Even against the backdrop of the regal city of Madrid, the upscale Salamanca district stands out. And it sets the scene for a hotel that’s no less elegant. Hotel Bless is a luxury boutique hotel of modern vintage, but its eclectic style isn’t purely modern — instead it’s an inspiring blend of contemporary design and historically-minded architecture and décor. It’s unusual for a luxury hotel to be quite so stylish — or, to look at it the other way, for a design hotel to be quite so luxurious. The rooms and suites take the 19th-centrury inspiration of the building’s architecture and dress it in contemporary colors and textures, with echoes of 1920s Art Deco filling in the gaps.