Casa Arca is San Miguel de Allende’s most storied boutique hotel, a Michelin-recognised property housed in the iconic UNESCO-listed Casa Cohen, with handcrafted suites, a rooftop terrace, and a restaurant where Mexican and Mediterranean flavours merge.
There’s a particular confidence in naming a restaurant after the sea in a landlocked city, and then delivering on it. Casamarena brings both of Mexico’s coasts to one Polanco table.
Most perfume houses sell a mood. Xinú, the Mexican perfume house founded in Mexico City, sells a plant, then spends years working out how to bottle it.
Bruno Barbato moves effortlessly between backstage, frontstage, and street culture: the spaces where Barcelona’s real creative heart pulses. A Barcelona-based creative, performer, and makeup artist with a sharp aesthetic eye and an intuitive connection to the city’s fashion and beauty underground, Bruno is a true insider.
Michail doesn’t do Athens for the tourists. He moves through it the way someone does when the city is genuinely theirs: knowing which taverna earns a birthday dinner, which rooftop holds its own against the Acropolis view, and which Kolonaki side street hides the best espresso in the neighbourhood. If you want the version of Athens that takes years to find, this is where you start.
The world’s smartest fibre, according to the brand that’s built an entire ethos around it. PAKA Apparel is turning ancient Andean alpaca-weaving traditions into cult-favourite outdoor wear, one handcrafted piece at a time.
In the Psyrri neighbourhood of Athens, there’s a concept store that feels less like a shop and more like a living idea: Where ancient Greek heritage and contemporary design share the same shelf, and where the smell of freshly baked bread drifts through a space full of objects worth pausing over.
Bofill Taller de Arquitectura’s Centre de Congrès in Rabat pairs a circle and a square into a campus building that welcomes rather than confronts.
A former City solicitor turned mosaicist, Francesca Busca builds every piece from waste, hairdresser’s foils, bottle caps, fruit nets, and discarded fishing gear.
The Mido Multifort TV Big Date revives a softly rectangular TV case from the 1973 archive, a form that still reads differently on the wrist today. It arrives in rose gold PVD with a midnight blue gradient dial, applied indices, and a big date complication at twelve.
23 Hotel is Medellín’s most celebrated design boutique: a tropical architectural statement in El Poblado where garden balconies, Colombian craftsmanship, and rooftop city views combine for an unforgettable stay.
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Barcelona has no shortage of hotels chasing the postcard version of the city. The Hoxton, Poblenou plays a different game: set in the city’s industrial heart, it trades polish for something looser, cooler, more lived-in.
Ten pools where the water disappears into the view: from a Bali clifftop to 57 storeys above Singapore. Here’s where to find the edge worth chasing.
In the cobblestone hills of Santa Teresa, Casa Geranio is one of Rio de Janeiro’s most quietly extraordinary places to stay: a five-suite boutique hotel where neoclassical architecture meets considered modern design, and the city skyline unfolds from a hilltop pool.
The Omega Seamaster Bond and Spectre collection asks a question most watch collectors never expect to face: which version of yourself do you want to wear? This latest release presents both impulses within a single collection of six Seamaster Diver 300M timepieces.
The best backpacks do not shout. They simply outlast everything else in your wardrobe … and look good doing it.
Gul Sohrab Studio is the India-based label quietly rewriting the rules of getting dressed: unisex, handloom garments made to order, designed to be worn freely and to age beautifully over time.
Across the city’s most characterful neighbourhoods, from the sun-drenched streets of Chueca to the literary lanes of Barrio de las Letras, a new generation of makers, curators, and collectors is breathing fresh life into one of Spain’s oldest crafts.
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