There are few cities in the world with the same dazzling array of hotels as Venice. You can chalk that up, in part, to its long history as a popular tourist destination, which stretches as far back as the 18th century, when it was a stop on the Grand Tour for aristocrats to indulge in decadent (and often licentious) pleasures at the city’s casinos and masked balls. Today, it remains a bucket list destination, though with less of the bad behavior of centuries past: most visitors are here to soak up the city’s cultural wonders (don’t miss the Peggy Guggenheim Collection for that), or to sample its culinary delights (a trip to a bacaró for morning cicchetti is also a Venice must).

More recently, the city has seen a new wave of design-forward properties pop up around the city, from then eclec

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