Why The Maybourne Beverly Hills matters.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills is a cosmopolitan hotel where Golden Triangle's international luxury culture meets Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, contemporary California design and Maybourne's first American expression of its European hotel lineage.
Set along North Cañon Drive near Clifton Way and just steps from Beverly Cañon Gardens, the hotel occupies a Central Golden Triangle block between Beverly Drive and the civic district, with colonnaded public gardens opening directly beside its eastern frontage. Terra-cotta roofs, arched loggias, balconies and pale masonry give the nine-story building a composition derived from Southern California estate architecture of the 1920s and 1930s. Cañon Drive leads into a landscaped arrival court whose fountains and planting soften the transition from the surrounding retail streets into the hotel. Broad windows and terraces extend the building toward the gardens, placing greenery and natural light against the substantial masonry architecture inherited from its original development. The result is a hotel whose garden frontage, estate-inspired architecture and Central Beverly Hills position give Maybourne a distinctly Californian setting for its first property in the United States.
What defines The Maybourne Beverly Hills.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills is best known for transforming the former Montage Beverly Hills into the first American property operated by the company behind Claridge's, The Connaught and The Berkeley. The Athens Group developed the original hotel as a $180 million project designed by Hill Glazier Architects, placing 201 guestrooms and 20 residences inside a Spanish Colonial Revival composition conceived around the grand California estates of the early twentieth century. Montage Hotels & Resorts founder Alan Fuerstman opened Montage Beverly Hills on November 17, 2008 as his company's second property following Montage Laguna Beach. Hotelier Ali Kasikci became its opening managing director after sixteen years leading The Peninsula Beverly Hills, bringing an established Beverly Hills hospitality career into the new operation. The project arrived as the first newly constructed luxury hotel in Beverly Hills in more than sixteen years and incorporated artisan work including hand-painted ceilings within the original Library and Marquesa ballroom. The Athens Group subsequently secured LEED certification for the hotel and residential development as a single project in 2010, adding an environmental certification to a building designed around historical Southern California architectural references. Maybourne Hotel Group acquired the property in December 2019 as its first hotel beyond London, extending a portfolio historically concentrated around Claridge's, The Connaught and The Berkeley into California. The property reopened under The Maybourne Beverly Hills name in 2020, beginning a redesign that shifted its interiors toward the aesthetic direction of its new operator. Bryan O'Sullivan Studio became a principal creative force in that transformation, working across guestrooms, suites, lobby spaces and other public rooms through bespoke furniture, softer California pastels and contemporary forms. O'Sullivan's guestroom program incorporated individually selected artwork, Henry Dean glassware and curated book collections, establishing decorative continuity across accommodations that retained the building's broad windows and original architectural envelope. Maybourne also assembled a growing art collection with works by California-linked artists including Ed Ruscha, Jennifer Guidi, Mary Weatherford and Kort Havens alongside international figures including Damien Hirst, Brian Clarke, JR and Nelson Makamo. The transition joined a 2008 Beverly Hills development to a hotel company with deep European roots, using architecture, interior design and art to establish an American branch distinct from Maybourne's London properties.
Dante Beverly Hills opened on July 4, 2023 as the first permanent Dante restaurant beyond New York City, bringing Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson's century-rooted Greenwich Village institution to the hotel's ninth floor. Caffe Dante traces its Manhattan history to 1915, and Pride and Hudson assumed control in 2015 before rebuilding the business around aperitivo culture and an internationally recognized cocktail program. The World's 50 Best Bars placed Dante first globally in 2019, giving the Beverly Hills expansion a pedigree developed through the couple's reinterpretation of the original New York café. Pride and Hudson tested Los Angeles through a January 2023 road show that moved through local bars before finishing with a gathering inside the hotel's Hollywood Suite. Maybourne's partnership subsequently converted that temporary collaboration into Dante's third location and its first full-time operation outside New York. The rooftop restaurant combines indoor and open-air dining around a wood-fired oven, with Italian and Mediterranean cooking developed alongside the aperitivo program that established Dante's reputation. Southern California produce became a central ingredient in the adaptation, allowing Pride and Hudson to translate their New York format through citrus, herbs, seafood and seasonal ingredients associated with California. Nathalie Hudson directed the interior treatment through ocean-blue banquettes and a garden-derived ceiling fresco, carrying the restaurant toward terraces overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Dante's arrival also connected Maybourne's American property with the group's European portfolio when the restaurant later expanded into Claridge's in London, where its relationship with Maybourne developed into another permanent location in 2026. The Beverly Hills restaurant became more than an imported New York concept, establishing a collaboration that subsequently moved back across the Atlantic into one of Maybourne's foundational London hotels.
How The Maybourne Beverly Hills fits.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills works as the central anchor for an outing connecting Beverly Hills' formative commercial architecture, its preserved interwar civic ambition and Frank Lloyd Wright's final Southern California experiment in retail design.
Begin at Beverly Hills Post Office, completed in 1934 during a concentrated period of federal construction and civic development in the young city. Architect Ralph C. Flewelling designed the Italian Renaissance Revival building around an arcaded façade and interior rotunda, and artist Charles Kassler painted frescoes depicting Southern California history under a federal arts program. The postal operation eventually departed, leaving the building available for a new cultural role that led to its transformation into a performing-arts center. Continue to Beverly Hills City Hall, completed in 1932 after voters approved a $1.1 million bond issue for a new civic center and the city retained Harry G. Koerner and William J. Gage for the commission. Koerner and Gage developed a Spanish Renaissance composition dominated by an eight-story tower and tiled dome, giving the municipality an architectural center during the Depression. Beverly Hills later designated City Hall a local historic property, preserving a building produced during the same early civic expansion that brought major public investment to the surrounding district. Conclude at Anderton Court Shops, Frank Lloyd Wright's 1952 commission on Rodeo Drive and his only completed retail project in Southern California. Wright arranged six boutiques around a central light well, using an ascending ramp to connect three commercial levels within the narrow parcel. An inverted-V façade increased usable floor area as the building rose, and Wright placed a penthouse apartment and studio above the shops to complete the vertical composition. The National Register of Historic Places subsequently recognized Anderton Court at the national level for its architectural significance within Wright's late career. The progression moves from Flewelling's federally supported public architecture through Koerner and Gage's municipal tower and culminates in Wright's unconventional Rodeo Drive commission, connecting three architectural episodes that gave Central Beverly Hills much of its built character before the hotel arrived decades later.
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