The online travel startup takes lower commission on hotel bookings to bring members VIP perks at swanky digs.

Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.

The designers of nostalgic-chic spaces like the Ace Hotel talk about how they bring yesteryear into our contemporary world.

Its latest exhibition, China Design Now, uses crowdsourcing and experience design to shift the museum’s role from curator to moderator, and to put the museum in the center of a global conversation.

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 a night--especially given the prime location, at 29th and Broadway.