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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
Royal Champagne: the Architecture of Balance in the Vineyards
Reopened in 2018 above Épernay, Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa occupies a former post house and operates with low-impact architecture, LED lighting, water-saving systems and extensive waste sorting
Urban continuity and residential reuse at the former Teatro Comunale in Florence
From historic theater to serviced residential neighborhood, Starhotels Collezione anchors a broader urban regeneration project in the Corso Italia–Via Solferino block in Florence
