Mr & Mrs Smith Lume Boutique Hotel

Frankfurt may be Germany’s finance and business capital, but Lume Boutique Hotel gives the city some soul. The series of transformed townhouses now contains an outpost of everybody’s favourite restaurant in Berlin, which is also the only place in town that serves Kobe beef. The indulgence doesn’t stop there: it’s an oysters and caviar kind of affair, with original artworks by Yves Saint Laurant and Roy Lichtenstein gracing the walls, and hundreds of wines to choose from. Even the flooring is stylish, whether it’s carpets designed by Paul Smith and Alexander McQueen, parquet floorboards lifted in from a Florentine villa or three different types of Italian marble.