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Temple & Chapon: Phantom Relics in Neo-Gothic Flesh
Dining at Temple & Chapon unfolds as a neo-Gothic reverie in the Marais, where mid-century Manhattan grit meets ecclesiastical hush, turning every meal into a wanderer's relic-strewn pause
Tadashi Kawamata for Maison Ruinart: shaping reclaimed wood in the vineyards of Champagne
Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata brings three permanent installations in salvaged wood to Maison Ruinart's estate in Reims, as part of the Conversations with Nature curatorial programme
Dries Van Noten on his foundation in Venice and The Only True Protest Is Beauty
A conversation on planning with water in mind at Fondazione Dries Van Noten as The Only True Protest Is Beauty maps 200+ works across 20 rooms at Palazzo Pisani Moretta—maintenance...
Six months of infusion, handcrafted oak barrels: Amouage’s challenge to fast perfumery
Renaud Salmon left New York for Muscat, banned the word "launch" from his vocabulary, and started ageing perfume concentrates: the Creative Director of Amouage on the Essences collection
At Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli in Verona, dinner starts three centuries ago
Roman remains beneath the dining room, Patricia Urquiola upstairs, Giancarlo Perbellini in the kitchen and Hemingway in the walls — the many lives of Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli in Verona
That modernist building challenged the Renaissance skyline
W Florence occupies a rationalist-modernist building that spent decades being controversial. The design references Florence's history—the Medici, the gardens, the arches
The hotel where Proust’s obsessions finally got a room of their own
In the Marais, Maison Proust has turned the Recherche into a place you can sleep in — Belle Époque salons, a bar run by a Ritz legend, and a spa...
Banyan Tree Kyoto, a hotel built on Higashiyama’s sacred edge
On Ryozen hill, fifty-two rooms sit above a hot spring rising at 40°C, wrapped around a bamboo Noh stage and stone walls
