Carolina
    • Wentworth Mansion

21. Texas
    • Cibolo Creek Ranch

22. Washington
    • Cedar Creek Treehouse

23. Washington, DC
    • Hotel George

24. Wisconsin
    • Canoe Bay

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