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A Greek Taverna on the Beach, Breeze Included
Ftelia Beach on the Greek island of Mykonos is hot, dry, and windy—very windy. Idyllic conditions for wind surfers—but what about the spectators left behind on the beach? Our photographer friend Lydia...
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An Art Gallery-Style Flower Shop in Patras, Greece
When Athens-based Point Supreme Architects were designing Aktipis, a tiny flower shop in Patras, they started with a clean slate, then built the space into a jungle-like menagerie of botanicals and...
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An Aegean Idyll on a Greek Island
On an obscure island in Greece, an interior designer creates a calm, cool oasis with whitewashed interiors and minimal furnishings. Located on the island of Tinos in the Cyclades (more famous nearby...
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Stealth Luxury at a Greek Eco Resort
Seven families with a total of 18 teenagers (many of whom had never met before) at an eco resort without shops, restaurants, nightlife, or WiFi on a remote Greek island for a week: Recipe for disaster...
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Shopper's Diary: Another Country in Marylebone, London
Over the last five years, we've watched Another Country evolve from a three-legged stool to a full furniture and housewares collection, and, now, a Marylebone, London shopfront. It’s easy to see why...
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Lush Life: Ginger & Fig in South Africa
After working 10 years in IT, Pretoria, South Africa, native Zane Figueiredo decided to shift gears. He quit his job and enrolled in Pretoria's Pru Leith Chefs Academy, from which he graduated with...
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A London Cafe Takes a Shine to Copper
Exposed copper plumbing aficionados will want to take note of London firm TwistInArchitecture’s use of copper pipes in Trade, a new restaurant and coffee shop on Commercial Street in the city’s East...
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Summer in the City: The Musket Room in Nolita
Matt Lambert, an Aukland native, New York-based restauranteur Jennifer Vitagliano, and designers Alexander Evangelou and James Waterworth of London-based Alexander Waterworth Interiors are behind the...
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The World Is His Oyster: Saltwater in Inverness, CA
Aquatic farmer and champion of native oyster restoration Luc Chamberland opened his own restaurant on Tomales Bay, north of San Francisco, to rave reviews. With the exception of Manka's Inverness...
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A Mobile Brocante in Australia
A vagabond shopper takes her wares on the road in her native Australia. When she lived in London, Kara Rosenlund (see House Call) made frequent sojourns to France in pursuit of vintage treasures and...
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Wild Beauty: Fowlers Flowers in Melbourne, Australia
Shop owners Lauren Bieber and Tom Crowe find it easy to keep an eye on what's happening at Fowlers Flowers in Melbourne, Australia, because they also own the coffee shop next door. In fact, it was...
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The Hamptons Come to Cape Cod: Salt House Inn in Provincetown
Provincetown, located at the tip of Cape Cod, has always been a bit scruffy (in a good way). Now, NYC-based hotel veterans Kevin O'Shea and David Bowd up the ante in Provincetown with Salt House Inn, a...
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Coopers Hall, an Urban Winery in Portland, Oregon
The developers who brought us Portland’s Ace Hotel are shaking things up again. Dave Schrott and Robert Sacks teamed up with Kurt Huffman and sommelier Joel Gunderson of ChefStable along with AlexEli...
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Merchant Marine: Guideboat Co. in Mill Valley, CA
Restoration Hardware founder Stephen Gordon is back with a new retail venture called Guideboat Co. (it's where Robert Redford's character in All Is Lost might shop), celebrating "ruggedness, honesty,...
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A Close Shave: A Cutting-Edge Barber Shop in Amsterdam
Is the barbershop the new boutique? Lately we've been spotting stylish hair salons with decor to rival the latest cutting-edge concept shop or art gallery (see An Artful Salon in London). Here's a...
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Kitchen Confidential: PipsDish in Covent Garden
Former BBC-producer-turned-kitchen-entrepreneur Philip Dundas knows the value of sharing food. In his father’s last years, Dundas could often be found aiding and abetting his father’s late-life passion...
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The Mill: A "Bright and Messy" SF Cafe
SF firm Boor Bridges Architecture is behind some of the most happening restaurants in the Bay Area (Trou Normand, from the Bar Agricole team, for instance). Also on their roster: Sightglass Coffee and...
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Great Dane: Hotel SP34 in Copenhagen
Whenever I travel, I relentlessly research the perfect hotel: I like to try to pass as a local, but I want to be close to the action, whether touristy or not. Nestled on a street lined with design...
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Pin to Win: Remodelista in Las Vegas Giveaway
Perhaps you've heard of Learning from Las Vegas, a 1972 tome on design lessons gleaned from the Strip by architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. (Not to mention Air Guitar...
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An Idyllic Inn in Sweden, Archipelago Edition
To be filed under: always rely on the advice of locals when traveling. My husband and I (children in tow) spent a summer vacation in Sweden a few years ago. Our first instinct was to contact our...
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