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New Orleans
Atelier Ace and Studio Shamshiri-designed hotel Maison de la Luz has taken up residence in New Orleans's former City Hall Annex—the creative force behind Ace Hotel collaborating with the Los Angeles-based studio in conceiving a distinctive new...
Journal
A curious collection of art adorns the walls of Redchurch Townhouse and its restaurant Cecconi's. Dotted in corners in clusters, hung across simple walls, corridors and throughout the reception ... the artwork is captivating and spans multiple...
Portugal
There’s an old quote often attributed, without confirmation, to Leonardo da Vinci: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Now the great Renaissance polymath may not have been a minimalist in the sense of Donald Judd or Yves Klein, but he...
Tel Aviv
With just 39 rooms across four categories, Tel Aviv hotel The Vera allows—as founder Danny Tamari (whose previous successes included stints at Rocco Forte Hotels, the Morgan’s Hotel Group and the Brown Hotel chain) states: "guests to be able to...
Kyoto
Japan's expanding design/art hotel brand cum creative/social collective, BnA, have opened the doors on their third hotel proper, Kyoto the chosen location for the diverse platform's brilliant new BnA Alter Museum—a project that will explore...
Dispatches
Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
New York
Design and technology live side-by-side at Sister City, a New York hotel rewriting the rulebook on how to experience a city through travel. Designed by creative agency Atelier Ace—that's the folk behind the game-changing Ace Hotel—guests can...
Stockholm
Housed within a monumental 1930s warehouse—originally designed by Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz for Philips—Blique by Nobis is a new 249-room urban hotel that doubles as a natural nucleus for both local and travelling...
Acapulco
Boasting properties such as Puerto Escondido; La Purificadora; Hôtel Americano; and The Robey, Chicago, among others, design-minded hoteliers Grupo HABITA, have opened the doors on their latest property, Acapulco—that famously glitzy resort of...
Journal
Cleo Klapholz is a “29-year-old Antwerp-born Jewish girl” whose spare time is packed with creative pursuits including running UNQWomen, a project that sells customised gift boxes for women, and organising ProseccoPong, which takes that infamous...
Lisbon
Our flat whites arrive as we’re busy circling numbers and underlining names in biro on a pocket-sized map that spans all from a candle shop whose doors opened in 1789 and Luvaria Ulisses, a glove store with space for just one customer at a time to...
Lodz
PURO Hotels have focussed their attentions on Poland's third largest city and former textile manufacturing hub, Łódź, for the opening of their latest destination design hotel. The forward-thinking hospitality brand—that boasts...
Stuff Crush
It was 1997, Cool Britannia at its peak and Tony Blair's Labour government elected. Britain was riding high on a wave of euphoria and optimism. Britpop was its soundtrack. Fresh out of university, Leeds-born photographer Matthew Finn took a job at...
Journal
“I made a series of decisions that led to an isolated existence almost by accident,” says Cate Le Bon of a year spent in self-imposed isolation, “but it was what I needed to readdress my relationship with music and the world.” “I...
Journal
Cleo Klapholz is a “29-year-old Antwerp-born Jewish girl” whose spare time is packed with creative pursuits including running UNQWomen, a project that sells customised gift boxes for women, and organising ProseccoPong, which takes that infamous...
City Notes
Our flat whites arrive as we’re busy circling numbers and underlining names in biro on a pocket-sized map that spans all from a candle shop whose doors opened in 1789 and Luvaria Ulisses, a glove store with space for just one customer at a time to...
Dispatches
It’s that time of year again, when recent graduates are busy considering their next step. “I’ve spent the last three or four years growing as a designer, but how can I get a job? Who will see my work among the white noise of new design...
Dispatches
Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
Dispatches
Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
Dispatches
“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...