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The hotels, the people, the products, the natural sense of creativity: meet the friends who made us smile. We get excited finding the standout markers that share our eye for style, creative luxury, design and the well-made. Gloriously selective rather than comprehensive, our collection of hotels, edits and little treasures runs from Lisbon to NYC, Santorini to the Alps. Here, there, not everywhere™️.
A private waterfront house on Symi’s Nimborio Bay, The Selene gathers stone and whitewashed cottages into five stylish suites, taken whole for fourteen guests.
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From Sicilian masseria to Highland estate: eight hotel kitchens where a Christmas gift voucher buys dinner, the suite upstairs, or both. For every flavour hunter.
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An unconventional furniture designer, a United Nations chamber and a house in Ordrup. House of Finn Juhl preserves the legacy of one of Denmark's most original designers.
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Swim shorts cut like suit trousers, a pyjama called Sprezzatura and a Latin name with a twist: Pater et Filius, Swiss label dressing men poolside.
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A cradle of the arts and style where twisted beams and heritage-thick walls flank a contemporary curatorial scene at this historic coaching inn and foodie haunt since 1350.
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A cousin's alpacas, sacks of fleece and a guild running out of masters: how My Alpaca revived Polish hand-quilting, one numbered alpaca duvet at a time.
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Ullrhaus is a hotel of muted luxury, where cool design marries Alpine soul and a minimalist edge. Located in the resort of St. Anton in the Tyrolean Alps, home to some of the Alps’ most exhilarating skiing.
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Ninety years of Ettinger: a Regent Street beginning, two Royal Warrants, a Walsall bench, Saint Crispin calf and a flash of turquoise. Heirlooms, quietly made.
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Creativity, nature, heart, design, deep comfort and food fuse at this house hotel and restaurant on the other side of Amsterdam, along the wild shores of Durgerdam, 20 minutes from downtown.
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Straw hats, dried potatoes, trouser buttons, rain hats, a century-old machine and a trilby: the history of Risa, Switzerland's last hat factory, in six objects.
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Find our latest member boutique hotels, luxury villas and design B&Bs to join The Aficionados collection of creative places to stay.
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Raw architecture, rusticity and a gallery of textured heritage narrate this design hotel outpost from its façade of dandy red shutters to the tales of twisted loft rafters and atmospheric exposed history.
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No hands, no crown, no glare: Antwerp designer Benoît Mintiens asked what a watch would be if invented today. Ressence is fifteen years of answers.
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Casa Fortunato is where design, history, and soul collide making it a rare private-hire house in Alentejo. Inside, postmodernist pieces beautifully marry with Portuguese heritage, vintage glamour and artistic rebellion.
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Lime paint starts as stone and returns to stone on the wall. Bauwerk Colour's founders built a global business on that chemistry, Fremantle to Saxony.
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A cultured Alpine refuge where design, art and nature converge beside Lake Schwarzsee. A poetic hideaway curated by the Witzmann brothers under the Tyrolean peaks, quietly spirited and deeply rooted.
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A curated style jungle of mid-century furnishings, abstract modernism and bespoke pieces are flavoured by the original pine panelling dating back to 1848 - and all this cuteness is wrapped in a canvas of wild herbs and mountain eye candy.
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Forged in Switzerland, the Feuerring is a sculptural fire grill defined by precision engineering, regional craft and reduced form, ageing with quiet dignity in outdoor spaces.
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An adults-only hotel-chalet chameleon married to a curatorial melange of mid-century nostalgia and a dialogue of soft luxury perched in altitudinous Adelboden.
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Where medieval pilgrims once stopped to heal, Jeanette Thottrup grows, distils and hand-bottles Seed to Skin skincare on a 300-acre organic Tuscan estate near Siena.
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Nestled in Sicily’s wild farmlands, Susafa blends sustainable luxury with rustic charm. Indulge in organic farm-to-table dining and immersive experiences—where heritage meets eco-conscious living and design for an unforgettable escape.
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Steam, larch blocks and a fedora called LORD REX. Four generations of Mühlbauer, Vienna's candid milliners, have kept hats handmade, playful and unserious since 1903.
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Set beneath the Hochkönig peaks, stieg’nhaus is Austria’s newest design hideaway. A modern Alpine retreat of soft luxury, sculptural calm and quiet hospitality shaped by light, craft and stillness.
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Our Über Tote, handmade in Portugal in Seville Orange, carries a royal picnic, the weekly shop, the wine or the dog, and keeps smiling throughout.
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A design and culture-led guide to Munich, exploring layered architecture, Bavarian craft, contemporary creativity and a refined approach to the good life.
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Anchored to specific genres of hotel design, The Aficionados print editions: Unwaxed Lemons, Neu Alpinistas, Farmhouse Fabulous, Casa Gorgeous, Blueprint Beauts, Neu Heritage, Eclectic Rebels, Design Natives and Alchemists of Italy take the reader through the creation narratives. A sourcebook for hoteliers, travellers, style aficionados and those who appreciate design.
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The country of Wales is a long-time respected and highly regarded producer of crafted textiles and weaving, and one of the most sought-after British manufacturers, produced in a whitewashed mill that’s been in continuous use since 1841.
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Antwerp is one of Europe's cultural hotbeds with historical landmarks and art institutions. And while Antwerp has plenty of those – we turn our focus on the smaller-scale contemporary culture must-sees the Flemish city has to offer.
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Our Favourite Femmes of Style - hotel matriarchs, interior gurus, fashion femmes, and women of effortless charm who make the world a better place from the entrepreneurs to the skincare disruptors.
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Discover the four best Santorini winemakers on the volcanic Cyclades island's vineyards: Argyros, Gavalas, Venetsanos and Hatzidakis from vinsantos to Assyrtiko.
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Conceiving of NOA as an ever-changing network of architects, interior designers, graphic talent to even psychologists and much more, NOA is able to incorporate a multitude of ideas and styles into its hotel projects.
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Carved from stillness and clarity, Agape designs are sculptural gestures in stone and form; poetic presences that transform intimate hotel spaces into quiet, architectural rituals of retreat.
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Based in Athens, the creative directors of BaBatchas, Chrysi Makri and Nefeli Gkyzi, were drawn to each other by a common love for their homeland of Greece and Athens in particular, where they both found its modern idiosyncrasies and ancient peculiarities an inspiring place to live and work.
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Set among the wide streets and historic buildings of downtown Manhattan, for decades Tribeca has been an understated artist haunt, a fusion of easy-going European charm and New York ambition.
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Mediterranean landscaping by Italy's top garden designers Fabiano Crociani, found throughout Tuscany and Umbria, including hotel Vocabolo Moscatelli.
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From Port to Wine - a new generation of winemakers is working with old vines and native grapes on the region’s dramatic slopes to craft a new wave of wines that speak of this unique region.
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Architecturally deigned buildings, an eclectic museum, library, secret garden and a scientific research institute make up the Lisbon outpost of this Portuguese philanthropy foundation, which is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Dendrophiles, or lovers of trees, will enjoy the diversity here with over 1,400 species – including rarely seen palms and ferns from across the world.
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Cinque Terre in the Slow Lane – Ensconce yourself at a secluded retreat where the pleasures of slow living are championed in a peaceful and tradition-filled Ligurian way of life.
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With an extraordinarily creative mind, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846 – 1923), was known for taking his own approach which can be seen in this revealing museum which showcases his graphic arts, caricatures, ceramics, object design and decoration.
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Kanaal by Axel Vervoordt & Co is a kind of city in the countryside, less than half an hour’s drive from Antwerp, where art, architecture and nature combine.
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Get the insider news and lowdown on what we've been up to, where we've been, and who we've met along the way. Be the first to discover new places and get the scoop on our favourites.