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The Chequit Inn: A Grand Dame Reopens on Shelter Island
Sinatra slept here. The sprawling Victorian Chequit inn on Shelter Island, New York's low-key Hamptons alternative, began life as a Methodist retreat and then morphed into a stylish city escape. Under...
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High-Style Hillbilly: Tyler Hays for M. Crow & Co.
Designer Tyler Hays established his signature luxe-rustic look at BDDW, his handmade furniture company in New York. More recently, he's delved into the world of trading blankets, stoneware mugs, and...
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A Homey (but Subtly Luxe) Restaurant in Columbia County
Husband/wife team Sarah and Nick Suarez, veterans of beloved NYC/Brooklyn dining institutions such as Marlow & Sons, Romans, Gramercy Tavern, and the Modern, moved to Columbia County not long ago...
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LA-Style Dining in London, Sunshine Included
Inspired by California beach cafes, Alexander Evangelou and James Waterworth of London design firm Alexander Waterworth Interiors bring their own brand of microclimate design Hally’s, a new deli in...
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London's Sleekest Spa, Courtesy of David Chipperfield
All spas give a go at calming the senses. But London's Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre designed by David Chipperfield Architects is in a luxuriously minimalist class all its own. Crucial ingredient?...
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Berdoulat & Breakfast: A B&B in Bath
On Monday, we visited Patrick Williams of design-build firm Berdoulat at home in London—see Out with the New: Reinventing the Past in a London Remodel. Today we're exploring his family's home away from...
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Caro: A Design Shop by Way of Love in Somerset
Could the small town of Bruton in Somerset be England's answer to Marfa? Acclaimed hotel and restaurant At the Chapel opened its doors in 2008, followed last year by Hauser & Wirth's ambitious...
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Table of Contents: Urban Life
We're back in the city after a summer traveling to far-flung places; here's a week of urban living ideas to ease us back into realty. Above: Photograph of The Apartment by The Line in NYC via The...
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A Young Turk Settles Down: Lyle's Restaurant in London
Located in the 1930s-era Tea Building in Shoreditch, East London, Lyle's is the first solo venture of James Lowe, a founding member of the Young Turks band of roving chefs that won the Observer Food...
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Modern Mayberry: One Girl Cookies' Newest Brooklyn Outpost
Bakery owner Dawn Casale and designer Oliver Freundlich have been leaving an enticing trail of crumbs all over Brooklyn since 2006. The third One Girl Cookies outpost—this one in Sunset Park's...
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Urban Sanctuary: The Margot House in Barcelona
Located on Paseo de Gracia, the nine-room Margot House is the latest lodging addition to the bustling city of Barcelona. Father/daughter team Sandra and Sergio Durany named the hotel for Margot...
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Pretty in Pink: Brunette Wine Bar in the Hudson Valley
Our friends at And North clued us into the newly opened Brunette Wine Bar in downtown Kingston, New York. Owners Jamie (a graphic designer) and Tracy Kennard (a brand consultant) conceived the project...
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Laden Cafe: Food, Wine, and Design in Berlin
Proof that it pays to wander: This past June, on the last day of a quick trip to Berlin, I rounded a corner in the Mitte and made my favorite discovery of the week: Laden, a just opened (that morning)...
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Patch 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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Windy 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...
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Crypt 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...
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Archiplan 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...
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A 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...
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Lab 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...
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Moody 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...
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