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UNWAXED LEMONS 2026

GORGEOUS HOTELS OF CURATED STYLE
A summertime read for lovers of design, creative style and architecture, this must-have travel magazine curates 36 of the most distinctive stays and cultural rendezvous across the Mediterranean, with pit stops along the Atlantic coast, from the headlands of Portugal and the Basque coast of Spain to the inland beauty of Tuscany, Italy, France and the Greek islands.

A summertime magazine for travellers, curating thirty-six independent hotels bound by design, architecture and creativity across the Mediterranean and its Atlantic coast.

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Contemporary

If you read luxury in clean lines and pale plaster, these seven are for you: a Greek forest club, an Alentejo wine estate, a Mallorcan marès mansion and more.

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Rustico

If you love a worn flagstone floor and the patina of age, these five are for you: a Sicilian masseria, a Mallorcan finca, an Umbrian monastery and more.

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THIRTY-SIX MEDITERRANEAN SIBLINGS, WITH GOOD BONES AND GREAT STORIES

Across 148 full-colour pages, the magazine reads the southern landscape through a contemporary design lens, where light, material and restraint shape every decision. Every property is family-owned, independent, hand-curated, and chosen for its personality and soul. No two are alike, though all read as siblings sharing a single thread. What binds them is the creativity of the people behind them, playful, instinctive, innate; what sets them apart is the form it takes, read across five design registers that run from magpie maximalism to the unforced patina of the working countryside.

Southern style is not a trend but a temperament, and the Mediterranean explains itself at a glance. Here, architecture has never been imposed on the land so much as drawn out of it, the building rising from the same stone, lime and clay the landscape already held, calibrated over centuries against heat, drought and scarcity. Thick walls hold the cool of the night deep into the afternoon, lime-wash turns away the glare and the courtyard banks shade the way a cistern banks water. From the masseria and the finca to the convent and the whitewashed island house, this is a world of sun, stone and shade, pursued in the name of shelter rather than show. Beauty followed naturally.