Discretion is a highly sought-after luxury, and all the better when it can be savored in the chic surroundings of a private members club. These bastions of exclusivity have long been intertwined with hospitality. Consider the still-thriving Jonathan Club in Los Angeles. Founded in 1895, it merges the Renaissance Revival-style Jonathan Town Club, conceived by architects Schulze & Weaver in 1925, and the breezy Jonathan Beach Club built in Santa Monica in 1925.
Countless brands have since reinvented the model, from the ever-growing Soho House empire launched in 1995 to the ultra-swank CORE club established in New York in 2005. A spate of new arrivals continues to pique interest in the glamorous segment, which shows no sign of slowing down. From new brands to reinventions and additional outposts of longstanding establishments, in such a digital age, members club offer what many today are yearning: a sense of community and belonging by offering intentional third spaces often built around shared interests.
Take the San Vicente. After the success of clubs in West Hollywood and Santa Monica, in 2025 hotelier Jeff Klein introduced the Los Angeles hotspot to New Yorkers. Set in the West Village, in a 20th-century building that formerly belonged to the Jane Hotel, it was designed by London-based Rose Uniacke with a soothing winter garden and striking diamond-patterned flooring.
Here, a look at eight more head-turning refuges where money buys an intoxicating sense of privacy and connection.
Moss, New York
Conveniently close to Grand Central Terminal and Bryant Park, Moss is where members rove freely across five floors of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 520 Fifth Avenue supertall. Throughout the clubhouse, local design firm Charles & Co. mixed glam marble and statement chandeliers with vibrant patterns and earth tones. Along with a piano lounge and the double-height Bar Babette, a prime spot for people-watching, there is a podcasting studio and 20,000 square feet of wellness offerings, complete with a pickleball court, hammam, and a trifecta of thermal pools courtesy of Bedrock Aquatics & Athletics.
The Alpine Club
Rugged scenery surrounds the Alpine Club in Telluride, tucked deep in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. To evoke the spirit of the setting, New York design firm Pembrooke & Ives embraced the likes of original timber beams in the great room, hand-stitched saddle leather details in the restaurant, and sleek pops of aged metal at the bar. While the spa and terrace overlooking Wilson Peak elicit tranquility, “the Après Lounge is a particularly dynamic space,” says Megan St. Denis, design director at Pembrooke & Ives. “Built around a double-sided fireplace, the space pairs cozy seating areas with shuffleboard, checkers, and a full vintage-inspired bar, all set against a dark, moody palette and pressed-tin ceilings that nod to the region’s mining heritage.”
Faena Rose
Faena Rose stretches across floors 61 through 64 of the late Rafael Viñoly-designed Faena Residences Miami in Brickell. For the 45,000-square-foot arts and culture hub linking the two condominium towers, the New York office of London-based Bryan O’Sullivan Studio embraced playful motifs and dreamy shades of red, pink, blue, and green. Amid this salon-like atmosphere, Faena patrons dine and imbibe together, socialize in the billiards room and terrace-embellished library lounge, and retreat to the plush, lamp-bedecked cinema and infinity-edge pool facing onto the Miami River.
Camel Club
The private members’ lair trend has made its way to Lexington, Kentucky, in the form of the Camel Club. In this Georgian Revival estate on the outskirts of downtown, New York-based Jenny Bukovec Studio designed a slew of spaces, from a restaurant and greenery-filled terraces to library and listening lounges layered with furniture handmade in a Moroccan workshop. As a whimsical welcome to guests, Camila, a camel sculpture carved from solid burl wood and done up with golden beaded tassels, perches on a stone plinth at the entrance.
Momentum KC Signature Lounge
On the 10th floor of the Cascade Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, part of Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio, DLR Group has hatched the semi-private Momentum, a transporting world above Country Club Plaza. The 2,800-square-foot space greets guests with a fluted bar reminiscent of a bird’s wings mid-flight, a see-through fireplace, and heaps of emerald velvet bolstered by a meandering bronze installation, expanses of sage marble, and a terrace open year-round. Enclosed by drapes and a brass screen, the private dining room pulls guests into elegant seclusion.
Zero Bond
Zero Bond first made a splash in New York’s NoHo in 2020. Now the coveted club from Scott Sartiano and Will Makris has landed in Wynn Las Vegas. New York firm Tihany Design worked in close collaboration with the Wynn design and development team to bring the 15,000-square-foot destination informed by Milanese modernism to life. Swathed in walnut, the Salon, with its stone fireplace, is the focal point. But there’s also the Fairway Grill, crowned with a coffered ceiling, and velvet-lined Baby Disco. Even the entry vestibule, dubbed the Jewel Box, makes an impression. “Diamond-shaped wood surfaces and a Murano glass chandelier create a shifting interplay of light that quietly draws you inward,” says Alessia Genova, principal of Tihany Design. “There’s an intimacy to the space, balanced by a subtle theatricality. It marks a moment of transition, where the exterior falls away and the atmosphere of the club begins to reveal itself.”
Six Senses Place
Six Senses has expanded its luxury portfolio of hotels, resorts, and spas with Six Senses Place, a private members’ club fostering both wellness and community. Its inaugural location at the AvroKO-designed Six Senses London, a thoughtful reimagining of the old Whiteley department store, is driven by a robust programming schedule centered on movement and nourishment. But it’s balanced with carefree rendezvous at the duo of sculptural wood bar counters situated underneath the Dome Bar’s greenery-adorned skylight and the Place Restaurant, where the show kitchen is complemented by touches of brass and large-scale rattan chandeliers.
dragon-i
One of Hong Kong’s most storied nightclubs, dragon-i has been transformed by London design studio Pirajean Lees into a Wong kar-wai film-inspired wonderland. This time around, there’s an adjacent members’ club that doubles as a listening bar, where records pulled from the owner’s personal stash play to guests settled into the deep green banquettes. “Here, we’ve been able to fully explore the idea of layering and framing,” says co-founder James Lees, by “bringing together various materials and textures such as timber, mirror, velvet, and embroidery in a way that feels both expressive and cohesive,” adds cofounder Clémence Pirajean.
