Tag: luxury travel
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Mandarin Oriental Is Collecting Houses (Some of Them Monasteries)
Mandarin Oriental, the Hong Kong hotel group with a fan as its emblem, has been quietly building a collection of private homes it vets, services and rents out as if they were rooms in one of its hotels. This autumn it added another dozen, which takes the Exceptional Homes collection to 44 villas, castles, farmhouses…
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Forget the Destination — 2026’s Real Luxury Flex Is the Journey Itself
Forbes Travel Guide just told us where to go. More interestingly, they told us how to get there. For years, the luxury travel flex was simple: name-drop the hotel. The Aman. The Belmond. The Four Seasons. Job done, brunch conversation won. But Forbes Travel Guide’s second annual Edge List just quietly rewired the entire status…
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Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi finally has an opening date — here’s why it took two decades
Twenty Years, One Napkin Sketch, and a Museum the Size of a Small Airport Some restaurants make you wait forty-five minutes for a table. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi made the entire art world wait twenty years for a building. On December 11, 2026, it finally opens — and the wait, by every account, appears to…
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Neptune Boards the Yacht: When Ginori 1735 Goes to Sea
@The Ginori Terrace by Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection × Ginori 1735When a 290-Year-Old Porcelain House Sets Sail: The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection x Ginori 1735 and the New Language of Luxury at SeaDesign collaborations are reshaping what it means to travel in style — and the ocean is now the ultimate canvas. There is a quiet revolution…
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When a Hotel Checks Into Fashion — and Fashion Checks Back In
The Luxury Collection and Margherita Maccapani Missoni just raised the bar for what a hotel collaboration can actually mean There’s a moment every April when Milan stops being a city and becomes an idea. During Design Week, the streets fill with installations, the palazzos open their courtyards, and the air itself seems to vibrate at…
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The Ultimate Wardrobe Upgrade: Cunard x Micaela Erlanger
There is a specific kind of magic that only happens in the middle of the Atlantic. It’s that suspended moment between London and New York where the cell service drops, the martinis stay cold, and the dress code remains gloriously, unapologetically formal. But let’s be honest: even for the most seasoned traveler, the pressure of…