Home · Category
Hotels, restaurants and destinations worth a long way for.
From a petite Chelsea flagship, De Gournay is two decades into reviving the chinoiserie and hand-painted panoramic wallpapers that adorned Europe's grandest salons in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when trade routes to Asia first opened.
Blown away by his portfolio, our writer braced for someone intimidating when she telephoned Dawid Dawod. To her pleasant surprise, the man who answered was friendly and down-to-earth, happier to discuss his family than himself.
Part ideas factory, part experiment, the Dada Meeting Point feels like an atelier in hyperdrive. Displays last exactly forty-five days, says founder Jamil Dada, the space endlessly re-fashioned like a work in progress.
Barely a year after its ambitious renovation, the Grand Amsterdam is already collecting awards, among them best hotel in the Netherlands. An honour, says general manager Robert-Jan Woltering, but the next challenge is all Europe.
May I begin by saying something patronising? I feel sorry for you. I don’t mean to be insulting and I don’t feel sorry for all of you. Just those who were born with a silver spoon. Let me explain. You likely take it for granted that your life will be one of luxury. You travel […]
Our essential guide to the Dutch capital begins with its art. From the unmissable Van Gogh Museum to the partly reopened Rijksmuseum and the ever-changing FOAM photography museum, here is where to look first in Amsterdam.
We round up the destinations no traveller should miss, beginning with London. Neither riots nor economic gloom can dent the imperial entrepot, and with the 2012 Olympics looming there has never been more afoot.
From Oscar Niemeyer's audacious National Congress in Brasilia onwards, we tour the landmark civic buildings where space and light, rather than decorative detail, prove to be the truest expression of luxury.
There was a time when an artist had to die to be noticed; just ask Van Gogh. Today, living artists who have appropriated whole movements enjoy pop-star fame, yet seem overtaken by their endless self-reproduction.
We invite leading galleries to nominate their finest work, beginning with Galerie kreo's B.B.D. console by Martin Szekely, an elegant marriage of marble, crystal and aluminium that elevates the everyday with quiet, timeless luxury.
To walk along the Nile by Tahrir Square is to tread the heart of Egypt's revolution, where protests still draw thousands. Built by Khedive Ismail Pasha, these streets carry history in every stone.
A year after revolution broke out across the Arab world, Bespoke examines the factors behind the uprisings, from economic conditions and popular discontent to a historical overview of the regimes that were overthrown.