Punta Mita, Costa Alegre, Mexico, Christopher Webster, Sotheby's International Realty

From the private earth-toned road that leads past Punta Mitas's centuries-old signature tree, visitors are first granted only a peek at the Four Seasons Resort through the palm fronds. Once they've arrived, guests will quickly realize they have happened across a resort unlike any other.

Every facet of the design takes its cue from the surroundings. As the most Mexican of Mexico's resorts, the Four Seasons Resort adapts its architecture from the truest Mexican coastal vernaculars, characterized by square windows, broad-hipped tile roofs and exposed wooden beams. At the entrance, a traditional palm-thatched palapa invites guests into the open-air lobby, where a divine view of the emerald Pacific quickens the heartbeat. Terraces are shrouded in native vegetation. Exotic plants cascade from hanging trellises. And a pool disappears into the luminous expanse of the sea.

Though the hotel design is one of simplicity—adapting colors, materials and forms from those found in nature—the Four Seasons Resort at Punta Mita is a gracious and sensuous environment true to its world-class reputation. Made up of just 140 hotel rooms and suites, that will be sold in weekly and multiple week intervals, it is an intimate and distinctly Mexican resort. Interiors offer luxury beyond compare through distinctive furnishings that feature huge and airy palapa ceilings, dropped fans, rich wood, authentic tile and Mexican colonial furniture.