Hotel Omm

"The 91-room Omm brings to Barcelona a different design idiom: Nordic Zen. Public spaces—including Moo, a superb restaurant—sport metal-mesh curtains, rough-stone walls, and Oriental-style lighting fixtures. Upstairs, the mood changes entirely: Think Copenhagen meets Kyoto, with blond oak-parquet floors, molded-plywood armchairs, and an unstinting minimalism that will have you wondering where the closets are (knobs, you see, would give the game away). Beds, centered on deep-pile moss-green or burnt-orange area rugs, are made up with duvets and white Egyptian cotton, and rooms that overlook the back of the hotel—preferable, since the street out front is noisy—have private terraces. An indoor-outdoor pool and a health club round out the offerings. Now if only the service were as refined as the surroundings."