...backwards. Instead, the growth of China as a global economic powerhouse created huge opportunities and the world flocked to this half-way house between the Far East and West – bringing...
...Shanghai Centre, a renowned entertainment hub, its 610 opulent rooms and suites nod to Shanghai’s past, in a signature East meets West style, with lashings of Ritz Carlton signature trimmings....
...the heart of Westminster, with curving double staircases and wrap-around balconies. The eclectic furnishings shouldn’t really work together but do, to dramatic effect – providing a great talking point over the hotel’s infamous afternoon tea....
Teetering temptingly and dramatically close to the cliff-edge, over the deep blue ocean, is a little bit of luxury with bundles of sophisticated Italian elegance and charm. East meets West...
Midtown westside is road less traveled for the average visitor to New York City. A strange place to find a Kimpton boutique. However, this part of the city is on the up, in just...
...found myself navigating the city’s South Western shrines to retail enlightenment. Quite possibly the most eclectic and hip parts of town to splash some yen, here is my quick and...
...wish list; now, I would love to spend more time immersed in its heady blend of Western modernism and historically distinctive character. My final overseas trip of last year was...
...hub was secured and they relinquished Bintan to the Dutch, who in turn withdrew control in 1945, when Indonesia became independent. These days, Westerners are still an important presence on...
...be showcasing products and services specifically tailored to LGBT+ weddings, from 13 to 14 September. Participating exhibitors read like a directory of Mayfair’s finest; including Vivienne Westwood, legendary Savile Row...
...passions – adventure, nature, conservation, sustainability and Cambodia. An explorer-class, luxury tented camp for just 30 guests, it is designed to merge into the natural environment with the lowest possible...
...gems, because I don’t want everyone to know. You’ll have to come and see them with me. Tourism is mostly focused on the centre of the island, the west and...
...balance between holiday and hospital is important. SHA, an exclusive, luxury spa property in Spain, are the pioneers of integrated wellness, fusing eastern and western medicine to create their own...
...the Western Cape province, is a relatively new kid on the block. That said, the house dates from 1765, but was totally rebuilt in modern Cape style – a vast...
...and secondly, this part of Western Europe’s favourite mountain range is an altogether different world from the glittering billionaire hideouts of Switzerland and Bavaria. In Alta Badia, glitter makes way...
...to the shrill. But sultry Silom and regal Rattanakosin aside, the city’s westernmost district, just across the Chao Phraya River, is perhaps its most outstanding. In Thonburi, time has seemingly...
...their newest designer finds and let each other in on the latest Stockholm gossip. But it’s not all champagne and ‘ciao’. Instead, Riche dishes up heritage Scandinavian cuisine with a...
...of Westminster, London and close to the shops of iconic Bond, Regent and Oxford Streets, the Tree House London offers views of the Shard and Canary Wharf. It’s a contemporary...
...sublime, open-space and the wild landscapes of Scotland‘s western coastline. Scotland has always had its own unique DNA and culture, but we’ve noticed that in recent years, it has been...
...desire to construct a forever-home to grow old and produce meaningful works in. While the museal spaces are certainly worth your time (a current retrospective on Vivienne Westwood’s decades-spanning work...
...– which would be perfect just after a quiet swim at what is Western Europe’s highest infinity pool. And while you’re there, you can take a sneak peak into their...
Just a swift 30-minute drive from Gothenburg, in West Sweden, this vast cotton mill turned hotel with a resort-like feel had us dreaming away as we soaked in our bathtub...
...Astoria Bangkok was a delight. Breakfast each day was served in the hotel’s expansive circular Front Room, which offers three decadent marble bars, serving Thai, Western and healthy morning treats....
...The Sophisticate CMB GMT +5.5 While you’re Out There The property faces the sea at Galle Face Beach, which has an uninterrupted westerly view. Sunsets galore from the property itself,...
...well as lectures, performances and even workshops. The unique western-style building in which it is located never fails to interest visitors. Nezu Museum This museum was designed by the world-renowned...
...the commercial, well-known places are not where it’s at. The west coast? Done, pretty much. Getting far off the beaten track is the way to discover Sri Lanka, and the...
...via our online shop. The gay scene in NYC at the time was thriving. We had bars and clubs across four ‘gayborhoods’: East Village, West Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen....
...them ideas about civic design that are still evident today in the wide streets of the Golden Square Mile, which steps up in terraces to the west, away from the...
...west coast, chances are higher you’ll get to swim with the biggest fish of them all: the gargantuan whale shark. Our favourite dive site in the country by far is...
...manifests its turbulent history. To the west of Grand Boulevard, elegant city streets are punctuated with opulent 19th-century mansions and landmark historic buildings (some still bearing bullet wounds from the...
...city’s creative energy emerged, the coolest backpackers headed not to Prague or Vienna, but to Budapest. Here, East meets West, with Balkan and post-Communist influences, and these travellers added more...
...holistic Indian system of medicine, diet and exercise Ayurveda. Recently growing in popularity among wellness-minded Western seekers and celebrities, Ayurveda is a passion of the Giardino group’s CEO and spa...
...Lloyd Wright is famed for designing structures that were boundary pushing and ahead of their time. Just 10 miles west of downtown Chicago, we found the beautiful Oak Park, where...
...– conveniently so: we’d been looking for a reason to return. According to Robin West, vice president of Expedition Operations for Seabourn, the inspiration behind the joint project was born...
...his West London estate). Completing the designer’s signature aesthetic are thoughtful details: an animated eye marks the viewfinder while the message ‘look and see’ in Smith’s handwriting sits above the...
...their little toe into the big blue outside Shangri-La’s properties in Mauritius and the Maldives is likely to concur. It’s nice that here, miles away in Western Europe, we can...
...an artist as well as a graphic and industrial designer. A proud Mallorcan, from Sóller in the northwest of the island, Toni is entrenched in raising the awareness of the...
...though that doesn’t always translate into happiness or beauty. But to give credit where it’s due, it’s certainly far more open, more tolerant, more Western than when I was growing...
...Martin (Spam). Looking around the desanctified smut club we called Serpentine on the West Side Highway, I saw many of the characters and a new generation of artists I’d met and developed...
...influenced by haute couture, has been envisioned as a jewellery box. Fine timbres, snug carpets and fabrics, marbles, as well as custom-made furniture and lighting abound. This Westminster hideaway will...
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