Rosewood Hotels & Resorts made a big splash in Mexico with Las Ventanas al Paraiso in Los Cabos which is a stunning beachfront resort that in the decade since has become an icon in the world of luxury hotels. In December, the company finally “soft opened” its second property in the country, Rosewood Mayakoba on the Riviera Maya.
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It is the funkiest, most space-age bar in London. Years ago it was a private house at Number 20 Portman Square for the Countess of Home by the 18th-century genius Robert Adam. When the club took over the equally august house next door, they commissioned Zaha Hadid to design the new bar and lounge (along with a reception desk). For an architect who often struggles to have her ambitious projects realized, this was a chance to complete a perfect miniature within an ideal space — a 250-year-old backdrop created in an era when the grammar of architectural form was just being written.
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This designed hotel is called Mama Shelter, where the rooms start at 79 euros, and is the latest favorite address for usually spendthrift editors having to watch their expenses. During the couture show in January, it was no-vacancy hot spot, and for this month only the 299 euro rooms are still available. But Mama Shelter isn’t exactly an exercise in deprivation: every room comes with its own iMac, free WiFi and, of course, all the gold leaf and Lucite you’d expect from Starck.
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Uxua Casa Hotel is a compound of nine renovated houses, two restaurants and a spa opened by Wilbert Das, the creative director of Diesel, in the Brazilian fishing village of Trancoso. Uxua is not being billed as any kind of extension of the Diesel lifestyle, and it’s clearly not Italy-comes-to-Brazil. It’s not even Brazil-goes-global — the houses, some dating to the 1500s, were redone by local builders using traditional construction techniques and recycled materials.
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The new Ace Hotel is already shaping up to be Southern California’s boho playground du jour. The hotel has 180 rooms with denim headboards and things like vintage furniture and retro turntables with “The Red-Headed Stranger” on vinyl. At the bar, you’re greeted by Charlie, who handmake his excellent fizzy blackberry soda and Black Sheep Ale. The hotel’s restaurant, King’s Highway, used to be a Denny’s — and in some ways, it still is, but with vegetarian tamales for brunch. (Get there before noon or they’ll probably be sold out).
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The Cavallino Bianco hotel is a four star superior hotel. This is a quiet site in the heart of Romagna will allow you to easily reach the most renowned venues in the area: Bologna is 50 km away, Rimini 60 km, Ravenna 30 km and Forlì just 10 km.
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These days there are many resorts aim at gay and lesbian travelers. That is why the new Villa Cappelli, off the ancient Roman road, Via Appia, in the southern Italian region of Puglia, is such a welcome surprise. Paul Cappelli, the founder of the Manhattan advertising agency The Ad Store, puchased the property in his grandmother’s hometown, Terlizzi, in 2003, and set to work transforming the 14th-century villa and surrounding terra-cotta-roofed farmhouses into a luxurious retreat.
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Recently Edinburgh have boasted its image from a staid academic town to a cultural hot spot with lively festivals, robust nightlife and, yes, even fashion. The most attention-getting part of that transformation is the Missoni, a 136–room hotel opened this year by the Italian fashion house in the very center of town.
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Madeleines Madteater is a kind of interactive dinner performance staged every few months in the neighborhood of Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. There were lyrical strings and a dramatic areas of light and a dancer undulating on the serving dais, and it was all ritual. That is the point. It’s art you experience with all five senses, the most satisfying performance in town. Madteater is precisely as its name translates: food theater. The project, is a collaboration between the chef Mette Sia Martinussen and the film production designer Nikolaj Danielsen, along with a board of directors that includes an anthropologist, a psychotherapist, a couple of artists and a neurology professor conducting research into the senses. But this is no gimmick; it’s still very much about the food.
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The Lodge has been carefully designed to blend in with the beauty of the surrounding rainforest, while views out over the blue waters of Weary Bay are a reminder of its unique coastal location. Bloomfield Lodge is a Small Luxury Hotels of the World property. Bloomfield can lay claim to be one of Australia’s most remote luxury resort.
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