Casetta—which has five properties in California—has announced the debut of Hotel Willa in Taos, NM, the latest addition to its portfolio and the brand’s first foray into the American Southwest.
Tucked at the edge of the Downtown Taos Historic District, the 50-room hotel is located in a renovated 1960s adobe-style motor lodge. Some of the guestrooms have kiva-style fireplaces, while others open onto private patios with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Guests can dine at Juliette, helmed by chef and artist Johnny Ortiz-Concha in collaboration with his partner, Maida Branch of Siempre Design. The space feels more like an “ancestral kitchen” than a conventional dining room, with meals meant to be shared. The menu showcases ingredients from the onsite garden, while the beverage program offers low-intervention wines, small-batch spirits, local brews and an array of non-alcoholic options, from herbal remedio teas to house-fermented sodas infused with medicinal plants.
(Photo by Patrick Chin/Hotel Willa)
Facilities at Hotel Willa include a pool and hot tub edged by desert flora, fire pits, and a contrast therapy circuit comprising a sauna and cold plunge. Public spaces include a gallery-style lobby and The Store at Willa, a retail destination curated in partnership with Santa Fe-based SOTE. Hotel Willa also offers an artist-in-residence program in collaboration with The Paseo Project, a platform for site-specific, immersive art. The hotel’s 2,000-square-foot gallery rotates with exhibitions from both rising and established talents.
In line with Casetta’s commitment to sustainability, Hotel Willa partnered with Taos Initiative for Life Together (TiLT), a local nonprofit focused on community development and environmental stewardship, and architect Doug Eichelberger on a project to build its parking lot walls from 2,000 pounds of repurposed plastic waste. As part of TiLT’s Repurposing Plastic Project, which has diverted over 70,000 pounds of material from landfills since 2020, the walls are reinforced, finished with stucco and demonstrate how discarded resources can become high-performance building materials: lightweight, waterproof, insulating and long-lasting. This collaboration offers a compelling model for transforming local waste into meaningful infrastructure.
For more information, visit www.hotelwilla.com.
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