Category Archives: Travel
L’Arc Paris
L’Arc Paris, Restaurant-Bar & Club, has been open for only four months and the Club has already become the place where you go if you want to be with the chic, the famous and the beautiful. Mostly, you go there to be seen. At the Restaurant, chef Antony Germani (of L’Atelier Joël Robuchon) presides over [...]
Mandarin Oriental Hotel – Barcelona
When in Barcelona, you will want to check into one of the several new or refurbished and distinctively cool hotels that have opened there recently. Among them, W Barcelona, located on La Barceloneta and designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, and the swish apartment residences of El Palauet that we featured in October. Credit: thecoolhunter.net
Zai for Bentley Skis
Zai has created the Bentley of Skis, literally. Designed in collaboration with Bentley, the Zai Supersport is a limited edition ski constructed out of a combination of carbon fiber refinforced thermoplastic, natural rubber, and chrome steel, which are all being used for the first time in a [...]
The Estate at Turks and Caicos
Today’s estate is an idyllic retreat in the Turks and Caicos Islands. This home is on 2.5 acres with an additional .68 acre available. It is located less than two miles from the Grace Bay Beach area which offers access to restaurants, golf, casinos, resorts, shops and more. This home is gated and has its [...]
Hotel de Sers – Paris
Hôtel de Sers in Paris exemplifies a building that fits magnificently in its new role as a hotel because the current owners’ expensive and extensive renovation retained the initial feel and the structural bones of the original mansion, and managed to insert today’s touches in a way that does not feel like a pretentious afterthought. [...]
Dubai’s Luxury Metro
In Dubai, 30,000 workers labored over the course of four years to produce the city’s first metro system. Opened to the public in September, the $7.64 billion budget is double what developers expected, but the automated system is the longest in the world, with over 52 kilometers of track and 29 stations. Monumental air-conditioned pedestrian [...]
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