Design Travel
Remodelista’s guide to noteworthy home design shops and top choices for hotels, lodging, restaurants and other design-oriented sights around the world.
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Let There Be Light
Here are a few things we love this week. Above: We're eyeing the home of Elle Decoration blogger Kristin Lagerqvist. 5 architect experiences we'd love to receive. This West Kirby home makes a good...
View ArticleChesa 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...
View ArticleVelvet 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors: A Glittery New Cocktail Bar in SF
In SF's most hipster neighborhood, the Mission District, a new bar aims to avoid design clichés. It's called ABV (Alcohol by Volume) and was opened by three restaurateurs with serious Bay Area cocktail...
View ArticleTalk 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...
View Article10 Tips: How to Create a Laid-Back Thanksgiving, Northern-California Edition
Photographer Julia Spiess of the blog Dinners with Friends is German and, like me—a Northern California Brit—is not fully vested in the whole tradition of Thanksgiving. We make good guests and bring...
View ArticleShopper's Diary: Picture Room in Nolita
Last year independent bookstore McNally Jackson launched its latest venture: a shop devoted to rare prints, posters, framed original vintage book covers (Miss Lonely Hearts by Nathaniel West, for...
View ArticleRequired Reading: A Cookbook from London's Most Artful Restaurant
Over the past eight years, Londoners have watched Fernandez & Wells grow from a small, heroic coffee shop with quality simple fare to an established family of eateries across the city. Throughout...
View ArticleA 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)...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleLA Story: A West Coast Outpost of the Apartment by the Line
Stylist Vanessa Traina Snow specializes in conjuring fantasy worlds; in New York, she made her mark by masterminding online lifestyle shop The Line and its offline counterpart, The Apartment, a fully...
View ArticleMoody 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...
View ArticleLab Boutique Opens Shop in Paris
We first learned about French designer Elodie Laléous and her bed linens and furniture collection a few years back. This year she decided to open up a brick and mortar store of Lab Boutique, a new home...
View ArticleA NYC Design Star Opens a Showroom in Milan
Tyler Hays of BDDW is broadening his horizon (again). He recently launched M. Crow & Co. in Oregon, and now he's taking his American handcrafted furniture collection across the Atlantic to a new...
View ArticleArchiplan Studio Rethinks the Intimate Italian Ristorante
We recently featured Archiplan Studio's Minimalist Intervention of a Wallpaper-Filled Villa Outside Milan. Today, we're visiting LaCucina, Archiplan's clean-lined but soulful restaurant design in their...
View ArticleCrypt as Canteen: Hueso Restaurant in Guadalajara, Mexico
The Day of the Dead is every day at Hueso. Part crypt, part Joseph Cornell–style assemblage, the concept restaurant (whose name means "bone") is an artfully spooky collaboration between...
View ArticleWindy 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...
View ArticlePatch Cafe: A Playful Custom-Built Restaurant in Melbourne
Located in an old warehouse space in Richmond, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, Patch Cafe serves a Paleo-inspired menu (think meat, fish, veg, fruit; what early humans ate) in a simple, unpretentious...
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