Tag: design
29 Oct
Cape Town is one of the world’s great cities. The setting alone is worthy of top billing. And then you have a vibrant culinary scene,...
21 Jun
Tim and Kit Kemp, founders of Firmdale Hotels, have just opened their second NY property at 18 West 56th Street, 2 blocks from Central Park...
23 Sep
Francis Mallmann’s Restaurant Garzon is arguably Uruguay’s best restaurant and one of the finest in all of South America. But...
21 Nov
I love good food, but I am no foodie. I look at the aesthetics, the noise levels, the service, the comfort of my seating – even the...
23 Apr
As I told my son last night, I believe that one of the most valuable additions to our lives of the last dozen years is the TED talk. We watch,...
29 Nov
I am in a privileged position of sitting ringside at the ever-changing landscape of innovative hotel properties. I travel to, I read about,...
12 Nov
The Majorelle Gardens are a must visit in town as is the revamped Berber Museum. Clever shopkeepers, knowing that they have a captive audience,...
1 Sep
Coming back to Nairobi is to come home. The smell of early morning fog, birdsong transected by the passage of small aircraft,...
26 Aug
Copenhagen is quietly cool. It has always been the fresh faced capital of northern Europe – betwixt in between Scandinavia’s...
7 Aug
I have been waiting for two plus years for The Siam to open, ever since I met the wonderful family who envisioned this stylish and ambitious...
4 May
My good friend, Laura Aviva – she with the sublime eye matched only by huge curiosity and courage – has sourced this gorgeous, vintage...
11 Mar
One of the most evocatively beautiful restaurants I have seen in a long time is Hei Fung Terrace, the Peninsula Tokyo’s Cantonese restaurant....
2 Mar
A 500-year old Shinto shrine at the foot of the new Prudential Financial building in central Tokyo.
2 Mar
A day in Tokyo that brought together Buddhism, a pocket garden, Mitsukoshi’s remarkable Food Court and my pretty impressive sushi lunch...
1 Mar
Just behind the serenely beautiful Capitol Hotel Tokyu where I am staying is a charming Japanese Garden and an old Shinto Shrine. An early riser,...
31 Jan
Vahram Muratyan is the author and artist behind Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities, a blog that pits the pride and joy of both...
25 Jan
Casa Sur is a really good, reasonable alternative to the grand hotels of Recoleta, the Alvear, Park Hyatt, Mansion Algodon and Four Seasons....
27 Dec
One tends to think beach when looking at Rio’s top hotels and the Fasano usually tops the list. But there is a new Design Concept Hotel...
11 Nov
Fogo Island: The landscape is startling and honest, unsentimental and unafraid. The weather is a member of the community…the winds...
8 Nov
There is a mountain hotel that reigns over a landscape of pure, unspoiled beauty. It is Sweden’s oldest in the mountains, having received...
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