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Despite his initial skepticism, news director Paul Brady discovers that Deer Mountain Inn truly is something singular.

Some cliches, it turns out, still hold a kernel of truth. So when I arrived at Deer Mountain Inn, the luxury lodge in Tannersville, New York, on a spring afternoon, I laughed when a staffer told me, “We’re just a hidden gem up here.”

You see, the idea of an undiscovered hidden gem tucked away on a secluded mountainside has become a bit of travel-writing patter, a say-nothing turn of phrase that’s been so overused that it has lost all meaning.

Then there’s the over-the-top design of the place, a rebuke to the idea that the only good hotel is one that looks as clean-lined as a Scandinavian train station.

On the contrary. Deer Mountain Inn proves that maximalism still plays, with an over-the-top look courtesy of interior designer Iliana Moore, whose vision “takes inspiration from Craftsman-style antique furnishings and William Morris textiles, creating a warm and in