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When The Mercer opened in Manhattan on the corner of Prince and Mercer, 25 years ago – as the sister hotel to Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont – it was groundbreaking in so many ways. Not only was it the first luxury hotel to open in SoHo, it also offered a very different concept o…
It’s funny but I have been reading about how amazing Baros is for years. Maybe it’s because I grew up in England or that I was an avid reader of magazines, but whether it was GQ, FT’s How to Spend it, The Daily Telegraph or Condé Nast Traveller, everyone, it seems, loved Baros. As if [&…
What’s the point of travelling to some far-flung idyllic tropical getaway if you can’t share it on Instagram, right? I mean, if you don’t feel hashtag blessed in a dopamine-inducing paradise like Maldives, are you even alive? And if someone else doesn’t get jelly about it, can you even …
Sometimes, simply standing apart is enough to make you stand out. It’s certainly the case with The Dubai Edition, which purposefully eschews all of those Arabesque references and ornamentation that we see so often in other Dubai hotels to offer a travertine-and-timber vision of understa…
Marriott's newest luxury brand, conceived with Studio 54's Ian Schrager to make hotels that don't act like hotels, lands in Downtown Dubai with a soaring lobby, four restaurants and 275 rooms.
Once you set foot in the lobby of the Colony Hotel Palm Beach you are treated to an enchanting visual feast thanks to a remarkable collaboration between the iconic newly renovated and re-opened hotel and the artisan wallpaper brand de Gournay. The exquisite wallpaper has the feel of a h…
Oscar Wilde once said, “I’m a man of simple tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best.” And, after reflecting upon my stay at The Woodward, I’d imagine the owner of this property must live by a similar ethos. From the moment you’re met at the airport by a tailor-suited driv…
The ultra-luxe German group behind Hotel du Cap and Le Bristol makes its Italian debut on Capri, reviving the island's oldest property with two starry architects and a deliberately unhurried philosophy.
In the virgin desert of north-west Saudi Arabia, French starchitect Jean Nouvel is carving a luxury resort into ancient cliffs, building not around the rock but hidden deep within it.
Damien Hirst has turned an entire two-floor Las Vegas suite into a living artwork, complete with formaldehyde sharks and a cantilevered Jacuzzi. At 100,000 USD a night, it is decadence on an industrial scale.
Taking pride of place in Dubai’s Business Bay district, which cradles the record-breaking sights of Downtown Dubai and waterside charms of Dubai Canal, ME Dubai by Meliá is a striking work of art by the late Dame Zaha Hadid. It’s the only existing hotel in the world to have had both its…
Set on Norway's east coast some two-and-a-half hours from Oslo, beside the country's largest national park, Spacegroup's Movikheien Cabin Resort was conceived as a quick-build answer to soaring demand for staycations.