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Playing It Cool: Berlin's Avant-Garde Blend of Music, Art, Fashion and Food

Playing It Cool: Berlin's Avant-Garde Blend of Music, Art, Fashion and Food

Berlin has become one of the hippest places around. Its heady combination of avant-garde music, art, fashion and food offers just the right dose of R and R, that is to say reflection and relaxation.

13 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke 8 min

Sails Pitch: Cruising Indonesia's Remote and Spellbinding Raja Ampat Islands
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Sails Pitch: Cruising Indonesia's Remote and Spellbinding Raja Ampat Islands

Whispered reverently among scuba divers, the Raja Ampat Islands lie at the far end of the world's largest archipelago. Our writer leaves civilisation behind, flying via Jakarta in pursuit of this fabled diving paradise.

10 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Exceptional by Design: Inside the Sixth Edition of Design Days Dubai
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Exceptional by Design: Inside the Sixth Edition of Design Days Dubai

The Middle East's only fair devoted to museum-quality collectible design returns to Dubai Design District, raising the benchmark with fifty international galleries, a strong British showing and a record turnout of Emirati talent.

9 Feb 2017 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Lest We Forget: The Human Toll of Syria's Civil War, in Stark Numbers
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Lest We Forget: The Human Toll of Syria's Civil War, in Stark Numbers

A sobering back-page reckoning with the Syrian conflict, marshalling UN and World Bank figures on the dead, the displaced and the impoverished to insist that the world's worst humanitarian crisis cannot be looked away from.

18 Jan 2017 By Official Bespoke 1 min

Living Legacy: Zaha Hadid's Final Furniture Collection For David Gill

Living Legacy: Zaha Hadid's Final Furniture Collection For David Gill

Before her sudden death at sixty-five, the Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, queen of the curve, was crafting a furniture collection for her long-time gallerist and close friend David Gill.

12 Jan 2017 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Haute Stuff: Fendi Opens Its Private Suites in the Heart of Rome

Haute Stuff: Fendi Opens Its Private Suites in the Heart of Rome

For those who love Rome yet crave an alternative to the Hotel de Russie, Fendi has opened Private Suites in the centro storico. The hideaway sits five minutes from the Spanish Steps, above the brand's new flagship.

1 Jan 2017 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Epic Journey: Oetker Collection and Somewhere Else Reinvent the Luxury Holiday

Epic Journey: Oetker Collection and Somewhere Else Reinvent the Luxury Holiday

Offering far more than five-star rooms, cuisine and destinations, Oetker Collection's collaboration with Somewhere Else could entirely alter how you travel, from freediving in St Barths to skiing the French Alps with Olympic medallists.

28 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Stretching Out: How the Burj Al Arab Became Dubai's Defining Icon
hotels · places

Stretching Out: How the Burj Al Arab Became Dubai's Defining Icon

Resembling a J-class spinnaker driven into its own artificial island, the Burj Al Arab was the world's most talked-about hotel when it opened in 1999, swiftly becoming Dubai's landmark and the tallest hotel on earth.

26 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Train of Thought: Aboard the Blue Train from Cape Town to Pretoria

Train of Thought: Aboard the Blue Train from Cape Town to Pretoria

Riding the rails between Cape Town and Pretoria, South Africa's rich tapestry of landscapes, gourmet cuisine and a single quirky village stop make the Blue Train the ultimate escape, a cocktail of history and decadence.

20 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

Set 2,000m Above Sea Level at the Edge of a Canyon, Alila Jabal Akhdar is a Hotel That Feel Like It’s on Top of the World

Set 2,000m Above Sea Level at the Edge of a Canyon, Alila Jabal Akhdar is a Hotel That Feel Like It’s on Top of the World

Alila Jabal Akhdar opened last spring on the Al Hajar mountains range, which is one of Oman’s most magnificent, untouched landscapes. Perched over 2000 metres above sea level, the hotel overlooks a dramatic gorge and is perfectly positioned to explore the region’s rugged landscape, maki…

16 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

Culture Shock: A Sunken Well Anchors the New Beirut Museum of Art

Culture Shock: A Sunken Well Anchors the New Beirut Museum of Art

Beirut's name is thought to derive from be'erot, meaning wells, a nod to the fertility of its water table. Fittingly, a sunken well lies at the heart of the winning design for the Beirut Museum of Art.

15 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

Inn Demand: Inside the Inaugural Haute Grandeur Global Hotel Awards
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Inn Demand: Inside the Inaugural Haute Grandeur Global Hotel Awards

Bespoke sponsors the first Haute Grandeur Global Hotel Awards in Abu Dhabi, where a data-driven rating system crowns the world's finest retreats, from Empty Quarter dunes to a Maldivian atoll.

9 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 4 min