Pre-dating by a moment or two the new rush of country-house design hotels, Babington House was opened in the late Nineties as a sort of rustic sequel to the Soho House in London. A loose and unstructured kind of country excursion, where meals are available at all hours and recreation is of the do-it-yourself variety, whether it’s a swim or a game of tennis down at the Cowshed spa, an evening film screening, or a child-free hour in the billiards lounge.

The Soho House phenomenon now comes in multiple varieties, including urban-luxe creative-industry hothouses and laid-back beach-house escapes. Soho House Mumbai, as it happens, is a little bit of both; set in the glamorous suburb of Juhu, it’s within easy reach of Mumbai’s artists and other creative professionals, even as it stands just yards from the waters of the Arabian Sea.

Obviously Soho Beach House Canouan isn’t exactly like the original Soho House, just as the Caribbean isn’t Great Britain. But what’s remarkable is how much of the Soho House vision survives the translation to thatched roofs, swaying palms, and white sand beaches. The look is unmistakably Caribbean but also refreshingly cliché-free; every detail, in classic Soho House style, feels both carefully considered and effortlessly achieved.

It’s in a picturesque 1908 industrial building in the neighborhood of Fulton Market that you’ll find Soho House Chicago, an establishment that includes a stylish co-working space, a fine set of restaurants and bars, a plush screening room, an 80-foot rooftop pool, a spa and fitness center, and of course, the exact kind of stylish luxury boutique hotel the Second City has long deserved.

Soho Roc House, a 45-room escape on the south coast of Mykonos, close enough to the beaches and nightlife to feel convenient but removed enough to offer the privacy a members’ club demands. Tiny rooms are available for those in search of little more than a swanky crash pad, while the Big and Large+ units expand to suitably resort-like dimensions. Aesthetically, they’re pure Mykonos, though filtered through the boho-chic Soho House sensibility.

Little Beach House Barcelona is set not in Barcelona proper, but a half-hour away in Garraf, a fishing village turned holiday spot. And with 17 rooms it’s really only little when compared with the urban properties that are the core of the Soho House collection. It’s a restoration of a Fifties hotel which leaves just enough of the original intact for a bit of retro atmosphere. The rest is pure Soho House: easygoing, bohemian glamour.

Soho House Tel Aviv, Jaffa is, for now at least, the only Soho House with a turreted tower as part of its construction, thanks to the unique 19th-century building it calls home. And while it’s a decidedly urban experience, its location, barely a quarter-mile from the old port, lends it a seaside atmosphere reminiscent of the brand’s line of beach houses.

Soho House Nashville makes its home in a Bauhaus-inspired red brick industrial building that must have been the most picturesque sock factory in America; this explains the name of the Sock Room and Terrace, an indoor/outdoor performance space that hosts the lion’s share of the House’s entertainment. This, along with Soho House’s other stylish and vibrant public spaces, is open to members only — the good news is that a room key makes you a member for the night.

Among Soho House’s strengths is a knack for making a statement with an unusual building — in this case a ten-story Modernist-inspired structure in the up-and-coming district of San Lorenzo, to the east of Rome’s historic center. Membership leans heavily on the creative industries, which ensures a lively crowd; they’re here to mix in the ninth-floor restaurant, bar, and drawing room, or on the rooftop at Cecconi’s Terrazza, for a taste of Venice with a bird’s-eye view of Rome.

The fact that Soho House Istanbul is set in a palazzo built by a 19th-century Genoese merchant is a reminder that this city was, for centuries, a byword for cosmopolitanism and international commerce. Viewed from that angle it’s a sensible next step for the Soho House franchise, born in London but now global. The location is spectacular, right in the heart of the ancient district of Beyoğlu. It’s no time machine, though — the Soho House experience is a thoroughly modern one.

The Soho House concept has proved to be eminently adaptable, even while it retains its core appeal — for an illustration you couldn’t do much better than Soho Beach House Miami. It’s set right on Collins Avenue, surrounded by hotels of every size and style, but none of them are quite like this one, a private members’ club whose highly covetable services and facilities are the reason for the lodging’s existence.

The first Soho House outside of central London opened in the early years of the new millennium, when Manhattan’s nightlife-focused Meatpacking District still felt forbiddingly wild, and when the idea of a London-style members’ club felt intimidatingly Victorian. But New Yorkers are nothing if not social, and two decades later the Soho House New York is a bona fide downtown institution.

The original Soho House members’ club in London was followed up by another in downtown Manhattan; and though the brand’s focus on the creative industries is a natural fit for Los Angeles, Soho Warehouse DTLA is set not in Hollywood but in a 1916-vintage warehouse in the downtown Arts District — which is not just an arts destination, but is also central to the L.A. food scene.

Set in the monumental 1930s Bungehuis, a beautifully restored Art Deco edifice, Soho House Amsterdam is as fully realized as any of the other Soho House properties: a lively mix of classic architecture, modern design, and contemporary art, in this case by a panoply of Dutch artists. The rooms feel collected rather than designed, and while they shy away from typical luxury-hotel opulence — and this being Amsterdam, they start out a bit compact — they are nothing if not comfortable.

The first Soho House members’ club in continental Europe is Soho House Berlin, and its proprietors could hardly have wished for a more evocative setting — this Bauhaus structure is both historically significant and aesthetically distinctive. Not that Soho House has treated it with undue reverence; its renovation feels intentionally unfinished, with industrial rough edges that provide a pleasing counterpoint to the retro bohemian-luxe furnishings. And there’s art everywhere.