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(Hotel Punta Tragara) Capri hotel by Le Corbusier gets a facelift

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:44:00 -0700

Less brash than the Quisi and better located than the Capri Palace or JK Carpi, Punta Tragara can boast of the best real estate of any hotel on the island complete with private infinity decks with tear-inducing panoramas from a penthouse suite that could get an oh-la-la out even the most fickle jetsetter. A sophisticated design aesthetic free of trend includes bi-level guest rooms with creamy lime...

(Les Rosees) 5-room boutique hotel in epicurean Mougins

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:44:00 -0700

A 400-year old country estate is separated into five separate suites lined in original stone floors with chapel-roofline, dramatic open-flame fireplaces and hidden gardens set for high-tea on peat-gravel patios a million miles away from the festival madness. Top of the lines suites like the Suite Serguey is penned with glass roof with romantic fireplace with the Isadora suite offering a more femin...

(Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc) Ridiculously posh Antibes seaside hotel palace

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:39:00 -0700

Stays at Hotel du Cap include 30-Euro belinis at the signature hotel bar or more lavish $1000 meals at the hotels Eden-Roc restaurant along the seafront swimming pool thats literally dugout of the rocks with adjacent boat mooring for James Bond-style getaways. High rollers will want one of the villas that surround the main property, with private entrance and security detail, best of which is t...

(Villa Rasa Marina Hotel) Marina All Suites owner does Buzios pousada

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:48:00 -0700

Villa Rasa Marina is home to 35 guestrooms and suites with a an attractively rustic mix of contemporary furnishings with salvaged floors, thatch roofs and stacked-wood walls. Modern amenities like LCD TVs, gusty air conditioning and free internet Wi-Fi are combined with a luxurious quotient of Egyptian cotton linens and goose down pillows. Bathrooms have been fully renovated with rain showers, int...

(Casa DellArte) Waterfront art theme resort in Bodrum

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:19:00 -0700

Originally a private home, the Buyukkusoglu family created a 12-room hotel and later the 37-room family style property dedicated to art with everything from finger painting classed for kids to artist in residence programs aimed at grooming would-be Picassos. The Luxury Family Resort-buildings have 37 guest suites, all of which are decorated with original paintings of the contemporary masters or up...

(Kuum Hotel) Seafront design hotel for rich and beautiful

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:09:00 -0700

The guest spaces of Kuum include 66 rooms within the main hotel as well as outlying 37 apartments and evolving private residences with access to all resort amenities. Space ship chic architecture in rooms is defined by putty color floors with bold jolts of color on groovy lounge furnishings and Calder-inspired artwork. Larger suites feature open-style bathrooms with oversize soaking tubs and expos...

(Ada Hotel) Historic Turkbuku hotel with beach club eatery

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:44:00 -0700

Historic architecture and astute design choices rare to seaside resort cities make the Ada a true gem. A total of fourteen individually furnished suites are situated to maximize views of the Turkbuku Bay and surrounding hillside from private terraces and upper level balconies each with arrangement of outdoor furnishings. Room are contained within rustic spaces with vintage beam ceiling and exposed...

(Soho House Berlin) Soho brings summertime roof to Berlin

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:32:00 -0700

Rooms at Soho House Berlin are incredibly priced, 75 Euros for Soho House Members and 100 Euro non-members, offering full access to all club amenities as well as a key to the most stylish of any hotel rooms in the city. Designed by Susie Atkinson (Dean Street Townhouse, Babington House Somerset), the city view guest rooms feature reclaimed herringbone floors and red velvet upholstered sofas with t...

(Casa Camper Berlin) Spanish shoemaker does Berlin boutique

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:22:00 -0700

You can definitely judge this book by its cover, an architectural face of Bauhaus-inspired glass windows arranged with numbers from 1-68 emblazoned on the exterior bathrooms in the shade of the East German TV Tower nearby Hackescher Markt. Glass doors with a high-security vibe lead to an immediate reception where efficient Germans explain the inner workings of the hotel with its all-day, 24-hour r...

(The Weinmeister) Lux 11 owners debut new hotel pad

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:15:00 -0700

The Golden Cage, as locals are naming it due to the shimmering gold-building materials that make it a visual landmark of the neighborhood, Weinmeister also stands-out in its attempt to but a plush pillow under the head of the neighborhoods rebellious punk artist scene. At the heart of Weinmeister is a private room experience that centers on a specially made bed mounted into a chic high-back ...

(Il Riccio) Capri Palace owners build decadent beach club at Il Riccio

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:18:00 -0700

Accessible by boat along at the entrance of Grotta Azzurra (Blue Grotto) thats congested with paddleboats and kamikaze water taxis, Restaurant Il Riccio rises above he Tyrolean Sea atop a rocky perch that was acquired a few years back by the family that owns the Capri Palace Hotel & Spa. A perilous stone staircase that zigzags from the sea leads to a decadent series of six immaculately d...

(Le Moulin de Mougins) 2 star Michelin gourmand outside Cannes

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:59:00 -0700

Located away from the waterfront bling of Cannes Le Coisette, Le Moulin de Mougins is one of the most celebrated gourmands in the region with 2-star Michelin marquee restaurant with on-site hotel and culinary school. Behind a cheerful villa facade of pastel wooden shutters and overgrown garden, a stone walkway leads to the main lobby of the hotel captured in creamy colors of faded apricot and fade...

(Restaurant Macakizi) Boutique hotel with legendary waterfront dining room

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:24:00 -0700

It's known by many as a luxury boutique hotel on Bodrum's posh northern stretch of Turkbuku, but to villa-owning residents and Turkish elite it's a prized beach club restaurant in one of the area's very best locations. Sprawling-out in front of a series of two-story villas adorned with flowering bougainvillea and olive trees, an outdoor dining room is concealed under triangul...

(Fidele) Seaside dining on ocean terrace of Bodrum elite

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:18:00 -0700

Located in the chicest part of Bodrum along the Türkbükü waterfront, Fidele is the summertime outpost of the well-established Istanbul eatery. The restaurant is found along a harborside dining room laid in teak floors with white tabletops illuminated in flickering candlelight under the summer night sky. The crowd is one of the prettiest you'll find by night, a congregation of super model...

(Chez Sami) Waterfront beach club-style eatery with fleet of fisherman

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:18:00 -0700

Its located just north of Beirut along one of the prettiest stretches of waterfront to yet disrupted by a steel-and-glass high-rise thats plaguing new Beirut. Chez Sami is owned the Rizkallah family, who oversee this meticulous beach-club style eatery located behind the façade of a cobblestone building next to a sandy beach on the bay of Jounieh just a few minutes away from Casino du Liban. I...

(MA - Tim Raue) Hotel Adlon eatery and Krug Bar with Michelin pedigree

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Its one of Berlins most awarded eateries, offering one of the most formal dining rooms in the city that also just happens to be at one of the most formal of hotels. MA - Tim Raue is setting the trend for prestigious dining in one of Germanys most impressive dining spaces. Walls are sculpted of bronze panels with cashmere-covered banquettes and 1,000-year old Han Dynasty horse at the center o...

(El Bulli) One of the worlds most famous dining rooms

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:29:00 -0700

Most people know Girona for two things, namely its airport and the legendary El Bulli Restaurant. A 90-Euro taxi ride (oneway) from downtown Barcelona puts you in front of one of the most famous eating institutions in the Western World. El Bulli is the father of modern Catalan cuisine located in a destination gourmand that is equal parts restaurant and tourist destination that requires up to three...

(Lasarte) Condesa Hotel dining room by Martín Berasategui

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:35:00 -0700

Why is it that so many of Barcelonas great restaurants are in hotels? A combination of expensive space, limited opening times and chef salaries usually create a formula that only makes sense for a well-financed hotel. Opened in 2006, chef Martín Berasategui found his hotel dining room at Condes de Barcelona in one has become one of the citys best dining rooms albeit at a less-than-best city h...

(Abac) 2 star Michelin dining room by chef Jordi Cruz

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:32:00 -0700

Originally just a gourmet dining room on the edge of the citys Gothic District, ABaC became so popular that its clientele literally moved in, at least on a nightly basis. In 2008 the famed-restaurant relocated to add its own 5-star design hotel and destination spa that is one of the most fashionable addresses in the city. At the heart of the hotel is still the grand eatery helmed by Xavier Pel...

(Post Hotel Dining Room) Albertas best restaurant at Lake Louise hotel lodge

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0700

It can be a treacherous drive for anyone making the wintertime migration from Banff to Lake Louise along an often-iced highway, but so goes the road to the area's best restaurant. The rest of the year, however, its a zippy and rather picturesque jaunt through green valleys and waterways leading to the Post Hotel at Lake Louise. Far more demure than its Chateau neighbor, Albertas only Rela...

(Quisi Bar) Elegant drinking lounge and Krug Room at Grand Quisi

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:00 -0700

It would be easy to dismiss the bar at the Quisi as a touristy drinking joint of camera-ops and brash tourists in bad shorts and unsightly sandals. But for every one or two brazenly unfashionable guests sipping the cheapest wine by the glass and conversing endlessly over the bill, there sits the super-fashionable model or yachting oligarch how uses this lounge as a sort of downtown social club whe...

(Bye Bye Baby) New dance bar attracts summertime hip-hop following

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:00 -0700

As if concealed behind a picturesque series of nondescript windows with logo-embalzoned marquee that sits dark for most of the day as tourists crisscross the island from the Marina Grande to the far more chic Marina Piccola, Bye Bye Baby exploded onto the Carpi nightlife scene in 2009 and has since offered a nightly hip-hop following of football stars and hip-hop artists that stake-out the club fo...

(Number Two Club) Capri disco bar with summertime dance scene

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:23:00 -0700

For the most part Capri is a quiet and tame island when it comes to nightlife, idling away the colder months of the year in cozy pubs and coffee bars that surround the main square. From early June through mid-September clubs like Number 2 (from the owners of Rome's La Cabala Club) invade the scene beginning the seasons with weekend clubs before expanding nightly during late-July and August ...

(Palm Beach Discoteque) Summer Club at Cannes Palm Beach Casino

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:05:00 -0700

Unless youre in Vegas, the last place youll likely want to spend your nightlife is in a casino. But youll likely want to add just one more exception with Cannes Palm Beach Casino that is home to a 2-month summertime disco that is luring the hottest DJs and performers from Roger Sanchez and Steve Aoki to Fat Joe and Pharrell Williams to its slot-filled, Baccarat game playing, card table lad...

(Halikarnas Disco) Lavish outdoor dance club with a reputation for foam

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:33:00 -0700

Halikarnas boasts of things like being "the largest open-air disco in the world" and "probably the most beautiful." But they're not the ones raving, usually its editors of hoity-toity newspapers like the Evening Standard and various versions of Eastern European Vogue that have coined this nightclub as a better version of Pacha located in Bodrum. The club is located in ...

(Tausend) Fashion fueled dance scene in Berlin Mitte

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:26:00 -0700

The popularity of Berlin in recent years has led to the gentrification of many underground dance and afterhour scenes that go from artsy and hot to touristy and crap within the period of an editorial cycle. Still not great at managing a VIP door, Berlin tries to be a friendly first-come, first inside city where guest lists are non-existent and socialism reigns at the door. But Tausend is one of th...

(Eclipse) Boujis London brings VIP bling to W Barcelona

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:11:00 -0700

Its been a city icon even before the crane came down atop the iconic sail-shaped W Hotel on the Barcelona waterfront. Located on the 26th floor of the W Hotel Barcelona, Eclipse is a nightlife concept brought to the Spanish seaside via the UK owners of ever-posh Boujis (guests Prince Harry, Kate Middleton) and their Eclipse nightclub with two outlets in London. While one would think it wise to...

(Walliser Stube) Chateau wine bar and fondue palace

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:48:00 -0700

Beyond the tourist-packed lobby that is the Chateau Lake Louise, Walliser Stube is one of the area's top wine bars with a fondue presentation that could rival the best in Switzerland. Especially fun with a large group, the bar and adjacent Saloon Bar and lounge are lined in large-pane windows framing views of Lake Louise and mountainside in the elegant backdrop of a wood-paneled room with v...

(Tartana Club) Italys only nightclub with a real active volcano

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:16:00 -0700

It's a long ferry ride to get there and likely once you're there you'll wonder what all the fuss is about Stromboli. Sure your perched along the shores of one of the world's most active volcano and the rock formations and views and spectacular, but the island literally sleeps away seasons in between rockstar visits by the likes of Madonna, Mariah Carey and the Cavalli'...

(Hotel Raya Discothèque) Outdoor DJ terrace at Hotel Raya on Panarea

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:44:00 -0700

For three-quarters of the year its a slab of oceanfront concrete that sits empty with its glass-enclosure and empty bar that alludes to the dance spirits of warmer, busier months. Located along the rear of Hotel Raya on a pretty bluff of grassy hilltop and row of sunloungers with colorful umbrellas, this makeshift dance floor comes to life from mid-July through August as the property and its fam...

(Beijing Scitech) Christian Lacoix, Galliano, Lagerfeld in Beijing

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:44:00 -0700

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(Sentido) Stylish home store on the beach in Jose Ignacio

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:13:00 -0700

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(Kurimanzutto) Former timber yard is one of top capital galleries

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:25:00 -0700

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(Magistral Concept Store) Mexican fashion designers merged with global icons

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:16:00 -0700

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(Ecole Ritz Escoffier) Learn to cook or bake on a weekend stay in Paris

Mon, 10 May 2010 16:45:00 -0700

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(Spree) Montmartre department store for fashion elite

Mon, 10 May 2010 10:59:00 -0700

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(Blu Mediterraneo Spa) Acqua di Parma Spa in Porto Cervo

Tue, 04 May 2010 13:56:00 -0700

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(Gump's) Local SF boutique department store home

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:48:00 -0700

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(Claska Gallery & Shop) Claska gallery and shop in Tokyos Shibuya

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:19:00 -0700

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(Bokja) 50s design meets Beirut chic in Saifi Village

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:31:00 -0700

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(Ultra-pools dominate Vegas summer) Luxury pool clubs land at top resorts

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:10:00 -0700

Some credit the trend to Mandalay Bays beach wave pool and Moorea Beach Club that brought European-style sunbathing to a mass-audience. Others insist that it was the weekly Hard Rock pool party called Rehab, thats a margarita-induced pool party of muscle dudes and girlfriends that dont mind the occasional waterborne chicken-fight.

But adult-only pools, or ult...

(St. Barth's leading villa rental specialist) The hotel alternative whilst in St. Barth's

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:31:00 -0800

We came to know the West Indies Management Company, or just WIMCO, after searching for a room in St. Barth's during the Christmas-to-New Year's madness. A room at the Eden Rock and even the Le Sereno was about to cost a staggering $1500 per night, not even a suite, but for which I was willing to pay just be part of all the warm weather ridiculousness that makes the island so much fun dur...

(Stars dominate Vegas New Years Eve) Top-10 Events for Vegas New Years

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:45:00 -0800

This year, more than ever before, the city's biggest casinos and nightclubs are relying on A-List celebrities and entertainment to lure in profitable big-spending revelers for VIP packages and tickets that cost upwards of $300 to $15,000. Coinciding with the city's biggest nightclub openings in over a year, Haze at Aria and Vanity at the Hard Rock, here's our take wha...

(Moncler: The Ultimate Snowy Catwalk) Moncler Gamme Rouge does sequins on the slopes

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:17:00 -0800

If following Olympic fashion is too Green-run proletariat than look no further than Moncler, the Italian-owned French retailer 48% owned by Carlyle Group, for this season's ultimate ski fashion. With what ...

(JetSetReport on Twitter) Tweets from JetSetReport Saved Our Life

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:49:00 -0700

Jill and Jenny looked forward to their summer vacation on Bodrum all year long.

Jenny recently lost her job and spent her severance check on a new Chloe bathing suit while Jenny kept quiet about the raise she got and new Chanel sunglasses she claimed were from Bluefly.com, but not really. Jenny and Jill said nothing to the other, but tweeted, "This vacation bet...

(Can We Be Facebook Friends?) Darling, Join us and tell only your chicest friends....

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:19:00 -0700

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In attempt to keep you even more up-to-date on the hottest hotels, best nightclubs and hippest restaurants we invite you to join

(New era of cheap-chic travel) Summer Vacation Trends For Recession Stars

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:50:00 -0700

Whether August on Capri or a July jaunt to Corsica, in previous years you could afford to wait till mid-June to decide your summer vacation. Those were also the days when you didn't mind paying out-of-pocket for Business or flexing your Marquis Card for a round trip ticket to paradise. But with the change in times, more and more people are resorting back to their frequent ...

(Chase Away Your Recession Blues) Where the Stars Party - End of Winter

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:31:00 -0800

It's not your usual parade of Winter Getaways on the slopes of Courchevel and beach clubs of St. Bart's. Instead the winter of 2009 is defined by frugality, an across-the-globe retraction of gluttony indicting anyone who dares to splurge, indulge or partake in the glutinous ways of the early 2000s. Sure many can still afford that jet share and yacht bash in Punta but good luck with c...

(Viva la Recessionista) Here Comes Populism's New It-Girl

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:23:00 -0800

The movement first became tangible during the holiday shopping season of 2008. Nowhere but Fred Segal, LA's ritziest fashion boutique, where the likes of Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham arrive in their convertible Bentley's and spend the afternoon shopping the store's second floor designer emporium.

But this December was different, in lieu of packed par...

(Celebrity Burials - Worlds Most-Famous Cemeteries) Dont let the fanfare stop with the funeral

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:43:00 -0700

Gary lived a glamorous life. He married three times, was the most-famous graduate from his Havard Business class and managed to accumulate a vast wealth coveted by distant relatives and diligent employees. With homes on Park Avenue and Hyde Park, he spent his final days contemplating the hereafter in the South of France fully ready to return to the states ala Med Jets and assume his place wi...