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Communist Era-Inspired Furniture in Beijing
A while back a reader sent in a tip about Lost & Found, a store in the Chaoyang district of Beijing owned by ex-pat American Paul Gelinas and local Xiao Mao. Since then, the pair has expanded their...
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On Tap: Beer with Chinese Herbs at Beijing's First Microbrewery
Brew enthusiasts Carl Setzer and Liu Fang started Great Leap Brewing with the intent of starting a Chinese craft beer revolution. That was four years ago and since then the couple's Great Leap Brewing...
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Spotlight: David Weeks' New Tribeca Studio
We have been following David Weeks' work for years (and buying his light fixtures: I own three of them and Julie convinced me to get her one, too, at one of David's sample sales). His latest venture...
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A Tiny Japanese Udon Bar, Brit Style
Koya, a Japanese noodle bar just off of Old Compton Street in London's Soho has us convinced that their isn't much more to life than quality udon, Ercol chairs, and chalkboards. The restaurant is split...
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Luxury Redux at the Grand Hotel in Milan
The Grand Hotel et de Milan has been a cultural fixture since 1863, when architect Andrea Pizzala designed the neo-Gothic building near Milan's La Scala opera house in the center of the city. The hotel...
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LA Confidential: A Visit to the Newest Ace Hotel
Last week, on a snow escape in LA, my mother, sister, and I made a pilgrimage downtown to visit Dosa and inspect the overnight gentrification we'd been hearing about. "Well, this is a bit of ghost...
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A Labor of Love: A Romantic Inn in France
A onetime medieval French settlement is transformed into a bucolic bolthole by a couple from Amsterdam. Located in Le Perche, a national park in the Basse-Normandie region, a few hours outside Paris,...
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Sex in the Stacks: Play Cafe and Lounge in NYC
Julie had just arrived in New York last fall, and we were en route to the office when we ducked into a nice-looking coffee place. "What's that library?" she said, peering through closed glass doors in...
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Escape to Love: Hotel Amour in Paris
Set in a former brothel in Pigalle, Hotel Amour is one of those low-key Paris hotspots that gets whispered from one style setter to the next (beware: during fashion weeks, you might not be able to get...
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French Industry at No. 40 in Copenhagen
Danes seeking a break from honeyed wood and soft Gustavian grays can find refuge at No. 40 Copenhagen. The ultimate retro-modern man cave, the shop presents an eclectic array of French vintage and...
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The Most Happening Bar in Copenhagen, Flames Included
Copenhagen night-life impresario Rasmus Shepherd-Lomborg recently unveiled Lidkoeb, a bar that spans three floors of an 18th-century apothecary brick building, with original wooden beams and thick...
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Shopper's Diary: Black Concept Store in Copenhagen
Anne Black, one of Denmark's star ceramic artists, recently opened a concept shop in Copenhagen featuring an idiosyncratic mix of wares (furniture from e15, home accessories from Moormann, and linens...
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Slow Ceramics from Tortus Copenhagen
Hidden off a quiet courtyard in the heart of Copenhagen's bustling shopping district, you'll find the calm oasis of Tortus Copenhagen. Here, housed in a 19th-century truss-style building, master...
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Island-to-Table Dining in Copenhagen
Nicolai Norregaard grew up on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, where he learned to love wild carrots, lichen, green strawberries, and other delicacies of the New Nordic cuisine. His...
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Paté Paté in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District
On a trip to Copenhagen a few years back, I made a pilgrimage to Paté Paté, located in the city's once-gritty, now-fashionable Kødbyen meatpacking district. A venture started by brothers Kenn and Dan...
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A Slope-Side Bar Inspired by the National Park Service, Aspen Edition
When New York-based multidisciplinary firm Reunion embarked on the redesign of Colorado's Wildwood Snowmass Hotel, they enlisted their friends Benjamin Luddy and Makoto Mizutani of Scout Regalia as...
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The Bauhaus as Your House
According to The Wired World 2014, this is the year of the Experiential Economy, which means “doing" rather than "buying". For design acolytes, that translates into visiting the Bauhaus School in...
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Goods for the Study: McNally Jackson Store in New York
All bookstores stand at the ready with reading suggestions. Soho independent bookseller McNally Jackson goes a step further: it fully imagines the perfect setting for getting work done. Goods for the...
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For Rent: A Ski Cabin by a World-Renowned Swiss Architect
Care to stay in the home of internationally renowned Swiss architect (and Pritzker Prize winner) Peter Zumthor? Architectural enthusiasts are in luck: Zumthor recently started renting out Unterhus, one...
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A Soho Dream Loft (Where Everything Is for Sale)
Online boutique The Line—purveyors of simple, soignee (and undeniably pricey) fashion, furniture, and even toothpaste—have opened The Apartment, a remodeled Soho loft furnished with the site's...
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