Where to Stay
Discover California through its Hotels
The DNA of California
Where Mid-Century Icons Meet West Coast Reinvention
California has produced some of America’s most influential ideas about architecture, design and the way we live. The desert Modernism of Palm Springs, Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, Spanish Revival estates, roadside motels and experimental coastal homes all reflect a culture that has long embraced new ways of living. From the creative intensity of Los Angeles and San Francisco to the deserts, mountains and Pacific coastline, California offers an extraordinary variety of landscapes—and an equally diverse collection of places to stay.
Food and drink are fundamental to the California experience. The state’s farm-to-table movement changed restaurant culture far beyond its borders, while Mexican and Asian influences are deeply woven into its culinary identity. Farmers’ markets, neighbourhood taco stands and roadside institutions coexist with destination restaurants, natural wine producers, craft breweries and some of America’s most inventive cocktail bars. Here, what is grown locally often determines what appears on the plate.
California’s hotels capture that same sense of possibility. Mid-Century motels have been reborn as stylish desert retreats, historic buildings transformed into imaginative urban hotels and contemporary properties designed around indoor-outdoor living. At DNA Hotels, we curate the places with a distinctive Californian point of view—hotels where architecture, landscape, food and a little West Coast experimentation make the stay an essential part of the journey.