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California Cool Casual is the small boutique hotel you didn’t want to leave — terracotta tile underfoot, white plaster walls, linen everything, a door left open to the garden. Layered in neutrals but never flat: woven cane and raw oak, jute and bouclé, the texture doing what color usually does. Relaxed without being undone. Uplifting without being loud. The kind of calm that comes from a room that isn’t trying. From where we sit, it’s the most travel-shaped of the American interior styles.

Art Deco has a reputation. Hollywood Regency, Gatsby gloss, gold and chrome, mirrored bars, the kind of full-volume glamour that looks incredible in a hotel lobby and gets nervous in a regular living room. Done well, it’s beautiful — there’s a reason it keeps coming back. Done full-throttle, an Art Deco room can feel heavy fast, or worse, read trend-dated within one interior design season.