City Notes
A former private residence has been converted into a boutique hotel, the listed neoclassical building in Athens's Kolonaki quarter renovated by design studio, Babatchas, to provide guests with a 'home-from-home'; its mix of rooms and suites spacious...
City Notes
With its waterfront location and views of Maastricht centre and Sint Servaas bridge, NOON is a restaurant attracting the city's creative crowd; those looking for an alternative place to hang out. Serving a variety of sharing plates,...
City Notes
Fashion designer Djaba Diassamidze opens a new lifestyle store in Barcelona's Dreta de l'Eixample neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary space located on the ground floor of the extravagant Casa Tomàs Roger; a drop-dead gorgeous consortium of goods...
The Edit
What makes you happy? It is usually experiences, time spent with friends and loved ones, being told you’re great, that results in that intoxicating dopamine rush. But as the 24-hour news cycle seeks to bring us down, climate concerns and political...
Stuff Crush
Hate to break it to you, but it's that time of the year again. Depending on where you live, the Christmas carols may have already kicked into overdrive. Which means if you need to retain any sense of sanity, you'll be looking for a two month hiatus...
City Notes
A beacon of Italian culinary culture in London since 1944, Soho's oldest Italian delicatessen marks its 75th birthday with the opening of Lina Stores King's Cross; a new outpost housed in a heritage building behind Granary Square. With...
City Notes
With influences from the South of France, Morocco and Paris, Merci Marcel Orchard Road—the third MM outpost from Antoine Rouland and Marie-Charlotte Ley Rouland—is a contemporary café and bar for 'urban bohemians'; longterm collaborator and...
City Notes
Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Bathhouse—situated in a renovated 1930s soda factory—offers an array of treatments programmed by top industry professionals in a space that pays homage to bathhouses around the world; whilst blending the...
City Notes
With 162 guest rooms housed within a historic, century-old Army-Navy landmark building in downtown San Diego, The Guild is set to delight dwellers by "providing comforts and conveniences that will afford practically unlimited opportunity for...
Stuff Crush
Typically displaying three characteristics—a clean, minimalist aesthetic, an emphasis on bringing the outdoors in, and the presence of angular structures—mid-century modern homes remain some of the most celebrated architectural styles of all...
Stuff Crush
Although difficult to pinpoint exactly, the mid-century modern design phenomena began around 1933; inspired in large by the epoch-making Bauhaus movement. Continuing until around 1965, designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen and...
City Notes
Housed in a 1899 Neo-Renaissance building on the edge of Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, Walker Hotel Tribeca provides 171 distinctive guest rooms in what was once a button and ribbon factory; the area historically known as the city's industrial...
The Edit
What makes you happy? It is usually experiences, time spent with friends and loved ones, being told you’re great, that results in that intoxicating dopamine rush. But as the 24-hour news cycle seeks to bring us down, climate concerns and political...
City Notes
With influences from the South of France, Morocco and Paris, Merci Marcel Orchard Road—the third MM outpost from Antoine Rouland and Marie-Charlotte Ley Rouland—is a contemporary café and bar for 'urban bohemians'; longterm collaborator and...
City Notes
Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Bathhouse—situated in a renovated 1930s soda factory—offers an array of treatments programmed by top industry professionals in a space that pays homage to bathhouses around the world; whilst blending the...
City Notes
Fed up of making dinner plans, the ones where the sole reason is to have that long overdue catch up with friends (food aside of course), only to find yourself in a place you feel the need to either speak in hushed tones or feel the tormented wrath...
Dispatches
When one mentions house remodelling and renovating, half of you may feel excited, the other perhaps lacking the energy for such a challenging move. However, no matter your feelings on this topic, your house will require at least one renovation...
Dispatches
A change in scenery is good for your body, mind, and soul. People move for a number of reasons. It could be for a higher paying job, a loved one, a better climate or someone simply looking for a fresh start. In recent reports, close to 14% of the...
Dispatches
With its cinematic skyline and ultra-modern facilities, a trip to Dubai can give you the sense of stepping into a science-fiction film; futuristic and unfamiliar, quite unlike anywhere else on earth. Photo, Christoph Schulz. Sights such...
Dispatches
Sport is chock-full of rules; regulations and protocol for its players to adhere to. But some of those rules are more obscure than others. Whilst everyone will have had in their hands at another footballer getting booked for taking his top off, few...