And so it begins. Fresh from a rousing menswear season and the exquisite couture collections in Paris, it’s the turn of the AW19 ready-to-wear shows. First stop, New York. Although New York Fashion Week once leaned towards the commercial, over the past year both established and emerging brands have been resetting the agenda with a [...]
It’s looking like a cold winter in the fashion capitals this year. 2019 has proven to be a snowy one at the couture shows in Paris, and in New York later this month it’s forecast to be sub-zero. From January 29 to February 1, Copenhagen Fashion Week delivered a masterclass in winter-ready, easy elegance. After [...]
Designed by by César Machado Moreira as a 12 meter x 12 meter square, the Moreira House resides in Oporto, Portugal on a narrow street full of houses that span different times. The front facade is flat and closed off with a turquoise angled garage door and the street number stenciled on a matching turquoise [...]
Primoula country hotel & spa- Ano Pedina Greece. At Zagori in Ano Pedina, is located Guesthouse PRIMOULA, a traditional 4**** Boutique Hotel,with rooms, suites and two-storey stone houses, near the Vikos Gorge, and Voidomatis river. Around, you can find Konitsa and thetraditional villages Papigo, Monodendri andKipi, with the famous bridges ,old monasteriesand old monasteries. Ioannina [...]
The summer months are the perfect time for wandering Valletta’s shady, sloping streets, which are a welcome retreat from the hot midday sun. Several of the city’s baroque buildings have been newly restored, thanks to its programme as the 2018 European Capital of Culture, and historic architecture is hiding around every corner. Valletta sits at [...]
Cherry blossom season is big news in Japan, where it’s monitored day-by-day across the country throughout March and April. Peak Kyoto Hanami is usually in the first week of April, (weather permitting) when the city is bathed in pink and white blooms. Chase the colours from gallerist Elmar Weinmayr’s converted warehouse loft in the city’s [...]
March is the peak of the dry season in Costa Rica, which makes it ideal for exploring the country’s verdant jungles and pristine beaches. The Nicoya Peninsula offers the best of both worlds and is a burgeoning spot for surfing. Book a stay in at the Hotel Nalu Nosara, designed by architect Benjamin Saxe, which [...]
January guarantees snowfall in the French Alps, but February is when the action really starts to hot up on the slopes. Purge your back-to-work blues with a stay at Marcel Breuer’s avant-garde art village, Terminal Neige in Flaine. Set at 2,000-metres elevation, the 96-room hotel underwent a total revamp in recent years, and is a [...]
Architect Nicolas del Rio has put a South American twist on the Alpine chalet for his retreat in the foothills of the Andes in Chile. La Dacha – available to rent via Off Grid Hideaways from $450 per night – unfurls across 1,500 sq ft, and the mountain retreat sits between ancient oak trees and [...]
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects are literally and figuratively making waves in Denmark’s cityscape with their latest housing design, The Wave. Sculptural and organic in form, the distinctive peaks of the apartment buildings are visible from rail, road and sea; a feast for the eyes in a country dominated by a flat landscape. Located against [...]
