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A Swiss Chalet Reborn (with Rooms to Rent)
Brücke 49 Hotel Pension, a modern-rustic, four-room guest house in the alpine spa town of Vals, is exactly where we'd like to be right now. Located in a 1902 house with four guest rooms, the B & B...
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For Rent: A Ski Cabin by a World-Renowned Swiss Architect
Care to stay in the home of internationally renowned Swiss architect (and Pritzker Prize winner) Peter Zumthor? Architectural enthusiasts are in luck: Zumthor recently started renting out Unterhus, one...
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A Woodsy Cabin in a Happening LA Neighborhood—$115 a Night
Discovered on The Common Pursuit: A rustic cabin in Echo Park worthy of Henry Thoreau (and available for $115 a night). Photographer Brian Ferry of The Blue Hour spent a week there and says: "I had my...
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High Road House in London Gets a Revamp
We've been longtime fans of High Road House, a London hotel and member's club (it's part of the Soho House group), so when we noticed that it had recently been overhauled by Alexander Waterworth...
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Fontevraud Abbey in France: The Ultimate Haunted Hotel
One of the Loire Valley's great landmarks, the 12th-century Fontevraud Abbey, burial place of Richard the Lionhart and Eleanor of Aquitaine, has played many roles over the years, from monastery to...
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The Dean Hotel: Providence's Answer to the Ace
A first in a city packed with corporate chain hotels, The Dean, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an Ace-inspired gathering place with a playful vibe and a flair for applying a fresh spin to old New...
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Durslade Farmhouse in Somerset: The New Bloomsbury?
It's an unlikely love story. High-flying, edge-loving Swiss art dealers Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser of Hauser & Wirth (they have contemporary art galleries in London, New York City, Zurich, and...
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The Family Home Away from Home: Kid & Coe's Rentals
Zoie Kingsbery Coe, founder of vacation rental site Kid & Coe, traveled the world with her deejay husband, managing his career (first as a couple, then with two kids in tow). Out of necessity, she...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport: Barcelona, Spain
If you ask me, Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world, but as a part-time resident, I'm admittedly biased. Like Sydney and Cape Town, Barcelona is a city by the beach with a laid-back...
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A Modern Spa Retreat in Norway
Here's a novel concept: an übermodern Scandi hotel whose proprietors are so fixated on reconnecting guests with nature that they lament having to charge a fee. (But, yes, you still have to pay for it.)...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport Guide: Madrid Hot Spots
Winter in Madrid is very inviting: When I was there over the holidays, the sky was blue, the sun was shining, and it was in the sixties some days. One of the most happening areas to explore is the Las...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport Guide: Amsterdam Guesthouses
There's a lot of great design percolating in Amsterdam—and that extends to the city's guesthouses. Today, we're shining a light on five places to stay. Photography by Pauline Egge. A Design-Filled...
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Living the Life: 11 Farmhouse Rentals in Italy
Paradise within reach? A new wave of restored villas for rent is making it possible; here's our guide to the farmhouse rental, Italian style. N.B. A good source for villa rentals is The Thinking...
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Dine and Recline: The Talbot Inn in Somerset
Tradition meets state-of-the-art hospitality at the Talbot Inn in Somerset: fish-and-chips, venison stew, and ale on tap, plus Egyptian cotton sheets, handmade soap, and Siberian goose down duvets. A...
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A Burgundy Château, Hotel Edition
Johan Bouman and Pieter Franssens, the Dutch owners of Château de la Resle, describe it as "one of those typical countryside estates you see when driving in France that make you want to stop and...
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Expert Advice: 11 Under-the-Radar Parisian Dining Spots
Graphic designer David Rager lived in Paris for several years with his wife, Cherie Messerli (together they designed several up-to-the-minute Parisian restaurants like Candeliaria, Glass, and Le Mary...
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The Artists' Retreat: Brice and Helen Marden's Hotel Tivoli
Brice and Helen Marden, one of the longstanding royal couples of the New York art world, divide their time between their city studios and an estate in rural Tivoli, in upstate New York. They also...
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Bed and Bike: The Ultimate Hotel for Cyclists
"Cycle, travel, and good things," the motto of the Onomichi U2 complex in Hiroshima, Japan, doesn't begin to cover what awaits bicyclists who peddle up to the giant seafront warehouse. Located in the...
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Table of Contents: Instagram Escapes
Our Instagram feed has been torturing us all winter with the daily tales of other people's tropical getaways. This week, we're taking a series of vicarious vacations. And we want to see your own travel...
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Paradise Found: Guana Island in the BVI
I've been following NYC-based Yolanda Edwards's Instagram feed (@yolandaedwards) for a while now; she's the creative director at Conde Nast Traveler, so I figured I'd discover some good insider-y...
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Steal This Look: A Room at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, London
If you've stayed at the Ace Hotel of Shoreditch, London, with interiors by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of Universal Design Studio, you're probably still reminiscing about the effortless cool of your...
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The $75-a-Night Design Hotel: Baja, Mexico, Edition
We've been intrigued by the artful simplicity of the Drift San Jose in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, for a while now—see The Handmade Baja Hotel. Maggie Davis and Vanessa Smith's photographs of the resort...
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The Upstart Victorian B&B, Australia Edition
Last week I had a surprise late-night visitor. I was in bed not wanting to call it a day, so I turned to Instagram, and at that very moment the mysterious @inbedwith.me ("expert on big beds and room...
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The Architects' Choice: Hix Island House in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Our architect friend Elizabeth Roberts clued us in a while back to her (and many fellow designers') favorite winter escape: Hix Island House, a wabi-sabi, eco-friendly hotel in Vieques. Here's her...
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A Virtual Trip to the Maldives with Cereal Magazine
Rosa Park (@rosaliapark) and her partner, Rich Stapleton (@rvstapleton), launched Cereal ( @cerealmag), a quarterly magazine about travel and lifestyle, in 2012. We've been following them on Instagram...
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The Velvet Underground: Retro Glamour in Los Feliz
LA nightlife impresario Dustin Lancaster opened Bar Covell on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Feliz a couple of years ago; now he's offering five suites (upstairs) for patrons who want to stay a bit longer....
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The DIY Motel: The Spruceton Inn in the Catskills
"I’m a born and raised Brooklyn girl who turns out to have a soft spot for the country," says Casey Scieszka. "Before moving to the Catskills last year, I lived around the world in places as far-flung...
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The New Dolce Vita: A Reinvented Village in Tuscany
Ten years ago, Michael L. Cioffi, a high-powered Cincinnati-based corporate lawyer with a passion for Renaissance history, celebrated his 50th birthday with his extended family by renting a villa in...
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Paris in the Springtime: The Très DIY Hotel Henriette (Starting at $75 a Night)
Every room at the Hotel Henriette, newly overhauled by Paris designer Vanessa Scoffier, is a lesson in the transformative powers of paint and a few well-chosen (but affordable) furnishings. It's at the...
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Steal This Look: An Artful Bedroom at the Hotel Tivoli
When art stars Brice and Helen Marden took over the Hotel Tivoli, the Wall Street Journal likened the project to Martin Scorsese deciding to run a diner. Julie recently checked in for a night. She...
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Insider's Guide: 14 Don't-Miss Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Cocktail Bars...
Our friends at Freund von Freunden, the Berlin-based online style mag, heard we were coming to town and shared their favorite places to eat, drink, and be merry. Here they are in their words, and in no...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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