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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport Guide: Madrid Hot Spots
Winter in Madrid is very inviting: When I was there over the holidays, the sky was blue, the sun was shining, and it was in the sixties some days. One of the most happening areas to explore is the Las...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport Guide: Amsterdam Guesthouses
There's a lot of great design percolating in Amsterdam—and that extends to the city's guesthouses. Today, we're shining a light on five places to stay. Photography by Pauline Egge. A Design-Filled...
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Decadent and Decayed: Dry Cocktail Bar in Milan
Located on Via Solferino in Milan, Dry cocktail bar serves just the essentials, pizza and cocktails, in a stripped-down, neo-industrial setting. A venture of John Florins, Andrea Berton, Diego Rigatti,...
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Raw in Milan, a Cabinet of Curiosities
With two locations in Milan (the first at Corso Magento and the newest at Via Palermo in the Brera design district), Raw has the city's distressed/vintage market cornered. Paul Badesco, a designer, and...
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Living the Life: 11 Farmhouse Rentals in Italy
Paradise within reach? A new wave of restored villas for rent is making it possible; here's our guide to the farmhouse rental, Italian style. N.B. A good source for villa rentals is The Thinking...
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Raw Yet Refined: Carlo e Camilla in Milan
Milan's rawest yet most refined restaurant, Carlo e Camilla in Segheria, is located in a former 1930s sawmill (segheria is Italian for sawmill). The space, designed by Tanja Solci, has been left mostly...
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Dine and Recline: The Talbot Inn in Somerset
Tradition meets state-of-the-art hospitality at the Talbot Inn in Somerset: fish-and-chips, venison stew, and ale on tap, plus Egyptian cotton sheets, handmade soap, and Siberian goose down duvets. A...
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The Simple Life: Malibu Farm Cafe
Is Helene Henderson the original earth child? She migrated to LA from Sweden, married American actor/director John Stockwell, and wrote a cookbook (The Swedish Table, in which she says "I was the soul...
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A Year in Burgundy: The Cook's Atelier in Beaune
Blame it on A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle's memoir of expat life in the south of France. Ever since, Americans have dreamed of escaping the burbs and reinventing themselves in the French countryside....
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Expert Advice: 11 Under-the-Radar Parisian Dining Spots
Graphic designer David Rager lived in Paris for several years with his wife, Cherie Messerli (together they designed several up-to-the-minute Parisian restaurants like Candeliaria, Glass, and Le Mary...
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Master Mix: Motti Casa in Studio City
Music industry veteran Nora Natali got her retail start with an at-home pop-up shop last year inspired by the "coolest stores in Paris, namely Merci, Caravane, Colette, and Bon Marche." It was such a...
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The Artists' Retreat: Brice and Helen Marden's Hotel Tivoli
Brice and Helen Marden, one of the longstanding royal couples of the New York art world, divide their time between their city studios and an estate in rural Tivoli, in upstate New York. They also...
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Paint It Blue: A New Wave Thai Restaurant in Vancouver
The bright blue plywood and galvanized metal decor of Vancouver's Kin Kao, designed by local architects (and Remodelista favorites) David and Susan Scott of Scott & Scott Architects, is a perfect...
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Bed and Bike: The Ultimate Hotel for Cyclists
"Cycle, travel, and good things," the motto of the Onomichi U2 complex in Hiroshima, Japan, doesn't begin to cover what awaits bicyclists who peddle up to the giant seafront warehouse. Located in the...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport: The Coffeehouses of Singapore
How do you like your coffee? With a bit of greenery or some flashy bikes overhead? To launch our travel week, we're exploring five standout cafes in Singapore. Photography by Pauline Egge. Expat...
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Table of Contents: Instagram Escapes
Our Instagram feed has been torturing us all winter with the daily tales of other people's tropical getaways. This week, we're taking a series of vicarious vacations. And we want to see your own travel...
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Paradise Found: Guana Island in the BVI
I've been following NYC-based Yolanda Edwards's Instagram feed (@yolandaedwards) for a while now; she's the creative director at Conde Nast Traveler, so I figured I'd discover some good insider-y...
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Steal This Look: A Room at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, London
If you've stayed at the Ace Hotel of Shoreditch, London, with interiors by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of Universal Design Studio, you're probably still reminiscing about the effortless cool of your...
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The $75-a-Night Design Hotel: Baja, Mexico, Edition
We've been intrigued by the artful simplicity of the Drift San Jose in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, for a while now—see The Handmade Baja Hotel. Maggie Davis and Vanessa Smith's photographs of the resort...
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The Upstart Victorian B&B, Australia Edition
Last week I had a surprise late-night visitor. I was in bed not wanting to call it a day, so I turned to Instagram, and at that very moment the mysterious @inbedwith.me ("expert on big beds and room...
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