Nimb

International jet-setters may come to Denmark in search of modernist furniture. But they’ll inevitably be surprised to discover that one of Copenhagen’s best-kept secrets, the Nimb, is anything but a design hotel — the quiet confidence of this seventeen-room lodging leaves the hard-striving hipster boutiques in the dust.

The building, bordering on the famed Tivoli Gardens, underwent a thorough renovation in 2008, and while its present incarnation as a hotel is brand new, the look is timeless — its classic furnishings and top-quality materials arranged with a keen modern eye, familiar and at the same time totally unique. It’s the oldest cliché in the book to say that a hotel feels like a private home but every now and then it actually turns out to be true.

Then again very few private homes can boast of Tivoli Gardens as a backyard, much less a wine cellar to rival Nimb’s Vinotek, or such a classic, cozy little hotel bar. Not to mention the restaurants: Nimb is one of the epicenters of Copenhagen’s ongoing culinary revolution, and its restaurant, the French-inspired Nimb Brasserie, is among the hottest tickets in Northern Europe.