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London
Recently opened Kettner’s Townhouse is a restaurant and champagne bar with 33 rooms. It is the latest Soho House Group manifestation, and the first stand-alone hotel and restaurant open entirely to the public. The group's members' club feel...
Playa del Carmen
There’s an old idiom that runs: paradise is not a place, it is a state of mind. Nobody is disputing the multitude of positive scientific discoveries linked to the study of practicing meditation, and it’s important that we don't chase idealistic...
Mexico City
Located in the heart of Mexico City's posh Polanco district, Busué Boutique Hotel blends years old architecture with modern touches. Busué is a stone's throw from the expansive Parque Lincoln—an oasis of calm and nature in the midst of one of...
Journal
Running its way from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara—which in turn leads on to the Aegean and Mediterranean—the mighty 32km long Bosphorus is a unique strait; in that it separates the continents of Europe and Asia. Connecting...
London
Hotel, members club, and all-round extravagant London hotspot, The Ned has been causing quite the furore since its 2017 opening. With 250 guest rooms, more restaurants than you can shake a fork at, spa and grooming options, and the elusive Ned’s...
Warsaw
In the burgeoning Praga district, within the confines of the once-defunct Koneser Vodka Distillery—now a booming campus home to houses, the Vodka Museum, offices and a hotel—Thisispaper Studio have designed their first liveable space, a place...
Amsterdam
A grand eighteenth century house that sits proud overlooking the Nieuwe Keizersgracht canal is now home to Wittenberg, a sincerely dapper aparthotel bringing design sensibilities to the green and serene Plantage district of Amsterdam....
Los Angeles
Situated in the historical Giannini building at the cross-section of some of Downtown LA’s most energetic neighbourhoods, the NoMad Los Angeles—created by the Sydell Group, who are making some name for themselves as hoteliers with serious design...
New York
Located in a 1928 building once home to the original George Washington Hotel at 23 Lexington Avenue—a storied Flatiron venue oft frequented by writers, musicians, and artists of note—the latest venture by Sydell Group's free-spirited Freehand...
Munich
The third property from the Gekko Group for the Roomers brand combines topnotch design credentials with first-rate hospitality. More than ‘just’ a hotel, Roomers Munich is one of those spots that pitches itself as a destination for locals and...
Auckland
Bold bags of colour and a high-spirited design edge is set to define Naumi Auckland Airport, the latest property from Naumi Hotels; its first in New Zealand. Located in the city’s airport precinct, with easy access to the centre, the hotel...
California
A sense of true originality and bags of character permeate throughout The Sandman, making the Santa Rosa hotel a real hit with a broad spectrum of contemporary travellers. Whether passing through the Californian city or exploring its surrounds, on...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...