As anyone familiar with Mondrian hotels knows, understatement is not the chain’s defining trait. From outside – and especially at night – the group’s latest property in Doha resembles something dreamed up by Hayao Miyazaki, and this hallucinogenic quality continues within. The 270-key property comes with seven in-house eateries, including the craft beer and burgers spot Hudson Tavern, Japanese […]
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Interdisciplinary Australian firm Eness has designed JEM, an interactive space of contemplation and calm. Placed at the heart of Flowstate, a recently revitalised creative space at Brisbane’s South Bank, the installation responds to user interaction. The 32 LED-lined arms utilise a 360-degree laser tracking system, replying to movement through pulsating, multi-coloured lighting phrases and rhythmic […]
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A WELLNESS JOURNEY Treating yourself to some spa therapy is often a part of any holiday, but a stay at The Barai in Thailand’s Phuket is centred around the peace and calm of spa treatments. The lavish spa accommodation was designed by famous Thai architect Khun Lek Bunnag, who drew inspiration from a visit to […]
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WITH IZE Everything a sophisticated traveller could ever want can be found at IZE Seminyak: stylish architecture, beautifully considered interior decor, the expertly curated Meja restaurant, which offers a mixture of Balinese and European cuisines for breakfast, brunch and dinner, and Single Malt, the resident bar with equally-delicious decor and selection of the finest whiskies. Most of all, […]
BURNING MAN The organisers eschew calling it a festival. It’s festive, to say the least. But Burning Man is simply Burning Man, an annual event that celebrates art, human relationships and our adherence to natural impulse. The event has its own rich history: It started on a beach near San Francisco with 20 people celebrating […]
MONACO? NO, I SAID PORTO MONTENEGRO Montenegro is starting to wake up, or maybe the rest of the world is awakening to Montenegro. As the small, shy sibling on the Balkan peninsular, Montenegro remained in relative global obscurity until it gained independence in 2006. It turns out they have a good thing going in Montenegro, and […]
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Saint-Tropez has evolved spectacularly, more correctly, garishly, since the ‘50s, when the seductive Brigitte Bardot and wellheeled Gary Cooper brought celestial Hollywood glamour to the tiny French fishing port. But like Monte Carlo, the Saint-Tropez of 2010 offers more in the way of teeming hordes of tourists, crude, bling-like excess and oligarch super-toys, such as […]
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