Matt Trotter brings an intuitive, ever-evolving approach to every project, layering art, music, plants, and collected pieces to create spaces that feel alive and deeply personal. Rooted in a belief that good design needs room to change, his work embraces movement, risk, and character over perfection.

Its seven guest rooms are immaculate, but the lobby is your playground: Pop a record on the player, tool around on the piano and try your hand at foosball.

An easy day trip or overnight from Milwaukee, the riverside hamlet of Princeton is enjoying a revival, thanks to an inspired new hotel, a French-inspired bakery and a restaurant with artistic fixings.

Parlor Hotel is a seven-room inn that is anything but a quick place to crash before hitting the road. It is a space of belonging and becoming, a space to retreat and recharge.

Princeton-raised Matthew Trotter is building a purposefully curated ecosystem that both lifts up his home town’s history and celebrates a queerer version of up-north culture.