From
$450 / night
Rooms
285
Setting
Sunset Strip
Best For
Design · Lobby
Reviewed
February 2025
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"I sat in the Juniper lounge in the morning with coffee and watched people work, network, reconnect. By evening, the whole energy had shifted — dinner conversations, drinks, the low hum of people genuinely engaged with one another. The lobby was doing something. I wanted to name it."
There is a moment — it happens the instant you walk through the entrance of 1 Hotel West Hollywood — where the city drops away. Not because the hotel is remote, or hidden, or elevated above the fray. It's on Sunset Boulevard. You can hear the Strip if you listen for it. But inside, something has been done to the air. The scent arrives first: warm cedar, sage, something mineral and alive. Then the materials register — brushed concrete columns softened by natural linen, reclaimed timber from fallen California trees, living walls that breathe with the room. The lobby is the point. Everything else radiates from it.
THE PROPERTY
Most hotels on the Sunset Strip are selling a version of Los Angeles — the mythology, the flash, the proximity to something. 1 Hotel West Hollywood is doing the opposite. It brought 75 tons of fallen timber down from Angel City lumber yards, hired RIOS to rebuild a former Jeremy Hotel into something that feels like a canyon clearing, and then trusted that restraint would be enough. It is more than enough. This is the rare property where the architecture is the amenity — where the building itself justifies the rate before you've seen a single room.
LOBBY CULTURE
Juniper operates on a rhythm most hotel lobbies never find. By 8am it's a workspace — unhurried, productive, the kind of room where a two-hour morning feels earned rather than wasted. By midday the energy shifts: creative meetings, casual lunches, people who look like they belong somewhere between a pitch deck and a photo shoot. By evening it becomes something else entirely — the low hum of a city that has decided, collectively, to stay a little longer. The lobby bar here isn't an afterthought. It's the reason people come back.
DESIGN NOTES
RIOS made a decision early: no surface would try harder than the material itself. Earthen plaster walls in clay tones. Natural fiber rugs. Reclaimed timber so present it changes the acoustics of the room. Living walls that are maintained, not installed and forgotten. The two courtyards — collectively called The Canyon — are planted with grassland meadows and use salvaged logs as benches. None of it is decorative in the conventional sense. All of it is considered in the deepest sense. The design philosophy here is that nature doesn't need to be framed. It needs to be trusted.
BAR & SHARED SPACES
Juniper anchors the ground floor, but the property doesn't rely on a single room to carry the experience. Harriet's Rooftop on the West Tower operates as its own destination — panoramic views from downtown to Santa Monica, a cocktail program built around seasonal and local ingredients, an atmosphere that shifts noticeably with the light. The Bamford Wellness Spa reads less like a spa menu and more like a prescription for re-entry into the world. The outdoor Canyon spaces between the towers feel less like hotel grounds and more like a park that happens to be private.
This is the hotel that proved something: that a lobby could be a life. That a morning with coffee and a croissant, a workout, and an afternoon at the bar with a laptop could be the entire shape of a perfect day.
— The Lobby Edit · Founder's Note
ROOMS THAT MATTER
The rooms at 1 Hotel West Hollywood are deliberately quieter than the property's public spaces — and that tension is intentional. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either the Hollywood Hills or the Los Angeles skyline. The material language carries through without repetition: organic cotton mattresses, Bamford organic toiletries, non-toxic rugs, clay-toned walls that absorb light rather than reflect it. These are not rooms built to impress on a site visit. They are built to feel right at midnight, after a long day in the city, when the only thing you want is a room that already knows what you need.
THE VERDICT
The Lobby Edit began here. Not as a concept — as a feeling. Everything you read on this site traces back to a morning at Juniper with a coffee and a croissant, watching a city do what it does best. There is no hotel in our portfolio where the lobby does more work, carries more identity, or draws a more considered crowd. This is the benchmark.
Editor's Note
This is the property where The Lobby Edit began. Not as a concept — as a feeling. Everything you read on this site traces back to a morning at Juniper with a coffee and a croissant, watching a city do what it does best.
The Lobby Edit Score
9.6
/ 10
The lobby that started everything. Unmatched in culture.
Property
1 Hotel West Hollywood
Brand
1 Hotels
Category
Sustainable Luxury
Rooms
285
Opened
2019
Address
8490 Sunset Blvd, WeHo
Rates From
$450
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Los Angeles
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Wellness
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West Hollywood
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MOMENTS AT 1 HOTEL
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Category Scores
Design & Materials
9.6
Atmosphere & Scent
9.8
Lobby Culture
9.9
Service
9.0
Rooms & Suites
9.1
Food & Beverage
8.8
Value
9.3
Sense of Place
What 1 Hotel West Hollywood does to you — not what it looks like, but how it makes the morning feel different from any morning you've had in this city.
Signature Scent
Warm cedar, desert sage, a mineral undercurrent — close to Le Labo Santal but owned entirely by the property
Lobby Energy
Working, networking, converging. The creative class of Los Angeles, in transit between ambitions
Material Character
Reclaimed timber, earthen plaster, living walls, brushed concrete — texture over polish, warmth over sheen
Time of Day
Morning belongs to Juniper. Evening belongs to Harriet's. The hour between sunset and dark belongs to no one and everyone
Lobby Culture Score: 9.9 — the highest in The Lobby Edit directory. There is no hotel in our portfolio where the lobby does more work, carries more identity, or draws a more considered crowd. This is the benchmark.
Suites
The Suites
Skyline King
368 SQ FT · KING · FLOOR-TO-CEILING CITY VIEWS
From $450
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Studio Suite
500 SQ FT · KING · SEPARATE LIVING · HILLS VIEW
From $680
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Loft Suite
665 SQ FT · KING · ABOVE SUNSET · STEP-OUT BALCONY
From $820
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One Bedroom Suite
760 SQ FT · KING · SEPARATE LIVING & DINING · BALCONY
From $1,100
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Panoramic One Bedroom
949 SQ FT · KING · DOWNTOWN TO SANTA MONICA
From $1,400
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The Common Ground
Lobby, Rooftop & Shared Spaces
Where the vision of The Lobby Edit was first understood.
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Where to Eat
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Three restaurants near 1 Hotel West Hollywood — one for each part of the day. Editorially selected. Each a worthy destination on its own.
While You're Here
What to Do Nearby
01
01
Runyon Canyon at Dawn / 10 minutes on foot from the hotel. Los Angeles before it's performing. The views from the ridge are genuinely staggering at 6am — and you will be almost completely alone.
03
03
The Getty Center / 15 minutes by Audi house car. The Richard Meier architecture and the gardens compete seriously with the collection. All three deserve the time. Go on a weekday morning.
05
05
Sunset Plaza, on foot / Three blocks east on Sunset. European-style café terraces, serious people-watching, and the particular afternoon light that makes West Hollywood feel like somewhere else entirely.
02
02
Melrose Avenue & Design District / Walk south from the hotel. The furniture and design district on Melrose Place is the city's most considered mile of retail — studios, galleries, and showrooms that reward unhurried attention.
04
04
The Broad, Downtown / 25 minutes south. Koons, Hirst, Basquiat, Cindy Sherman — a contemporary collection that reads as a document of the last 40 years of culture. Free on the first Thursday of every month.
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06
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine / 20 minutes west in Pacific Palisades. Ten acres of gardens around a spring-fed lake. One of the most quietly extraordinary places in Los Angeles. No admission fee. Go without expectation.
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