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Steal This Look: The Olde Bell Inn Dining Room
Ilse Crawford's design for the Olde Bell Inn, an Elizabethan-era hotel in the UK, is a brilliant mashup of rustic and modern—you can almost smell the wood smoke. Re-create the look with the elements...
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Chesa Wazzau: A Restored Farmhouse Near St. Moritz
After years of sneaking in visits to see architecture on our family holidays, my sons are now onto us and wary of our ways. ("Do we really need to see another cathedral?)" Next trip, I’m going stealth...
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Velvet Goldmine: Maximalist Glamour at Hôtel Providence in Paris
We like the idea of spending the holidays at a world-class hotel (you deserve it when everything is going to pieces). We're obsessed with the Hôtel Providence in Paris's theater district; a newly...
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Laid-Back Lodging on Byron Bay
Imagine a Scandinavian seaside fishing village in cool and casual Byron Bay, the historical and spiritual home of surfing in Australia. You'd want to linger in a place like that. And if you did, you’d...
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A Happiness-Inducing Guesthouse in Brussels
When Sophie Mattiussi, owner of the Happy Guesthouse in Brussels, was converting a 1902 townhouse in the center of Brussels into her four-room bed-and-breakfast, she made the smart move of teaming up...
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Talk of Texas: San Antonio's New Emma Hotel by Roman and Williams
The Pearl, an old San Antonio brewery deftly transformed into an entire neighborhood of restaurants, shops, and an outpost of the Culinary Institute of America, has just opened a place to stay. The...
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A Hotel with a Sense of Place: Rivertown Lodge in Hudson, NY
On a quick trip upstate a couple of weeks ago, we dropped in on the newly opened Rivertown Lodge on Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Located in a 1920s movie house, the hotel (and soon to be dining spot)...
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New Nordic Design at Boro Hotel in Long Island City, New York
Located in the Dutch Kills area of Long Island City (across the East River from New York City's Midtown), the newly opened Boro Hotel is the kind of hotel we can get behind, with just the right mix of...
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Moody Blues: The Hotel Bachaumont in Paris
Turns out, a touch of dark suits the City of Light. Take a look at Dorothée Meilichzon's navy-inflected Art Deco design for the resurrected Hotel Bachaumont in Sentier in the 2ème (within strolling...
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Windy City Gothic: The Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by Roman and Williams
Cue the cigar smoke and the gold watch chains. Master set designers Roman and Williams have recast the grand Chicago Athletic Association on Michigan Avenue—right across from Millennium Park—as a...
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Pretty in Pink: Brunette Wine Bar in the Hudson Valley
Our friends at And North clued us into the newly opened Brunette Wine Bar in downtown Kingston, New York. Owners Jamie (a graphic designer) and Tracy Kennard (a brand consultant) conceived the project...
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Steal This Look: The Kitchen of Urban Cowboy Bed & Breakfast in Brooklyn
Lyon Porter, owner of Urban Cowboy Bed & Breakfast in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, designed a communal kitchen for his overnight guests featuring open shelving, all-white appliances, and some of our...
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Berdoulat & Breakfast: A B&B in Bath
On Monday, we visited Patrick Williams' of design-build firm Berdoulat at home in London—see Out with the New: Reinventing the Past in a London Remodel. Today, we're exploring his family's home away...
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London's Sleekest Spa, Courtesy of David Chipperfield
All spas give a go at calming the senses. But London's Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre designed by David Chipperfield Architects is in a luxuriously minimalist class all its own. Crucial ingredient?...
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The Chequit Inn: A Grand Dame Reopens on Shelter Island
Sinatra slept here. The sprawling Victorian Chequit inn on Shelter Island, New York's low-key Hamptons alternative, began life as a Methodist retreat and then morphed into a stylish city escape. Under...
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Expert Advice: Lyon Travel Guide, Design Edition
The ultimate job for a Francophile? Laurie Furber, Bay Area–based founder of online housewares emporium Elsie Green, travels to Lyon, France, three times a year to scout for vintage wares. Lyon, the...
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Low-Key Luxury: The New Old Homestead in Provincetown
Designers Kristin Hein and Philip Cozzi of Hein+Cozzi "dumped our sandbox upside down," as they say, and "moved life and studio from the Hamptons to Provincetown, Massachusetts" not too long ago....
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Gritty Glamour at the Palladian Hotel in Seattle
Nicole Hollis drew upon Seattle’s rich history of lumber, gold, and sea trading for inspiration in her design for the interiors of the new Palladian Hotel. Housed in a 1910 landmark in happening...
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The Oyster Inn: Three Guest Rooms on a Remote Island in New Zealand
Andrew Glenn and Jonathan Rutherfurd Best are two Brits who, fed up with their careers in marketing and event management, escaped to Waiheke Island in New Zealand to open a boutique hotel. Glenn and...
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Fun House: The 25Hours Hotel Bikini Berlin
Most memorable place to stay in town? In-the-know Berliners told us to follow the monkey hoots to a hammock-strung hotel in a midcentury tower called the Bikini-Haus. Prime views of park and zoo...
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