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(Grand Villa Cora) 19th Century palace hotel outside Florence

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:28:00 -0700

An exquisite 19th Century villa located just outside of Florence near Giardino Boboli, Grand Villa Cora was originally the private residence of the great Baron Oppenheim. Perhaps one of Europes most opulent hotel palaces to open in the recent decade, a meticulous renovation includes the barons famous public rooms that were inspired by his love of the Arab world and neoclassical design. The res...

(Napasai) Orient Express does Koh Samui resort

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:36:00 -0700

Napasai is home to 55 private cottages and 14 villas arranged within a hillside tropical forest, Entry-level Seaview Hill Villas are contained within freestanding pavilions with lofty ceilings, spacious architectures and plantation-style décor. Bathrooms are made of poured terrazzo with rain showers and deep-soaking tubs with occasional sea view. Top-of-the-line Beachfront Villas are big enough f...

(The Ashbee) Villa turned luxury boutique in Taormina

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:29:00 -0700

The thoroughly restored Ashbee Hotel is home to 25 guest rooms that include compact classic guest accommodations with double bed next to side table configuration and fully-upgraded monochromatic marble bathrooms. Larger suites come with two-floor layout offering bright and airy drawing rooms trimmed in powder white walls and bleached wide-plank hardwood floors with even more impressive signature s...

(Palazzo Victoria) Il Salviatino owner debuts Verona hotel

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:09:00 -0700

Plush grandeur in a historic setting, Palazzo Victoria undoubtedly has the best guest rooms in the city with floors trimmed in hand-scrapped hardwood and walls adorned in pristine wainscoting and modern stripped fabric. TVs are recessed inside delicate frames opposite large-picture windows with billowing curtains that open to a Veronese street scene outside many rooms. Granite and limestone bathro...

(Jumeirah Zabeel Saray) Trendy Ottoman-infused hotel palace on The Palm

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:26:00 -0700

Larger than it looks from afar, Jumeirah Zabeel Saray is home to a total of over 400 guest room and suites including an additional 35 private residences ideal for longer, more exclusive stays. Entry-level rooms are grand in details from intricate carved-woodwork on headboards and walls to Ottoman-style décor updated with modern striped upholstery or velvety finish. Larger suites include hardwood...

(Al Maha Desert Resort) Luxury eco-reserve outside of Dubai

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:16:00 -0700

A series of nearly 40 suites exude a safari-like styling located within a main compound and in a series of outlying building with their tented private pools and head-on views of the desert reserve. More about the removed seclusion and luxury service, this long-time conservation resort may lack the slick grandeur of properties like the Banyan Tree, but instead offers an age-old isolation that inclu...

(Five Hotel & Spa) Luxury design hotel wows Cannes

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:06:00 -0700

A total of 45-guest rooms offer a surprisingly spacious selection of entry-level Deluxe accommodations defined by floor-to-ceiling windows with a variety of town and sea views, colorful starburst flooring and freestanding beds with cantilevered canopy designed by Karen Blixen. Bold geometric patterns on select sofa and lounge furnishings either shock or awe, muted by more tasteful sconces and beds...

(La Maison Champs Elysées) Paris hotel by Maison Martin Margiela

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:00 -0700

A divided house include 40 entry-level hotel rooms that include simple queen-and king bed configurations offering a creamy color palette of neutral linen curtains, dark wood side tables and and simple slipcovered settees. A further 17 couture rooms are designed by Maison Martin Margiela with spaces like the Lost Molding Suite where crown detailing start and finish at random, like a work in progr...

(The NoMad Hotel) Jacques Garcia pens NoMad boutique hotel

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:48:00 -0700

For luxury-lovers sometimes displaced by the utilitarian style of the Ace, NoMad is a welcome hotel alternative thats a far smaller 168-rooms that includes an array of cozy classic kings to far grander Suite Royal that includes eclectic dining room and outdoor terrace large enough for entertaining. All categories feature reclaimed maple floors with vintage Heriz rugs and in-room clawfoot tubs th...

(Mio Buenos Aries) Hip eatery, lobby lounge at Recoleta hotel hotspot

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:53:00 -0700

Rooms are accessed through rustic wood doors into fashionable living spaces with integrated step-up bathrooms with sculptural bathtubs that weigh more than a ton laboriously carved by artist Mario Dasso. Rooms offer further wine accouterment like in-wall wine decanters stocked with Malbec and Sauvignon Blanc. Throughout the hotel, walls are used to profile up and coming artists emerging on the loc...

(Casa Mia) Top Italian eatery in Cannes with upstairs champagne bar

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:42:00 -0700

Tucked away on quieter, chicer Rue Marceau away from the unpredictable brashness of the Crosiette comes a glamorous Italian hideaway that puts a modern French spin on an truly delicious trattoria. In the tradition of La Dolce Vita, Casa Mia is situated just off the Croisette offering its own staircase arrival to a cozy maisonette concealing a truly glamorous two-level eatery from the same designer...

(Felix) Cannes VIP dining institution with polished new look

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:30:00 -0700

With a prime location along the Croisette, epicurean Felix continues to lure supper club diners looking for Cote dAzur glamour in a dining institution thats been famous since the 1950s. Visitors arrive to a gleaming exterior with logo-emblazed marquee that shows-off a recent facelift that preserves elements of its deco-history with two-story eatery offering main dining room, terrace and late-n...

(Gordon Ramsay Steak) Iconic chef does destination eatery inside Paris Las Vegas

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:46:00 -0700

Not the usual casino address for a grand culinary debut, The Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino is where 3-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay has taken over the resorts culinary marquee with a showstopper dining room alas worthy of the star British chef. With half hearted entrées onto the American dining scene via signatures eateries in New York and LA, Gordon Ramsay Steak transforms the form...

(Hakkasan Dubai) Hakkasan sets-up sexy supper club in Dubai

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:05:00 -0700

Its difficult to take a restaurants credo serious when it multiplies like a foodie virus across the globe. But despite omnipresent Hakkasan with its locations from London to Miami and Abu Dhabi, the Dubai installment offers a showy and glamorous dining destination located inside Jumeirah Emirates Towers. The restaurant isnt as large as youd expect in a place like Dubai, a mere 150-seats en...

(Gaucho) Pan-Latin steakhouse in Dubais DIFC

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:57:00 -0700

Over the last few years, a tide of familiar European restaurant names has made the migration to Dubais DIFC. From the owners of Londons Gaucho is a their latest Middle East installment located near the glitzy Ritz-Carlton within an indoor/outdoor dining space of businessmen and fashionistas. Its glamorous dining room is situated under a two-story ceiling with cream-colored stone floors and ope...

(The Ivy) London it-eatery does flagship in Jumeirah Emirates Tower

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:10:00 -0700

From its location along the ground floor of Jumeirah Emirates Towers in the center of Dubais commercial business district, The Ivy is a starry embassy of London culinary and social prowess. Upon first glance, the main dining room is almost identical to the West End original, all details painstakingly replicated from its wall-to-wall oak paneling to its leaded-glass windows and greenish leather c...

(The Collection) The Collection returns in historic West London warehouse

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:17:00 -0700

A former automotive showroom gets the fashionable onceover by designer Tom Dixon with a minimalist white entryway emblazoned with neon logo. Inside, its bold factory windows offset towering exposed brick walls and metallic chandelier that looms above the first floor cocktail space. Stripped concrete floors are juxtaposed to metal-topped bar and elevated seating area with overflow dining of some of...

(Unik) Argentine designer, collector does BA gourmand hotspot

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:01:00 -0700

Along one of the prettier sections of Palermo Soho visitors pass a striking architectural storefront home to the ever-hip Unik restaurant. Inside a thoroughly modern shell of dark hardwood floors, exposed concrete beams and lofty design connects a series of dining room with open kitchen, rear garden terrace and upstairs design offices by the restaurants owner Marcelo Joulia - who in addition to ...

(Aldos) Wine merchant Italian eatery in San Telmo

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:47:00 -0700

Located adjacent to the Moreno Hotel in San Telmo, this deconstructed dining room has brought a fashionable edge to a neighborhood that use to be known as the roughest in town. On first sight it reminded us of a boutique version of the casual Faena eateries, a stunning design framed within what is actually a working wine merchant is suspended in a crimson space with walls lined in shiny glass wine...

(Le Salama) Fashionable crowd, upscale decor for hip medina dining

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:48:00 -0700

In the heart of the medina just a short stroll from the famous square, Le Salama occupies a period colonial building thats quickly become one of the hottest restaurants in the area for fashionable residents. A library-inspired two-story dining room is alit in candlelight with dramatic ambiance that feels like it marched right out of the 1940s. Dark ebonized floors contrast mirrored wal...

(VIP Room Cannes) Jean-Roch does Cannes installment of Paris it-club

Fri, 11 May 2012 08:40:00 -0700

Champagne showers, VIP performances and 3am antics of the rich and famous are part of the allure at VIP Room and its pop-up location at the heart of the Cannes Film Festival. The Paris nightclub made famous by late-night proprietor Jean-Roch features showy outposts in St. Tropez and holiday pop-up in St. Barts in addition to their permanent club in Paris. Having moved in the last years from the ...

(Cherry on the Rooftop) Le Gray reopens rooftop pool club for summer season

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:57:00 -0700

Some of Beiruts sexiest single creatures do their own catwalk through the Le Gray lobby, into the glassy elevators and onto the fabulous rooftop where a true Cherry of a party awaits. Its name refers to the iconic cherry pop-art installation at the entrance to this red and white lounge that maximizes views of the midnight skyline once you can look past the showy display of Chanel logos and Balma...

(Buza) Terrace bar and lounge along Dubrovniks wall

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:46:00 -0700

Along a rocky outcropping that intersects the city walls on the south side of Dubrovnik, Buza is an all-day café that many consider the best spot to take-in evening cocktails with a sunset view. A transitory décor given the seasonal nature of this café spot, that would be literally blown away if it were January or February, is arranged in simple metal chairs that sit under a bamboo awning facin...

(AV Nightclub) Glamification of Hollywood continues with latest VIP it-bar

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:14:00 -0700

In a former-strip of Hollywood known for its rough alleyways and gay dive bars like the Spotlight, AV Nightclub takes-up residence just south of Hollywood Boulevard. From owners Jason Pollock, Matt Bendik and Tosh Berman whose cumulative works includes such nightspots as Voyeur; this opulent dance boite got a complete makeover down to the knobby front doors with interiors that mix tufted banquette...

(Smoke and Mirrors) Hidden hotel lounge offers hottest VIP scene in Hollywood

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:55:00 -0700

A nightclub all but forgotten in the rear lobby level of the Standard Hollywood alas becomes one of the hottest clubs in Hollywood with the advent of Smoke and Mirrors. A cool kid series of club nights hosted by Paul Sevigny (formerly of Paul & Andres) and NYC partner Armin Amiri master the art of a tight door and cherry picked guest list for one of the most exclusive scenes in Hollywood...

(Agency) VIP dance bar above Hollywood Boulevard

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:44:00 -0700