At the corner of one of Barranco's most storied streets, a two-storey Republican-era mansion — its white stucco facade dressed with Ionic columns, ornamental balustrades, and a carved cartouche at the roofline — carries the atmosphere of early twentieth-century Lima with a composure that most conversions chase and rarely achieve. Hotel B, which opened in 2013 inside this 1914 belle époque residence, was conceived as a kind of intimate art hotel: seventeen rooms arranged around the original floor plan, with the building's high ceilings, louvered French doors, and wide-plank hardwood floors preserved as the primary design gesture rather than dressed over. The interiors, led by the Lima-based team behind the project, work a palette of tobacco, plum, and warm ivory — tufted velvet armchairs in aubergine, olive-green button-back sofas set against zebra-print rugs, and oversized ceramic lamp bases glazed in amber gold. Rooms carry dark timber four-poster frames and crystal-stacked bedside lamps beside walnut writing desks, the proportions generous enough that the art — drawn largely from the contemporary Peruvian scene — can breathe against the chalk-white walls. The bar anchors the ground floor with bentwood café chairs around marble-top tables, a long walnut counter backed by a large figurative canvas that has the energy of a Lima jazz club circa 1960. The building's civic confidence and the interiors' eclectic warmth hold each other in productive tension throughout.

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The first Relais & Châteaux hotel in Lima is conceived as a hub for travelers promoting deeper exploration of the historic city; 20 suites, a signature restaurant with the spirit of a turn of the Century Explorers Club, a Guest House with the charm of Lima's traditional hospitality, a meeting center with artistic sensibility to connect travelers.